The Amp Garage

I was looking into late 80's/ early 90's ODS and noticed that frequently HAD used those blue capacitors. I have been on a hunt trying to find out what they are. I have seen an early amp (maybe 18X serial - don't recall exactly) which had a A/E stamp on the blue caps at the PI. The one on the picture...

I have been increasingly curious if the 50Hz to 60Hz will have tonal impacts on my Bandmaster. :wink: 40:56 https://youtu.be/rNvOUmwPiUQ Yep! I was looking at Kikusui 500M, which is the smallest unit, but it costs over GBP 2K. Hard investment but I am close to pulling the trigger as soon as I have ...

Thank you very much for the note Neskor and Stevem. Really helpful

We commonly have variations of more than 3Vac in our mains power voltage at different times of day. Unless you can actively regulate the voltage, you're going to get changes unless the UK is much better at keeping it constant than we are in my part of the USA. to this. You are correct, in the UK th...

The easiest and cheapest solution would be to set up a bucking transformer to drop the 120V down to 117. This could be done using a 6.3V filament transformer rated for say 3A. The 50Hz vs. 60Hz makes the amp's power transformer operate closer to saturation, i.e. makes the core looks small. If it do...

I am on a rabbit hole recently. I own a '65 Fender Bandmaster, blackface. It was built to operate at 117V, 60Hz. I am based in the UK, with 240V mains and 50Hz cycles. My step down transformer gets my voltage down to 120V but does not change the cycles. I had ordered a Brown Box some time back to ge...

It lives!!! I thought I had a bad PT. When firing it up I got 340V on the plates and it sounded horrendous. After a lot of head scratching and calls to friends I pulled the power board only to realize I had missed a jumper between the incoming B+ and the reservoir caps. First impressions: It has a ...

Too bad he didn't play each amp individually

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I tried to order from them. The communication was very difficult. Even calling it was hard getting my orders in. I gave up after 6 months

Hi all, just wondering how would one repair the dust filter of a EVM 12L. Received the speaker today and left my 3 year old unattended for 3 seconds while I moved a can and boom, he managed to damage the thing, sigh

Sweetwater - Put your name in the hat and hurry up and wait https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EVM12L--electro-voice-evm12l-12-inch-8-ohm-guitar-speaker That's interesting, I have been looking into the new EVMs for a few weeks and up until a couple of days ago the only place globally that had ...

Great project, very cool ideas and sounds amazing

Thanks Steven, that does make sense, I appreciate the input

imjonwain wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:52 pm Might be worth asking Peavey? They used to be pretty good with tech support on old products.

I did send emails and they did not reply, I then went onwards to call but they were a bit reluctant to give me the information. I may try again...

Thanks Steve, yes the power tubes are 6x 6L6 on both iterations.

Makes sense! Thanks for the tip on the measurement, the only issue is that I do not have access to the 4/8ohms version