Recent content by kilgoretrout5447

Guh. This amp sucks. The lead dress is jive, there's noise everywhere, and now, the whole damn chassis is microphonic. It's not the preamp tubes. I tested them all in a valve jr chassis that i keep around just for testing "good tubes" for microphonics. I tried prolly 20 different tubes in v1...

I have a 2016 T model explorer with stock 496/500 set. It crushes my ec1000 with a jb/59 set. So much hotter and fatter. Before I got it, I didn't know that the input light on my kemper could go red. It can get pretty tight with some tweaking as well. Only thing I might consider swapping...

http://www.thetubestore.com/lib/thetube ... ematic.pdf There's the schem. I havn't pulled any tubes to see whisch stage it is in, (forehead slap) but I may have found the issue. It's definitely in the pre tho, as ot responds to the MV. I gotta dig in more, but I scoped the plate supplies...

No dice. This is F**king ridiculous. Also, V1 was insanely microphonic. I swapped it with a normal JJ ecc83, and it's better than it was microphonics wise, but did nothing for the hiss. Low noise and microphonics my ass. I have no idea where else to go with this. After the pre and power...

Thanks all. Much appreciated. I changed all of the electrolytics along the B+ supply, all of the plate, grid, and cathode resistors to 2W or better (Some were a tight fit), used jj ecc803s, with the low noise/microphonics option from tube depot, moved the ground on the power tubes to share the...

Right on. What about the bypass caps, and the cathode resistors? Anything to be had there?

I'm working on a Laney GH50L for a client that wants less noise. There's nothing wrong with the amp, he just wants less noise in an amp that is inherently noisy. IMO, these just have a somewhat high noise floor. Especially with drive engaged. I'm going to replace all of the preamp tubes with...

Old post, but I have these documents now if anybody needs them. Worked like a charm.

Nevermind. Somebody snagged it. Dammit, I need to learn to impulse buy. Balls!

Played a ceriatone chupacabra once. Very nice. Marshall tones and then some fosho.

Evening folks. I just spotted a hiwatt d100l for sale, and I'm wondering what people think of em. What do they sound like? Are they desireable? What are they worth? I know the vintage ones are extremely valuable, but this one is an 80s model, needs fixing, and the tolex is kinda beat. Anybody...

+1 on classictone for marshalls. Did one on a dsl 100 and it was night and day.

If you change your mind, I make custom faceplates. I'd need to measure and draw the original plate. If you don't have art, I can design it with your input. Let me know. Here's one on a 5150 I redid. [img]https://i.imgur.com/JnnrFcH.jpg[img]

The orange terror bass 1000 is a beast and sounds great (like an orange). Tube preamp with a class D SS output section. It's a smidge bigger than a lunchbox head. Discontinued, but they can still be had used for a decent price. For all tube stuff, I just had a peavey vb-3 that was...

Hey guys. I'm retubing one of these little fellas, and I understand that they can take basically any 6L6/EL34 variants. However, reverb has retube kits for it with 6550s, and KTs as well. Is this a good idea? The 6550s are juice hogs for sure, as well as KT 66s and 88s. Can the trannys...