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antipodean wrote:A solid-state rectifier is not a bad thing per se, but it is a travesty to change the specs of a classic amp like the AC30

You said it! "Let's take that classic design and improve it....."

Speakers now starting to break in.... I don't know why everyone bitches about the Chinese Blues. This thing just sings.... its now my favorite, and I have a vintage Deluxe Reverb and a Carr Vincent to compare it to.

paologregorio wrote:The microphonic character of even the new EF86s is significant enough for Korg/Vox to wrap the tube on the new amps with some sort of funky adhesive padded mute around the tube when the amp is built.

I believe its heat-shrink tubing.

The JJ I replaced it with was a great improvement.

My McPherson 4.5 XP.

Steve, does your inside-wiring look like the Ric Schematics or has somebody changed things before you got the guitars ? Funny that both your Neck pickups, on both guitars, would sound muddy. I changed the .0047uf cap on an HB1 recently (Bridge position) and it really makes a difference on accentuat...

That's some great info there, thanks for sharing it. The NOS Mullard short mesh just got here so I'm going to try that and hope for fewer rattles.

Changed how, added a cap ----- bypassed?

I have scatterwound toasters - 24 fret neck. This neck pickup sounds like any other pickup with the tone rolled all the way off. Its WAY to muddy - not bassy. Since these pickups aren't dedicated neck or bridge - I know there's some kind of low pass filtering going on. I just want to bypass whatever...

One of the greatest voices in Rock. R.I.P. Ronnie.

I'm saying that stock - the neck pickup on the 330 sounds like there is a blanket over the amp.

Here's the deal. There's a cap on it already that cuts all the highs out, it just sounds totally muffled on its own. I was wondering if anyone bypassed it and got any kind of usable tone from it on its own. It has so little high frequency information - I would find it unusable even as a "jazz&q...

I just ordered a NOS Mullard short mesh EF86 from Mike K at KCA Tubes. The JJ started to rattle a bit even with the dampers on it - but only on a G chord.... :shock: This amp has so much balls on the EF86 channel. I tried it with the output switched to the triode mode - and it really smoothed out th...

Hey everyone. I love playing my 330 six and twelve, I just wish the neck pickup was "usable". Its lack of treble with the stock wiring means I can't use it by itself. Anyone bypass the cap and use the neck pickup alone?

The Farndurk is an Orange Squeezer clone - there are others on the market (Analogman). The Janglebox is noisier than the Keeley, therefore not suitable for my apps. I think a lot of getting the "sound" you want or hear comes from the interaction between your amplifier's settings and compre...

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