NAD, kinda, Fortin-spec DSL content(now w/clips)

[O'Rourke]

Had this amp for a while but just got it back with the Fortin DSL mod done and a choke installed. I got it cheap and in terrible shape, recovered it in white and did the clear front panel. Click the link for before/after pics, it was pretty hideous when I got it.

Kept it internally stock but I always wanted to change a few things about it which the Fortin mod does VERY well. Big thanks to Mike Fortin for posting the values on his mod in this thread, it is killer.

The amp now has a lot more low mid focus and clarity. The mod takes that harshness/thin highs out of the amp on the red channel, balances the bass response between the channels and makes the tone shift usable. Also thanks to Randy at Vintage Amp Repair, I wussed out and took it to him after seeing how close everything was packed on that double sided main PCB board. I've done a lot of soldering on guitars but have never done any amp work other than biasing tubes so I figured I better let a pro handle it and he did an awesome job. Clips will be forthcoming, been to busy enjoying it to make any yet.

Clips-

OD2 unboosted and green channel clean mode so you can hear how well the channels are balanced post-mod, reverb is from the amp's spring reverb on the clean stuff-
http://www.netmusicians.org/index.php?section=id&value=6952

OD1 with HB-sized BG Pure 90's, switched to clean at the end again-
http://www.netmusicians.org/index.php?section=id&value=6953

Green crunch mode going back and forth between the bridge and neck pups in each section. Starts with no boost, then boosted with a Dano transparent OD and then boosted with a Bad Monkey. Gets muddy with the Bad Monkey. I don't use that pedal much except to fatten up leads and with single coils but I had it so I used it-
http://www.netmusicians.org/index.php?section=id&value=6954

 

[thegame]

Congrats ! The all white theme looks incredible ! What speakers you running in the Mills ?

 

[O'Rourke]

V30/K100 X-pattern in the Mills at the moment.

 

[headlessdeadguy]

How long did Randy have it? I'd love to check it out. I have a DSL incoming.

 

[fickle]

Looks great ! Is that the Afterburner or the Classic cab they make?

 

[O'Rourke]

How long did Randy have it? I'd love to check it out. I have a DSL incoming.

He had it for a while chasing an intermittent oscillation. I'm out about halfway between Lancaster and Canal Winchester if you'd like to try it out.

 

[O'Rourke]

Looks great ! Is that the Afterburner or the Classic cab they make?

Full size Afterburner. Big heavy SOB but it sounds killer, by far the best cab I've ever owned or played through.

 

[tweed]

Did you upgrade the transformers as well? Those look a little big to be stock. I have been going back and forth about doing more of his mods to my DSL 50, but I don't have a lot of spare time at the moment. Didn't want to crack the thing open and not be able to reassemble it before an upcoming gig.

 

[headlessdeadguy]

How long did Randy have it? I'd love to check it out. I have a DSL incoming.

He had it for a while chasing an intermittent oscillation. I'm out about halfway between Lancaster and Canal Winchester if you'd like to try it out.

Man I'd love to. I think my buddy may have bought either a JVM or a 1960a from you. Are you in College View? I'm just east of Circleville.

 

[Devilinside]

You digging that speaker combo? I was thinking of doing that with my port city if it sounds good

 

[O'Rourke]

How long did Randy have it? I'd love to check it out. I have a DSL incoming.

He had it for a while chasing an intermittent oscillation. I'm out about halfway between Lancaster and Canal Winchester if you'd like to try it out.

Man I'd love to. I think my buddy may have bought either a JVM or a 1960a from you. Are you in College View? I'm just east of Circleville.

Yep, I live in Collegeview. If your buddy picked up a JVM 410 from me in his GF's Honda Pilot that's me.


edit-stock transformers and I'm not totally digging the speaker combo at least with this amp and the style of music I play. I really like it but I love greenbacks and V30's more, probably going to trade this quad to ldm for her V30/Hellatone 30 quad and get another unloaded Mills for the quad of greenbacks I've got laying on a shelf. This is a killer speaker combo for deep palm muted metal type tones and downtuning though, cab and speakers stay tight with insane amounts of bass. My bread and butter is classic rock and bluesy stuff though. These speakers in a Mills are a bit tighter than I'm used to with greenbacks and marshall cabs. I'll have some clips up tomorrow to show the range of tones you can get from it. The mod makes the amp a lot more versatile.

Thanks again to Mike Fortin for posting his mod specs publicly like that, that was freaking awesome and very much appreciated.

 

[SuperFlyinMonke]

Sweet ass. White amps rule.

 

[O'Rourke]

bump for clips.

 

[tweed]

bump - Looking for clips of your crunch channel if possible. I am toying with the idea of cracking my dsl back open and doing more mods just haven't made up my mind which ones yet...

 

[JTyson]

clips are not there (?)

 

[tweed]

clips are not there (?)

exactly

 

[Capulin Overdrive]

clips are not there (?)

exactly

you're just not use to hearing an amp that clean!

 

[gbsmusic]

NICE!!!!!!

 

[PeteLaramee]

Awesome. It looks great and I'm sure it sounds great too.

V30/K100 X-pattern in the Mills at the moment.

I'm running H30s/K100s x-pattern in a Mojo cab with my modded DSL (voodoo) and I think it sounds great. I think the k100s really help make the leads nice and thick.

 

[O'Rourke]

clips are not there (?)

I don't know what happened but my netmusicians.org account lost about half of my clips, including all my Fortin clips and some of my Titan tijuana modded Marshall clips. They aren't on my "control panel" screen and I don't have them on my hard drive anymore since I deleted them after uploading.

I will make new ones and upload them when I get a chance, probably tomorrow. Kinda pisses me off because I found a good spot where my DR-07 was recording relatively well and I was finally getting closer to recording what I am hearing in the room after a lot of trial and error. Don't know WTF happened with netmusicians.