Thomcat64

First-home buyer in NZ and I'm a bit confused by advice from my solicitor.

My offer currently includes:

Finance condition LIM condition Builder's report condition Solicitor approval condition

My solicitor has recommended removing the finance, LIM and builder's report conditions and relying solely on a very broad solicitor approval condition.

His reasoning is that the solicitor approval clause gives more flexibility if I need to pull out, whereas the other conditions require more justification.

What I'm struggling to understand is this:

If the solicitor approval condition is staying in the agreement regardless, what is the downside of also keeping the finance, LIM and builder's report c

First-home buyer in NZ and I'm a bit confused by advice from my solicitor.

My offer currently includes:

Finance condition LIM condition Builder's report condition Solicitor approval condition

My solicitor has recommended removing the finance, LIM and builder's report conditions and relying solely on a very broad solicitor approval condition.

His reasoning is that the solicitor approval clause gives more flexibility if I need to pull out, whereas the other conditions require more justification.

What I'm struggling to understand is this:

If the solicitor approval condition is staying in the agreement regardless, what is the downside of also keeping the finance, LIM and builder's report c

I recently picked up a used DSL20 combo - and it sounds great for the most part, however I can't seem to get any grit out of the Classic Gain channel, even with the gain dimed. It does get a bit more compressed and percussive with the volume up as well, but it's still basically clean.

Watching reviews and clips online, it seems I should be able to get a fair bit of grit from the classic channel, but it's just not there. I'm using a Greco Les Paul with humbuckers as well, so i don't think it's an output issue from the guitar.

The previous owner did apparently replace the output tubes with JJ EL34s if that could have something to do with it?

I’m tired, and I can’t keep going in a loop of trying to express myself only for “normal” people to somehow interpret what I’ve said as the complete opposite.

How is that people can hear “we should meet up later when I’m finished with x and you’re finished y” as “I want to be alone.”

How is it that people can hear “just do x, y, z” and come back with, “oh, by X, y, z, I assumed you meant A, b, c.” What I am even meant to do in that situation aside from be utterly baffled?

Sorry if this more of a vent post than anything, but I could really use advice. It’s beginning to feel like people make a game out of how absurdly they can misinterpret clear communication no matter what I do.

Hi there! This is probably a bit of a dumb question, but I’ll be in Austin for a few days as a tourist, and there’s a show in San Marcos I’d love to attend on the night I get there. Is Uber/Taxi available to go that far? Or would there be a better method?

Thanks in advance - I’m from a small country gauging what’s reasonable/what works here is kinda confusing.

Weird question, and may not be the place - but I have an old radio technicians Test amplifier I'm converting to use for guitar, because well, it sounds good. It uses 2 OC72 and 3 OC71n transistors, and apparently puts out 3W. I've only ever worked with pedal circuits so my understanding of how this thing works is limited at best, but I have made negative ground fuzz pedals w/ inverters in the past.

It seems to run off +9V; as in, when I received it it ran off of 6x C Batteries, which I measured at +9v. I've now subbed this for a standard wall-wart input, and it runs fine using any of my pedal power supplies. Measuring the transistors I get + voltage readings.

However, I am also measuring