PhloridaMan
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The past weekend was a bit of a busy week for me trading gear around.
Friday, I grabbed a few month old EVH 5150III Stealth 100w on trade from a buddy of mine for my EVH5150III EL34 100w. A number of you saw my previous thread where I was looking to get rid of this harsh mid-high tone I was not liking with my Mesa 412 oversized cab loaded with V30s with my EL34 head. My buddy and I had been chatting about this also and he suggested a trade. Despite a number of people telling me they sound the same, I had him come over and let me give it a run through. Immediately upon plugging in I told him he wasn't getting it back. Same settings on everything in my rig and dialing the amp to the exact same settings I had been running the EL34 at, it just felt darker and shifted the mids to where I was happy with them and got rid of that harshness I wasn't liking. Even got am EVH 2x12 cab with it out of the deal that's missing the grille cloth and is a little beat up and plan to eventually buy a pair of Creambacks, toss them in the Mesa Cab in an X and take two of those V30s and put them in the EVH 2x12 for an "iso cab" setup in the spare closet of my home studio.
Friday I also got a commitment from a guy to "buy" my JVM205h, however that quickly changed to "hey I don't have the cash would you want to do this trade"... That trade ended up being for a 1989 JCM800 2210 head that had just been serviced with new JJ pre and power tubes, replaced the IC Chip, cleaned all the tube sockets and pots, replaced electrolytics and reflowed all the tube socket solder joints based on the receipt he provided dated 4/26/2023. It's an amp I've always been curious about and was originally taking it on trade because it's a value up trade for me to make a little more money on, however now I think I've fallen in love with this thing and may need to resort to selling myself on the street corners here in Ocala to pay for these medical bills I was planning to pay off with the JVM funds
Total spent this weekend was $0 and I've got two bad mammajamma amps in the collection to sit beside my 6505+ and Carvin V3 heads.
The bad part about this JCM800 however is now I am looking at mods and ways to add a little more gain to it to really get it to scream lol The GAS never goes away does it...
Friday, I grabbed a few month old EVH 5150III Stealth 100w on trade from a buddy of mine for my EVH5150III EL34 100w. A number of you saw my previous thread where I was looking to get rid of this harsh mid-high tone I was not liking with my Mesa 412 oversized cab loaded with V30s with my EL34 head. My buddy and I had been chatting about this also and he suggested a trade. Despite a number of people telling me they sound the same, I had him come over and let me give it a run through. Immediately upon plugging in I told him he wasn't getting it back. Same settings on everything in my rig and dialing the amp to the exact same settings I had been running the EL34 at, it just felt darker and shifted the mids to where I was happy with them and got rid of that harshness I wasn't liking. Even got am EVH 2x12 cab with it out of the deal that's missing the grille cloth and is a little beat up and plan to eventually buy a pair of Creambacks, toss them in the Mesa Cab in an X and take two of those V30s and put them in the EVH 2x12 for an "iso cab" setup in the spare closet of my home studio.
Friday I also got a commitment from a guy to "buy" my JVM205h, however that quickly changed to "hey I don't have the cash would you want to do this trade"... That trade ended up being for a 1989 JCM800 2210 head that had just been serviced with new JJ pre and power tubes, replaced the IC Chip, cleaned all the tube sockets and pots, replaced electrolytics and reflowed all the tube socket solder joints based on the receipt he provided dated 4/26/2023. It's an amp I've always been curious about and was originally taking it on trade because it's a value up trade for me to make a little more money on, however now I think I've fallen in love with this thing and may need to resort to selling myself on the street corners here in Ocala to pay for these medical bills I was planning to pay off with the JVM funds
Total spent this weekend was $0 and I've got two bad mammajamma amps in the collection to sit beside my 6505+ and Carvin V3 heads.
The bad part about this JCM800 however is now I am looking at mods and ways to add a little more gain to it to really get it to scream lol The GAS never goes away does it...
