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The Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster was an effects unit made for guitarists in the 1960s. Its function was two-fold: to increase the signal strength of the guitar going into the amplifier, and to increase tones at the high end of the spectrum (a treble booster). It was the first such effects unit.

The need for a treble booster arose in the mid-1960s since many guitarists were using Gibson Les Paul guitars with Marshall and Vox amplifiers, a combination that, especially given the limitations of the PA systems of the time, tended to produce a dark, muddy sound. A pre-amplifier that also boosted treble proved a solution.

Did you know ...

... that Noise pollution is dumping sound into the environment, regardless of the effects on neighbors and on nature?
... that the American Civil War (1861-1865) resulted in a Union victory and emancipation of the slaves?
... that a coil tap is a feature of some humbucking pickups that allows half of the pickup to be bypassed, in effect allowing it to act as a single coil pickup?

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Reality is about more than getting all the facts right. No one understands this more than artists.

"It is important to realize that the expressive photograph (the "creative" photograph) or the informational photograph does not have directly proportional relationship to what we call reality. We do not perceive certain values in the subject and attempt to duplicate them in the print. We may simulate them, if we wish to, in terms of reflection density values, or we may render them in related values of emotional effect. Many consider my photographs to be in the "realistic" category. Actually, what reality they have is in their optical-image accuracy; their values are definitely "departures from reality." The viewer may accept them as realistic because the visual effect may be plausible, but if it were possible to make direct visual comparison with the subjects, the differences would be startling." - Ansel Adams

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True freedom begins when you stop running from your own reflection. When you no longer reject the parts of yourself you do not understand. When you embrace the duality within, the contradictions, the complexity of your being. Only then can you move beyond illusion, beyond limitation.
– Dame Dove Hepburn (1980–2025)

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