Soldano Hot mod?

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No. ^ I wouldn't use that IMO. Its like making your tube amp a transistor amp. They aren't real tubes like the hot mod was, they are transistors that con go into the places of real tubes.
 
peterc52":2wp2dbau said:
Can I make one myself?
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Yes. The schematics are out there and it is very simple to do. The hardest part is rigging the whole thing up. You have to be pretty creative there. And as Mike already has said, the ground is critical. Put it in a bad spot and it will be nothing but noise.

You can still get the tubes from Tube Depot and other places, they aren't too expensive.


Edit- There is also a company out there that makes a hot mod type thing, but in a breakout box that allows you to turn it on and off. Pretty neat. I'll see if I can find the link.
 
I have a guy making one of these using 2 12ax7's and adding a gain knob. We are doing design changes to it (better clip, better ground, etc. ), but this one works great. Sounds exactly like my Hot Mod only you can adjust it back down to stock with the gain knob.

The schematics are all over the place for these things (hotmod) BTW

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Awesome Atrox! You guys have any plans to market these? The Kasha kind of took off where the hot mod left off and yours seems to as well. Nice to have the option to dial it down and out of the circuit too. Have you compared yours to the original? If you can, try to take that fizz off the top when you open the hot mod all the way up. These are a great idea. No mods, no fuss, just tone.
 
Kapo_Polenton":1okfdi2k said:
Awesome Atrox! You guys have any plans to market these? The Kasha kind of took off where the hot mod left off and yours seems to as well. Nice to have the option to dial it down and out of the circuit too. Have you compared yours to the original? If you can, try to take that fizz off the top when you open the hot mod all the way up. These are a great idea. No mods, no fuss, just tone.
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we are trying to get the design right. The version above is a little awkward. We are making 3 initially and going from there. we have some good engineering ideas to try out.

The version above has the black dot which is unity gain (stock). We have some component values to mess around with to get the tone to sound stock too. Basically it just needs a treble bleed to get it to sound bone stock. At about 3/4's up it is at around the gain level that the HotMod gives you (and we are only using 3 stages). It sounds dead-on. Above that it gets even more gain and a bit bright, so we need to reduce that too. All simple things that we just need to try out... when time allows.
 
A brightness switch at higher gain settings might be an option or a mid boost might be smart for those people trying to catch the SIR #39 from this type of mod too! Think about it :rock: That tone sounded bright or mid boosted but cuts through so well in recording. I think that would be a bonus.. I'm still trying to think about how i would turn my MTS SL+ module into something Caswellian-Levi-ish..
 
atrox":hpekig5i said:
I have a guy making one of these using 2 12ax7's and adding a gain knob. We are doing design changes to it (better clip, better ground, etc. ), but this one works great. Sounds exactly like my Hot Mod only you can adjust it back down to stock with the gain knob.

The schematics are all over the place for these things (hotmod) BTW

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Add a jack to make it foot switchable between two settings? Maybe too crazy though ... ;)
 
I just pulled my hot mod out of storage after 2 years sitting there..boy I'm glad I didn't sell it. It really gives the amp that gritty "on the edge of explosion" sound.. somewhere between a one wire mod done well and something else. I don't like the preamp past 7 or 8 and a clean boost tightens it up where desired but it smokes! I swear with my epiphone and alnico II's, I really feel slash's AFD vibe coming through there..

Add a jack to make it foot switchable between two settings? Maybe too crazy though ... ;)
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No way man, that would put it somewhere above the Kasha.. that's exactly what we need. USe the welcome to the jungle isolated guitar track as a guide :rock:
 
The idea of a footswitch has been tossed around actually. it may be too much space though for the latest design.
 
atrox":g0kshlmf said:
The idea of a footswitch has been tossed around actually. it may be too much space though for the latest design.
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Cool, you're in rochester, I used to live there, I kinda miss it every other time or so. Hows it up there in rochester this time of the year?
 
roadifier":2o07ne2o said:
atrox":2o07ne2o said:
The idea of a footswitch has been tossed around actually. it may be too much space though for the latest design.
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Cool, you're in rochester, I used to live there, I kinda miss it every other time or so. Hows it up there in rochester this time of the year?
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Right now it's just really wet. sucks. I really like it here though. good job, cheap homes... etc....
 
The Hotmod was not intended to be used in Superlead circuits. Probably why some of you guys didnt have any luck with them. :)
 
As I mentioned it added tons of gain to my JCM 800 2203. I used it for a while with 6550's and yellow jackets w/ el-84. Its pretty cool but I much prefer the 800 with the SD-1 in front...
 
I found the opposite.. the SD-1 is more processed sounding.. I find the hot mod to be more raw and natural sounding. Interesting perspectives..
 
There was another model being made similar to the hot mod but specifically for old fender amps with reverb, someone was cloning them an selling on eBay a few yrs ago
 
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