Several years ago, I was really into playing the bass. The playing styles of Les Claypool, Geddy Lee, Arthur Barrow, and Victor Wooten inspired the heck out of me. So I bought a few basses and a couple of amps. One amp in particular, a Blackstar 3W practice amp, ended up being one of my most used amplifiers (with both bass and guitar). Last year, the input jack stopped working entirely, and I thought the device was completely dead. I turned out to be wrong about that, so I repurposed it into something new.