Had A Couple of Amps Modded

Bad.Seed

Bad.Seed

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Took two of my amps to my tech this week, and he returned them with my requested mods, both of which have me smiling.

First up is my 3 Channel Triple Rec. I had the 100k resistors in the preamp portion of channels 2 and 3 bypassed to tighten the amp, and had the stock 250k gain pots replaced with 1 meg pots. Results are a tighter amp with a more liquid feeling gain, less stiff, a little easier to play. Chugs are still big but the bass reacts quicker.



Second is my Jet City JCA50H I had the SLO and Depth mods done to this one. Big difference here. Gain is no longer over the top, a little more clarity, rounder, nicer sounding mids and not nearly as bright as before. Depth mod improves the low end as the amp in stock form is a little light in that area. This amp always punched above it's weight, but now it's just stupid.

 
Glad those Recto mods worked out! I've been having a blast with mine. I can honestly say that the Red is on equal footing with the Orange now...it's a little more 'modded Mesa/Marshall' now with way improved touch sensitivity and the clarity is a bit better. I did have to re-do my boost pedal a little since the 1meg pots increased the gain a ton. I used to live on Orange cloned to modern but now I can play either channel and smile. Tighter too, as you have said. Honestly with the gain increase and better tightness, a boost isn't really needed...but still fun with one.
 
Racerxrated said:
Glad those Recto mods worked out! I've been having a blast with mine. I can honestly say that the Red is on equal footing with the Orange now...it's a little more 'modded Mesa/Marshall' now with way improved touch sensitivity and the clarity is a bit better. I did have to re-do my boost pedal a little since the 1meg pots increased the gain a ton. I used to live on Orange cloned to modern but now I can play either channel and smile. Tighter too, as you have said. Honestly with the gain increase and better tightness, a boost isn't really needed...but still fun with one.
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Yessir! Thanks for the info on this stuff man! I'm finding red channel - vintage mode after these mods is just incredible. Apparently there is a global depth mod that can be done to these things as well, which I've never heard of on rectifiers. I'm honestly super digging this thing now.
 
Bad.Seed said:
Yessir! Thanks for the info on this stuff man! I'm finding red channel - vintage mode after these mods is just incredible. Apparently there is a global depth mod that can be done to these things as well, which I've never heard of on rectifiers. I'm honestly super digging this thing now.
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One thing I know, especially after these mods....the tone now is closer to the earlier Rectos, which tells me there is truth to the 'pre 500' thing since the tone is much improved...and as a stock F triple it was killer as is.
Love to try a real deal C/D someday.
 
Racerxrated said:
One thing I know, especially after these mods....the tone now is closer to the earlier Rectos, which tells me there is truth to the 'pre 500' thing since the tone is much improved...and as a stock F triple it was killer as is.
Love to try a real deal C/D someday.
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Spill the beans racerxrated... lol
 
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