Thursday, January 19, 2017

New Mot's Mods and Customs on their way!


 A cool 90's CH 1 I got on ebay!  Took forever but sounds great!  I got the mod kit from Monte Allums Mods already and am looking forward to see what it can do!  (You can also see the box with the MXR Phase 45 Diy  kit for the future)


I finally am ready to start putting in handwired boards on some cool original Joker Fuzz themed Fuzzface pedals I am creating.  These will be totally unique and I am custom designing.  I am going to finish these here at my apartment while going to college.  I will have the one in this photo done first before I do anything else!  I'm so stoked!  Stay posted...

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe reissue is a great amp after all!


I repaired one for a local shop!  A lot of work but it turns out that a hot biased amp burned out a Power Tube and next cooked the pads next to the infamous Cement Power Resistors and the 2watt one on the footswitch causing all sorts of trouble.  You can see the yellowing board on this pic!  The replacements you have to put standing off the board at least a quarter inch!  Its funny, but with a few replacement parts, this amp sounds as good as a boutique amp and can rival many expensive amps easily.  The clean tone and tube squeal when pushed is phenomenal!  I wouldn't have placed a Overdrive effect on this amp though.  It really overloads it .  Its better to just have one main volume and push the tubes with boost like effects!


You see those big caps! I am replacing those next!

Circuit Boards replaced the old Point to Point Wiring, I don't know why!

Cooked looking spot behind Cement Power Resistors

Cooked Resistor connecting footswitch and various switching functions.


Cool new replacement knobs for my Studio Room Amp.



Its wild to think, but in a medium sized studio space this little amp compresses heavy guitar sounds and works great with wild distortion and fuzz pedals.  There has been some great results so far with a real bottled lightning effect!  I got the idea from Frank Zappa.  He would use a small Pignose amp and experiment with it in the studio.  I want to experiment with different types of rooms as well!