Saturday, June 9, 2018

What you should know about buying a tube amp

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I am often asked for some opinions about what people should buy in the tube amp world. Here are my thoughts. First, the basic platform m...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

The Cowpoke Forty, or, How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Make My Own Bassman

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You know sometimes how you get an idea and you just can't shake it? Gotta scratch that itch? That's what happened here. The first ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Getting back to the basics of troubleshooting. Blackstar content.

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After the contretemps with the dual rectifier road king which has 33 knobs and 22 relays by actual count, I worked on a nice old Bassman on ...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Unstacking A Terror Bass And Looking For Tin Whiskers

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An Orange Terror Bass amp came in with a very strange complaint. The owner indicated that the treble control was inoperative. At first ...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Straight Outta Linden

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Mr. Brown, my Pawnshop Excelsior returned from its sojourn the other day. I guess the person who had borrowed it got tired of me whing...
Friday, April 13, 2018

The Avalanche Project

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A while ago I had a Deluxe Reverb Reissue come in with a blown power transformer, and of course they are made of unobtainium right abou...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

Measuring Your Voltages: Why To Do It.

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A relatively new Blues Junior III came in the other day because it wasn't making any sound....not a peep. The first thing I did after ...