Mojave Scorpion and Peacemaker

[Searay]

There seems to be more and more name players utilizing these amps. I have had my Scorpion for a few moons now and am really pleased with it. I will never, ever part with my '72 Super Lead, but this gives it a run for the money a little darker and a little more refined, and I like going in between the lo and hi inputs. Anyone out there in the clubs using them these days?

 

[Chubtone]

I use my Peacemaker at home in my studio. I've owned it for 6-7 years. I still love it.

 

[JJGray]

I've had both a Scorpion and Peacemaker with their respective 4x12 cabs for years, that I won't part with. I still love using them.

 

[Searay]

Curt, your cd has been tops on my playlist for a few weeks now. When is the follow up due out?

 

[Searay]

JJ how do you like the build quality of the cabs? Does the cloth hold up and keep it's color? I've been thinking of picking one up. Not a big fan of the Chinese G12H30 tho. Vic ever sold one empty?

 

[zuel69]

Yea, I bought an unloaded 4x12 from Vic a few years ago...and it still sits unloaded

 

[Chubtone]

Curt, your cd has been tops on my playlist for a few weeks now. When is the follow up due out?

Thanks buddy! Follow up? Yikes...... don't hold your breath

 

[JJGray]

JJ how do you like the build quality of the cabs? Does the cloth hold up and keep it's color? I've been thinking of picking one up. Not a big fan of the Chinese G12H30 tho. Vic ever sold one empty?

Searay,

I like the quality of Vic's cabinets. They're rock solid and heavy, and sound great. The cloth keeps it's color just fine. I bought the Mojave's specifically because of their tone and build quality, and I couldn't be happier. The Celestion G12H30's are a great match for the tone of the heads. This head and cab combo cuts right through, and you won't get lost in a band mix. I got one cab wired as mono and one as stereo.

 

[mentoneman]

tone

 

[Searay]

Think I'm sticking with the old Marshall cabs. I just found another 1976 large check straight so now I have a pair. One has blackbacks and the other is two greens, a cream, and one current production greenback.

 

[mentoneman]

had a free day finally and went insane with pickups.

pulled the neck/middle suhr landaus out of my maple neck strat, and threw them in my tyler, and swapped the tom holmes in the bridge of the tyler with the mojave pickup curt sold me like a year ago! i'm really loving the extra fire power in the tyler bridge the mojave brings, and i swapped the 500K volume pot which was acting up, with a 250k. looking forward to using this bad boy live!

then i replaced the entire pickguard from the maple neck strat with one loaded with my kinman avn 59 neck/middle, and a higher order custom A2 8.3k humbucker in the bridge.

i still have another ibbycarvin parts strat loaded with a classic stack duncan in the neck and a hs2 in the middle, and i'm debating what to put in the bridge; holmes 450, pearly gates, or tb4.....

 

[Digital Jams]

Whan I was asking guys that I trust about plexi style amps several said Peacemaker, they go for great prices if you catch them when listed.

 

[rockstah]

Vic's workmanship is impeccable. I have worked on many of them and he gets total respect.
Mark

 

[mentoneman]

pickup wiring question:

what do you guys like to do for shielding/grounding?

the HSS pickups in the tyler are all 2 wire, the cavity and pickguard are shielded, but i forget how i connected the shielding to ground on prior guitars....the pickups work, but i think the humbucker is noisier than before and i may have missed something.

i think i star grounded everything to a central point on a washer soldered to pickguard foil, attached to a protection cap to the volume pot shaft washer, instead of the grounded solder point being the back of the volume pot, and bridge/claw wire grounds to cavity shield paint, so as long as cavity shield connects to pickguard shield i think i'm solid, but it's been years since i did my last pickguard from scratch.

tips?