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Assuming I wander into more money than I make now this is the list of stuff I’m looking for and keeping an eye on. Mesa IIB coli or mark 3 coli Another Marshall cab with 75’s or maybe 65’s A solid delay, maybe a Pcm41/42 A maple neck les Paul custom in white or black. A power supply for a...

I got mine off a local guy who had a garage full of pulls and nos stuff. They’re’s a fair amount of eBay but what you want to look for is the i63. Also I think you mentioned elsewhere about powertubes. Check out peavy 6l6 pulls, that’s how I got a quad or str387’s or 415’s for next to nothing.

Mark 3 here but I like Chinese in all the slots except v1. I think an older Mullard sounds best there. Really good “harmonics”, brightness, and low end. I find the tungs to be to bloaty and fat but they might be a bit different in a 2c.

Such a bad, out of touch look all around, crazy markup on a product with no original/unique selling points. Maybe they should throw some money at putting players in B and D suite roles. Dudes can’t even get a dirty fingers reissue correct and think I’m gonna spend 1k on their latest cash grab...

Id mod it. Pots, pickups, nuts, and tuners aren’t a biggie. A better playing/sounding guitar is a better guitar. For every one dentist buying new decorations for his office theres 10 players who want the same thing you do. I can’t speak for everyone here but stuff like nuts, frets, and pots are...

RG-174 is kinda the standard, albeit some people on here use white coax (not sure the brand).

Id go through every sold listing for 78 customs out of Europe and hopefully match serial numbers. I also don’t think it’s too much to ask who sold it to Ish and who bought it considering it is stolen. If they don’t tell you who bought it I’d go to reverb and ask. If I had to guess, ish isn’t...

I like shielded wire on both grids of v1 and the 68k connected to the tube socket not the input jack. I don’t like the optional cap on v1 but that’s easy to remove. I also like to heat shrink the 470k/470p cap from the low jack to the gain pot as it can get a bit noisy.

Two things I can think of… 1: the pot is messed up. I’d check the resistance of the pot and the taper from off to on. 2: I’d check to make sure it’s hooked up right. Middle lug of the trebble pot should go to the left side of the master pot and the center lug on the master should go to a...

I will for sure

Not yet, I have most everything ready to go in terms of files but finding a manufacturer is a bit of a challenge. That and I need to buy a non GEQ model so I can get information together for guys converting their amps over from non GEQ to GEQ. Also probably need to get a long head just to cover...

If I were a rich man I’d buy Dagnal’s tooling just to troll Marshall. It’s amazing how stupid and out of touch PE ownership can be, the only edge Marshall had on cloners was their transformers. But hey, we saved 3% on unit costs!

Van Halen rising by Greg Renhoff is great all around, focusing on the band members from a young age through the first album if I remember. All around feel good story. Runnin with the devil by Noel Monk is also great and focuses on the band from 1980ish to the 1984 tour. A bit dark. Weird...

So with the above picture you will have to buy a tool to bias the powertubes. The one ohm resistor allows you to measure voltage across it much like a biasing tool allows you to do, except you don’t have to break the circuit with the one ohm resistors.

Yup that 1ohm resistor(s) allows you to bias the amp without a special tool, you can substitute them for just a straight piece of wire to ground if you don’t want to use them. You do you, but I find if your gonna tweak something point to point boards make it so much easier. It really sucks...

Believe they started with 4ohms on the jmp’s and moved to 8 ohms on the later 800’s. If I remember correctly when they shipped amps with 6550’s 4ohm was standard, then when EL34’s were used again they switched back to 8ohm.

Hell yeah dude, not sure if you’ve played any of the older superleads reissues but I wonder how it compares. Not sure if yours has the new transformers in it and I’d be curious to see how it is.

I have a hard time believing they actually got up to 170ma and didn’t blow given the limited range of most bias pots, but I don’t know bogner’s very well. I bet they’re fine. I once forgot to connect some stuff properly and ran a new set of el34’s as hot as possible for about the same amount of...

This is what I follow take it for what you will. Amp set to 4ohm and your good for 4 and 8 ohm cabs. 8 ohm amp and your good for 8 and 16ohm cabs. 16ohm amp goes to 16ohm cab. Ideally you’d have them match. Personally I’d worry more about the original screen grids, bias filter caps, and...

This is where I got that number from, https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-quest-to-revive-the-great-american-vacuum-tube/ Sorta related but I emailed them about manufacturing tubes the day all the stuff popped off in march of 2022 and heard back from Charles Whitener within the day which was...