Finally opened up my Marshall Randy Rhoads amp.....

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Surprised at how clean the workmanship is...has resistors on the tube sockets for biasing, must have been to make tube changes on the road quicker. The bias was right on too. Svet EL34's, JJ 12ax7 in V1 (not now of course, old Mullard now) and chinese in V2 and V3....Ruby Gold Filter caps (not sure why on this), Dagnall OT and shielded input wires. Another cool thing is threaded inserts for machine screws to attach the back panel.

Hopefully these pics show up, still not sure on the mac pic hosting yet.

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Yes, the pics are showing up...and they look great. :thumbsup:
 
Cool thanks for letting me know. Too many different links show up to pick from. :)
 
Looks awesome - man, I would love to play one of those amps sometime!
 
wowsers, that's best looking, modern Marshall gutshot I've ever seen :rock: :rock: :rock:
 
Man that is one clean looking amp. What a slut though... showing everyone her parts (most of us have not been formally introduced).

I wants.
 
Not the "opening up" I was hoping for.............................. :lol: :LOL:

That does look very nice :)
 
Not sure if he has what you need to get the original tubes, but I purchased some tubes awhile back from Doug's Tubes, great service; he took the time to discuss various options with me too. http://www.dougstubes.com/ Worth a look.
 
Nice! I hadn't seen the back panel before. I dig the white-on-black.

Oh, and about the pics...another thing you can do that I find handy sometimes, is if you go to the Finder, then go to your iDisk, anything that you put in the 'Sites' folder of your iDisk you can link to online with the URL http://homepage.mac.com/yourusernameher ... e.whatever.

If you're not at your computer, you can access your iDisk by going to http://www.me.com/idisk.

You can use the iDisk/Sites method for images, mp3s, videos, any kind of document...
 
badger71":y47e13wh said:
Look.....JC Penney is having a sale!





Great amp too. :thumbsup:
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and he's got that page folded over there too it looks like. :lol: :LOL:









and yes, really nice amp too :rock:
 
Wow, that is beautiful ! I have GOT to hear one of those. Usually, by the time the cool stuff comes up for sale down here, its used :aww: We must have clips.
 
chakosh":cdxwdg3r said:
Man that is one clean looking amp. What a slut though... showing everyone her parts (most of us have not been formally introduced).

I wants.
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:lol: :LOL: :lol: :LOL: :lol: :LOL:
 
dstroud":y5wgrn89 said:
Looks awesome - man, I would love to play one of those amps sometime!
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Yeah Darren its pretty cool even with EL34's.

guitarslinger":y5wgrn89 said:
wowsers, that's best looking, modern Marshall gutshot I've ever seen :rock: :rock: :rock:
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Yeah I was surprised too! Very clean for a Marshall.

chakosh":y5wgrn89 said:
Man that is one clean looking amp. What a slut though... showing everyone her parts (most of us have not been formally introduced).

I wants.
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:thumbsup:

badger71":y5wgrn89 said:
Look.....JC Penney is having a sale!





Great amp too. :thumbsup:
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I wondered how many posts it would take to notice that flyer. :lol: :LOL:

Digital Jams":y5wgrn89 said:
Not the "opening up" I was hoping for.............................. :lol: :LOL:

That does look very nice :)
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I opened it up that way too. :thumbsup:

yngzaklynch":y5wgrn89 said:
George you're killin me. Please post some clips
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Soon I hope....the studio is coming along, just not quite fast enough. :doh:
 
rsm":3ax936y1 said:
Not sure if he has what you need to get the original tubes, but I purchased some tubes awhile back from Doug's Tubes, great service; he took the time to discuss various options with me too. http://www.dougstubes.com/ Worth a look.
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I've been keeping an eye out for some 6CA7's...hoping to not have to pay $500.00 for a quad of tubes. :no: I know it would sound killer with those.
 
ratter":38fa3iu4 said:
Nice! I hadn't seen the back panel before. I dig the white-on-black.

Oh, and about the pics...another thing you can do that I find handy sometimes, is if you go to the Finder, then go to your iDisk, anything that you put in the 'Sites' folder of your iDisk you can link to online with the URL http://homepage.mac.com/yourusernameher ... e.whatever.

If you're not at your computer, you can access your iDisk by going to http://www.me.com/idisk.

You can use the iDisk/Sites method for images, mp3s, videos, any kind of document...
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It's prety cool they did that. It has a nice cover and booklet with some great pics in it too.

Cool I'll try that. I've been uploading to the mobile me gallery site and trying to link from there.. About a 50% success rate so far :lol: :LOL:
 
BURNTHISCORPSE":39ud11vl said:
and he's got that page folded over there too it looks like. :lol: :LOL:









and yes, really nice amp too :rock:
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JTyson":39ud11vl said:
Wow, that is beautiful ! I have GOT to hear one of those. Usually, by the time the cool stuff comes up for sale down here, its used :aww: We must have clips.
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I am hoping soon to have some clips....drywalling is my fave thing to do! :doh:
 
looks cool geo, how do you like the tones your getting, does it have as much gain as a jcm 800.
 
zao":23ou1ygo said:
looks cool geo, how do you like the tones your getting, does it have as much gain as a jcm 800.
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Thanks Tom. Its a pretty dark, thick fat sounding amp overall, I'd like it to have some more top end snap/zing. Maybe something other than GB's would help that. I've only played my JB loaded LP thru it, so it could be that too.

CH I is basically a Superlead but it gets pretty crunchy when its turned up. CH II has more gain than a 2203. I think most guys would still use a pedal to boost it though.
 
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