Recent content by The Filth

Hey everyone, I got a 5150 Iconic a couple of months back. It's a great head, blows away both of the 50w versions from EVH I've owned in the past. I'm absolutely convinced that in a blindfold test or a situation where players didn't know the price or the number of tubes in it, most of them...

Hey guys, For whatever reason, I was under the impression that EVH only had one branded humbucker (although sometimes manufactured in different places). Somehow I missed the fact that there is a Wolfgang pickup and a Frankenstein pickup that's made my Seymour Duncan, but w/ EVH branding from...

I hear you, that is definitely a real phenomenon, I'm not immune to it, but in this case the capacitor does appear to be significantly damaged. I clipped off a good third of it.

Hey, just to be clear, does the dielectric not matter so much then? I don't know what that is really to be honest... So, would something like this work? https://www.ytfcapacitor.com/ceramic-capacitor/Ceramic-Capacitor-102K-1KV.html

Ahhh okay... sorry for the late reply. This is really good info. Many thanks to you, sir!

Dude, you just a full on hallucination. It's like you saw "C137" and ran program, "some asshole who reads too many forums swears this mod SAVED his amp and SO MUCH better." Read what I said again. Not what you wish I said so you can feel like you're above all the trend jumpers all over the...

Yes it is- I should have added that. It's a ceramic capacitor and yes, it is 1,000pF. But there are other relevant factors, yeah? Or is it that easy? I don't know what all the other values written on it are for.

Hey everyone, I recently performed the popular "C137" mod on my EVH III EL34 50w head. I think it sounds good with the mod, and makes it better suited to some more extreme styles, but the stock version with the C137 capacitor sounds good too. They just sound different, with the stock being a...

Hey all, I love Hiwatt amps. Well, in theory at least. I've never really even played one, only models of them, and of course I've heard them as used by some of my favorite players-- Gilmour in particular--on some great live recordings. I'm aware of the sound and general vibe of the DR103...

Ah, Nux makes them. That makes sense. The funny thing is, I will continue to pay 100-400$ dollars for pedals, no problem. Interestingly enough, I tried it with my Two Notes Captor X and through that the JHS Bonsai sounds livelier overall. All I can say is I think it's a very good pedal and for...

I just bought the Drive pedal from Amazon's line of mini pedals. The thing was like 22$ so I put it in my cart along with some other stuff. It's so cheap that's it's just... what the hell, right? I've found, without exception so far, that if I take away my preconceptions about Amazon--both...

I'm just seeing this. Okay, that makes sense now! I think. My understanding of what impedance is was clearly limiting my ability to understand. I didn't pay enough attention in physics class... lol

Hi folks, I'm happily in the market for an 80's style bolt-on neck Strat-style guitar a la EVH in the 80's. I've played all the one's you'd expect in my search--the new Kramers, Fender "Super Strat" reissue, a few Charvel's etc--but then on a whim I picked up one of the EVH Frankenstein relics...

Yes, you're correct here. The amp has different outputs, the standard being the16 into the 16. But the Captor is connect to the 8 Ohm output and then fed into the 16 Ohm speaker.... So, in other words, it is a mismatch? Sounds like it. Is there a notable loss of tone or addition risk then?

Thanks for getting back to me! Interesting... So even though I have a 16 ohms speaker and am using the 8ohms Captor X with the 8 ohms output on my amp, things are matched properly? So it's kind of irrelevant whether the speaker is 8 ohms or 16 ohms at that point? Thanks again, Max