The Amp Garage

looks cool.

Vanilla!!!

I think I am in over my head with this one.

OK, I went through and removed preamp tubes one by one and the sound persisted. I think the tubes are fine. Now knowing the PPIMV may be an issue, I turned it back and forth and the oscillation did lessen and grow depending on the direction I turned the knob. I assume this is due to the amount of po...

As for the noise, It started AFTER the single ended switch was removed. Before that is had an issue with squealing. So, I imagine something went wrong there. The history of the amp is murky because this was a purchase from Reverb.com that never went quite right. Pics, Will do. I appreciate all of th...

Pics are here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pil8y4ri345rkod/AACGBV51eDSc3YCvnE_ZAA-4a?dl=0 Previous "Back to Bassman" mods are: *MetroAmp PPIMV installed. *Grounded Power Cord. *Bias Pot. *NOS period correct Hammond Choke @ 12 henries. *Filter Caps Dropped to 32uf and 16uf (like old plexi or tweed). *...

Picked up the amp and plugged it in.
something is definitely wrong.
it does this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6pvbkke60aok3 ... 2.mov?dl=0

any ideas?

Thanks for the help.
I told him to give me the Traynor and I am going to get a Multimeter tomorrow.

this is moving fast, I love it.

so, an opportunity just came up. A friend has a Traynor YBA4 that has been modded and is not working. He says he'll give it to me if I want to use it as a repair platform. This seems cool and is near complete. it just has this issue with one tube pulsing and creating a weird trem like sound. Any ide...

Haven’t done a full budget but I have some spare cash for this. Tools. Not much. Just a soldering station and some wire cutters.

At this point I am a bored old man. I have built up a few pedals and rewired guitars in my time, but that is all. Where does an old dog start with this sort of thing? I am not too picky about which style to build because at this point I just want to see if I can make something work. I'll be hanging ...