First things first, you're going to need to learn how to solder.  A good way to do this is a simple effects pedal.  I would suggest my 5th gear overdrive, its easy to build and will get you on your way to learning how to do stuff like this.

Lets see if you can tell me what any of this is:

Quote from: rockgardenlove on December 06, 2006, 03:07:11 PM
I emailed Kustom for you...they said they'll sell you a schematic for 15 bucks.  That could be well worth it if your heart is set on modding.

You could use that cash to build a pedal though too, that's what I'd do.

I'd buy the schematic, but I like knowing how my amps are wired.

Normally you would want to use a lower value resistor as most of the times they attenuate the signal.

Quote from: teemuk on December 05, 2006, 09:04:29 AM
Be careful with that board: If you lift a trace by applying too much heat it will be pretty difficult thing to fix.

Yeah, thats a big issue.  I repaired a Fender 30w Bass amp and used too much heat and starting lifting the traces...what a mess.  I eventually fixed it by using some PCB trace in a tube, I forget what it's called.

Thats wanting me to log in to view...I don't have a photobucket account.  There must be a way to hot link the photos.

Keep in mind you could build the pedal's circuit and put it into the amp's housing so that you would plug straight into your amp still.

Well, you could put a distortion in front of it (if you like a pretty nice "driving" overdrive, check out my 5th gear overdrive in the schematics section, its wicked easy to build) or you could run a booster in front like an LPB-1 or similar, that will push the amp into distortion.  As far as modding the amp itself for more gain, it should be easy, but only with the schematic for the amp. 

I did a quick google search for it with no luck, but if you search long enough with enough different terms it should be out there somewhere.  If not, you could take it apart and take a decent high res pic of it and we should be able to help you out with that.

I don't personally know anyone that has done the tube front end, but I do know it has been done.  Lots of companies sell them like that.

We'd have to see the schematic.

I would agree, by ear is the way to go.  Who cars if it looks good on a scope, unless it sounds good it doesn't matter.

Tell me about it...this guy got into a few other forums, one of which I frequent (teamzx2.com) and it's getting old.  I'm waiting on Chris to delete the PMs, I don't know how to do that, I think he would need to use an SQL to do it and I don't have access directly to the database.

If people have junk from this clown in their PM folders, let me know and Chris and I will get rid of it.  It's important to let us know even if you delete it yourself, this way we know we have to look through the PMs and make sure he didn't message a bunch of other people.

I googled his email address and a ton of other forums have had problems with this guy.

Here is his info:

Email: donald92135@yahoo.com
IP: 172.191.111.118   
Hostname: ACBF6F76.ipt.aol.com   

email or PM here on SSGuitar.com?

I'm on it.  I'll talk to Chris about a way to get that to not happen again.