Cejay, I don't intend the following to sound critical or like I'm doubting your ears...I am asking out of curiosity, and what I want to know applies to both this thread and the one about the JC120.
I'm curious about the point at which you decide to open the amp up and modify it, including what direction you want to modify it in. In your first post on this thread, you say that the main problem with these amps is the caps in them, which might mean more to someone with more electronics experience than me. But I'd like to know what you objected to that you couldn't address with different knob positions, or a pedal or two.
I do kind of like some of those non-DSP Fender SS combos (in particular, I like how they seem to stay pretty clean and bright, but be housed in kind of cheap-ass cabinetry, with speakers that seem to give it up early...so you can get a sort of amp-meltdown-chaos effect from them without using a lot of fizzy preamp gain. One of my favorite lap steel tones ever achieved came from a borrowed cranked Princeton Chorus, on a friend's recording). Anyway, in my case, I always felt able to tame overall brightness sufficiently by just adjusting the EQ differently than I would on my own amp. So I wonder what you experience upon plugging into the thing and deciding "I can't get it to do what I want without opening it up and replacing some __________________." Can't get rid of enough highs? Mid control not adjusting a center frequency you like? Something about the character of the hot channels dirt tone you thought you could improve on with circuit mods? That kind of thing is what I'd be interested to know, both here and in the JC thread.
Thanks
I'm curious about the point at which you decide to open the amp up and modify it, including what direction you want to modify it in. In your first post on this thread, you say that the main problem with these amps is the caps in them, which might mean more to someone with more electronics experience than me. But I'd like to know what you objected to that you couldn't address with different knob positions, or a pedal or two.
I do kind of like some of those non-DSP Fender SS combos (in particular, I like how they seem to stay pretty clean and bright, but be housed in kind of cheap-ass cabinetry, with speakers that seem to give it up early...so you can get a sort of amp-meltdown-chaos effect from them without using a lot of fizzy preamp gain. One of my favorite lap steel tones ever achieved came from a borrowed cranked Princeton Chorus, on a friend's recording). Anyway, in my case, I always felt able to tame overall brightness sufficiently by just adjusting the EQ differently than I would on my own amp. So I wonder what you experience upon plugging into the thing and deciding "I can't get it to do what I want without opening it up and replacing some __________________." Can't get rid of enough highs? Mid control not adjusting a center frequency you like? Something about the character of the hot channels dirt tone you thought you could improve on with circuit mods? That kind of thing is what I'd be interested to know, both here and in the JC thread.
Thanks