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The Cali is that Fortin thing, isn´t it, sort of a modernized José. As far as I know the basic original José mod was to stick half a tube controlled by a separate gain knob in front of a 1959/1987 circuit, lean out the low end and put a 2203-style master volume on it. From there I´m not sure...

I don´t think the prices of the originals have just about anything to do with the sound of them, regardless if there is an actual difference or not. With that said, they´re actually a lot cheaper now compared to when Mike was just retired. Seemed like people snagged them at any cost for a while...

I wouldn´t be surprised if BAD already has sold more SLO100s than Mike ever did, so there are a lot more of them out there now. More readily available and a much higher profile in the market, that naturally leads to more people checking them out - and maybe returning them too. And as always...

The later ones are said to be a bit brighter and from my albeit limited experience I can agree with that. I seem to remember that the circuit is more or less the same from the JMP to the JCM era but that there is a difference in the voltages. The dudes that know amps for real will chime in, I´m...

When I had one of these it needed an iso transformer between it and the amp, at least in my set-up. I guess that's why the later PQ4 had a ground lift switch added, and it's a pretty common issue with using mains-powered stuff like that.

The current ones with the Eternal Classic voicing sound great judging from the two I've played, I can't say that all of the older mod versions sounded as good, I've played some I really didn't dig much, but he's really dialed in a nice sound now with the Eternal Classic and the mark VII. The 16...

Yeah, about the IIA/B I think it´s probably the most widely used Mark of them all. It was everywhere in the late 70s and early 80s.

Steve Lukather on the Isolation and Fahrenheit albums. Stryper on just about everything.

It´s always 1993 when the 80s dudes want to do something heavier and darker, funny how that works out even 30+ years later. He is a great player with a great sound, though!

I think the first recordings I have of myself playing guitar are cassette tapes recorded with something very much like this oddball 1970s stereo mic thing running into my mom´s home stereo cassette deck. I did graduate to a four track Fostex sometime in the early 90s, which I think still is in...

Sounds like you´re picking up some outside interference - does it change when you move around the room or back away from the guitar? Might be as easy as turning off some device somewhere, or maybe you need to check the shielding in the guitar.

Maybe the Poundcake 2 is a bit different from the mark 1 stuff, but I have to disagree that dark and smooth is super misleading. On my Brick it was easily mids and treble on 10 to get a whiff of that Marshall-ish cut, but I do agree that these are not saturated smooth. The gain structure was way...

Congrats! I had the Brick preamp maybe five-six years ago, which is similar at least to that original bright blue Poundcake, and I agree. Very mid-90s sounding, thicker and smoother than your typical Marshall. And yeah, I remember a very small hype train back in the HCAF and JCF days, and I...

Thanks for all that, man, great to get some proper insight. I could probably live with most minor upkeep stuff in a fifty year old amp, but the transformers are something else. Especially if the OT is replaced.

Hi guys, I´m thinking of picking up a mid 70s metal panel and I´m currently circling this one from 1975. Looks fairly stock and clean inside to my untrained eyes, apart from the missing bright cap, but can you guys that know your way around these things shed any light on what I´m looking at...

Didn´t ESP try to revive that sliding pickup thing? I could swear I saw Lynch do ads for it, but maybe I´m just retroactively putting him in every old ad at this point 😄

... and the JSX II confusingly turned into another Butcher amp before release, but then was never released anyhow. Peavey was a bit of a mess at this point :giggle:

Here´s the 590: https://www.axebition.com/bridge/jackson-jt-590 Otherwise it´s probably a japanese Takeuchi TRS, another extremely common model used by tons of manufacturers at the time: https://www.axebition.com/bridge/jackson-jt580 Jackson used variations of the Takeuchi for the imports for...

It´s got the Schaller JT590, presumably, so that´s a really nice Floyd. Basically the best stock/OEM trem of the era, and everyone used it even on high end builds when the OFR wasn´t available for manufacturers. One common thing to watch out for is wobbly pivot posts - just wrap them in some...

It's cool for what it is. Sort of a fatter plexi style on the crunch mode that takes a TS without getting too honky and thin, and a nice, rich lead channel. Never really caught on for the metal crowd, which is perfectly understandable but also where a lot of the confusion comes in. Back in the...