Telephant
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So being the badass that he is, forumite Clay Finley took in my Superbass for some work. Not only did he only charge me for parts, he lent me his 1970 Superlead with PPIMV to use while he had my amp!!! The '70 Superlead is what I recorded my recent demo with.
Well I picked up the Superbass yesterday and I he told me that he originally bought the Superlead without a power transformer. He ended up going with a Mercury Magnetics Plexi Trem clone and man this amp screams!
I took my Superbass to him for multiple reasons. The first one, the standy switch got snagged on something and was halfway in and halfway out from the faceplate. It was also the wrong kind! it was red as if it was supposed to light up, but standby switches dont light up, only the Power switch! I never even thought about that until he mentioned it...
He also replaced my old svetlana tubes with Winged C EL34's. Also, my headshell is in such "relic" shape that my handle finally tore off on one end. He replaced that as well.
Now for the mod he did...
He added a 2.7k and a .68mf for the lead channel. However, we ended up jumpering the cathode back to shared (left 2.7k and .68mf in circuit). What that means I have no idea.
What it sounds like however is this: We basically added just a tad of Superlead to the Superbass. Meaning, now the amp cleans up SOOOO much better with the guitar volume, and i want to say it actually runs quieter now! Also, I can now run my Vol 1 all the way up with the channels bridged, without it mushing out. Essentially being able to use all of my preamp gain.
my Superbass already sounded ridiculously good. All we did was take a good thing and make it better. And its completely reversable. If I decide I dont like it, all he's got to do is snip it out.
Here are pics of the mod (Clay will need to chime in cause I have no idea what Im looking at
New tubes:
New handle:
New standby switch:
My baby:
Also, before I left his house, I mentioned I needed a washer for my gold strap locks as one of the locks came undone and the washer went flying into the unknown. Clay actually had a random gold washer for the exact type of strap lock I have. Not only that, I mentioned needing a new insert for the caster on the bottom of my cab, as the old one was stripped so I couldnt use my casters. And he had one of those laying around too! All I could do was laugh. What a bad ass!
Clay also has a very nice collection of Marshalls. He has a 50 watt '72 Purple Superlead halfstack and he's got another a 100 watt '72 Superlead in (factory) purple on its way with the matching cab! Fucking dualing factory purple halfstacks, one 50, one 100, from the same damn year! Now thats a collection!
He's also got an old '69 (metal panel) 50 watt Bass head in red tolex!
Anyways, enough braggin'. Here is his 1970 100watt Superlead with MM tranny:
Well I picked up the Superbass yesterday and I he told me that he originally bought the Superlead without a power transformer. He ended up going with a Mercury Magnetics Plexi Trem clone and man this amp screams!
I took my Superbass to him for multiple reasons. The first one, the standy switch got snagged on something and was halfway in and halfway out from the faceplate. It was also the wrong kind! it was red as if it was supposed to light up, but standby switches dont light up, only the Power switch! I never even thought about that until he mentioned it...
He also replaced my old svetlana tubes with Winged C EL34's. Also, my headshell is in such "relic" shape that my handle finally tore off on one end. He replaced that as well.
Now for the mod he did...
He added a 2.7k and a .68mf for the lead channel. However, we ended up jumpering the cathode back to shared (left 2.7k and .68mf in circuit). What that means I have no idea.
What it sounds like however is this: We basically added just a tad of Superlead to the Superbass. Meaning, now the amp cleans up SOOOO much better with the guitar volume, and i want to say it actually runs quieter now! Also, I can now run my Vol 1 all the way up with the channels bridged, without it mushing out. Essentially being able to use all of my preamp gain.
my Superbass already sounded ridiculously good. All we did was take a good thing and make it better. And its completely reversable. If I decide I dont like it, all he's got to do is snip it out.
Here are pics of the mod (Clay will need to chime in cause I have no idea what Im looking at
New tubes:
New handle:
New standby switch:
My baby:
Also, before I left his house, I mentioned I needed a washer for my gold strap locks as one of the locks came undone and the washer went flying into the unknown. Clay actually had a random gold washer for the exact type of strap lock I have. Not only that, I mentioned needing a new insert for the caster on the bottom of my cab, as the old one was stripped so I couldnt use my casters. And he had one of those laying around too! All I could do was laugh. What a bad ass!
Clay also has a very nice collection of Marshalls. He has a 50 watt '72 Purple Superlead halfstack and he's got another a 100 watt '72 Superlead in (factory) purple on its way with the matching cab! Fucking dualing factory purple halfstacks, one 50, one 100, from the same damn year! Now thats a collection!
He's also got an old '69 (metal panel) 50 watt Bass head in red tolex!
Anyways, enough braggin'. Here is his 1970 100watt Superlead with MM tranny:
