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"I was told it was modded by the Eddie Vanhalen’s guy with the Brown sound mod. There’s no way I can verify that."

Dude, The Eddie Vanhalen's guy is a legend. I had several of my 1956 plexis modded with his Brown Sound mod amps, absolute killers, nailed that "Round and Round" VH tone. I sold one to Stevie Ray Vaughn in 2006.
 
I'll start by imparting my effortless polarization by virtue of participation... LOL

Ken Fischer of Trainwreck used those boards.. He also used CDE Caps, but there's a WIMA in there and everything looks like shit with iron burns LOL... All parts are defaced or gooped, but KF never did that..

I'll say the amp wasn't in the same region as KF... If it was so awesome, there would be WAY more info about the amp, like how they came up with that dogshit hack rear grill..
 
midnightlaundry said:
I'll start by imparting my effortless polarization by virtue of participation... LOL

Ken Fischer of Trainwreck used those boards.. He also used CDE Caps, but there's a WIMA in there and everything looks like shit with iron burns LOL... All parts are defaced or gooped, but KF never did that..

I'll say the amp wasn't in the same region as KF... If it was so awesome, there would be WAY more info about the amp, like how they came up with that dogshit hack rear grill..
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I will admit I have been guilty of the ghetto rear grill mod...I have lost my back panels while moving and had to play a show and had to load in/out from a trailer or van and didnt want my tubes smashed so, off to Home Depot for the $6 grill special.
 
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I just take them off so I can get in there on a whim for tube swaps and such..

Ken also used flea clips.. No flea clips on that build..

BTW, Ken did service EVH's amp at one time according to legend..

Check out the Amp Garage..
 
Did old Marshalls even have back covers? Thought they got added later by UL for safety
reasons cause of the red hot exposed parts.
 
They all had backs but not like that,somebody was acting like they were going to get that the other day.
 
That circuit board is from DIY.Nothing marshall about it.
 
So, I recently re-acquired my old ‘75 50-watt non-MV Marshall from a very good friend who I sold it to over 10 yrs ago. It was butcher-modded and later returned to (glorious) stock non-MV form (all on my watch…) Since selling it, the field of ‘amp in a box’ pedals has literally exploded. I own a Wampler Pinnacle Deluxe, a JHS @+, and a Friedman BE OD Deluxe. And each pedal sounds positively glorious and absolutely ‘unique’ feeding this head through a 20-watt GB loaded 4x12. Absolutely no offense to any of the monster modders out there (I personally can’t get enough of Gower and Michael RT’s amps…) but I gotta say, with the current selection of AIB pedals, it’s tougher to justify modding a solid, non-MV Marshall.
 
panhead said:
Its a 76 but ripping the original circuit board out would be a no go
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Mine started as a 74 but had the same problem, original board ripped out, another modified 80s JMP board swapped in poorly, and a leaking/blown filter cap. I bought it just for the iron originally but decided to restore and mod it to my preference.
 
The biggest thing about the evh thing was, he was running a 100watt head into a 100 watt cabinet cranked. Ive done it forever, yeah youll lose a speaker every once in a while but that is the key ingredient
 
When he wound the voltage down on the variac the amp was only capable of putting out about 30W though
 
panhead said:
Thats what is bullshit. Have you ever done it? It is still loud as fuck at 89 volts my friend.
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Ya, all it's going to do is add some sag by making the supply caps work a little harder/slower.
Might nip off 3-6 dB but that ain't nothing to a 100 watter that's breathing fire.
 
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