April 2012
10 posts
crimsonbasser asked: Hey man, I have two amps (Sunn Solarus and Traynor Bass Master Mark II) that shock me when I play without shoes on. Pretty sure this means they're not grounded. I check both plugs, neither have the ground pin connected to anything and the electrical cable itself has no shield or ground in it. If I was to replace that power cable with one with a ground, will that fix the problem? Pretty it...
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Anonymous asked: I'm having a Silvertone 1485 repaired/restored in hopes of using it with a 4x10 cabinet and there are problems. The tech has rewired it with two speaker jacks so each pair of 6L6's and each output transformer will run 2 speakers, but he says the original output transformers need to be replaced and the ones he got from Weber will not operate at 4ohms, as advertised. (I think he nearly...
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Anonymous asked: Hey Matt, did you by any chance studied Electronic Engineering or just kinda learned thanks to a divine force?
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Boss CE-3 Chorus mods
These are great, cheap chorus pedals. The only chorus sound I really like is that Cure/Depeche Mode/New Order thing, and the old Boss pedals do it.
Modding the CE-3 to CE-2 specs
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The input stage is the biggest difference between the two, and where most of the tone differences probably come from. The CE-2 has a bipolar transistor input stage, with the coupling cap first and a 470k...
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“Jim Marshall, OBE”
– July 29, 1923 – April 5, 2012
Anonymous asked: Hi Matt. Have you ever worked on a Sovtek Mig 100H? I recently bought a cheap one and I'm having trouble getting the high gain channel working. The low gain channel sounds loud and full, but the high gain channel sounds weak and quiet and certainly not high gain - kind of like when a cable isn't plugged in properly. At first I thought it was just a dead preamp tube because of how the...
