I've heard some pretty good mods by Lee.. but it seemed to be hit or miss ... The Dokken under lock and key album is Don's 69 super lead for the rhythm guitars ...I've talked to Don about it and he let me play through it......that one sounds great...and is the mod he shows in those videosReeltarded wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 6:20 am Just thought of this; We aren't itching for Kolbe mods.. nobody wants a Jackson mod... everyone wants to know which legs to cut off the spider. Everyone wants a Jose mod.. ask Mark Cameron. Without Jose, there would not be rock, nor Dave Friedman.
I hope Mark comes along sometime and sees this.
Actually ...Jose had some pretty bad mods ...lots of people hated his stuff and were de-modding them ...plus a bunch of them with the diode clipping ..killed the diodes ..so the sound would lose gain over time and it seems most tech's couldn't figure out that was the problem. The mod I do and the master I do is actually not the way Jose did it. Jose ..when he did the clipping as part of the mod ...not all Jose mods had the clipping circuit.....he would use a very hard to find these days... duel pot with a switch....and switch between a pre tone stack master and a post tone stack master as well as add a tube....which I don't. The mod I do is not the same as Jose's....but people seem to think it is. When I worked at a store called A/V music ....we bought Jose's shop at an auction. Got a bunch of amps ...some not finished ..that I think were for the DLR tour but never finished....as well as a few rock star amps ...like Mick Mars and others ...these I completed the mods using his parts ...so there are a bunch of amps that people think are "Jose" mods out there and the owner ...who was a real goof ..sold them as real Jose mods ...something I was not happy about. BUT ...I already had a mod I was doing for a few years before this Jose mod stuff started.... that people call the Aldrich mod ...but Doug didn't get his until the mid 90s ...before this it was just my mod ..Cameron mod ..the internet and forums made the Aldrich name stick as it's name ...John Norum used it in the early 90s before Doug and I also did a bunch for a store in Tokyo in 1990 -91 .......I kept getting asked to do Jose's mod ..but I don't like to copy other people's mods ...a liked mine better....haha ....but I was asked so much ....and Jose was gone ...so I came up with my own version of the basic idea ...without the master switching before and after the tone stack stuff ....I put a switch to give different clipping levels and made the bright caps switchable ...added a resonance/depth pot ...and didn't add an extra tube by leaving out the normal channel side he left in...as well as the circuit is a little different than his. If my version didn't get as popular as it did ...people would lump Jose into the Lee category as he did a lot of mods that sounded ..well lets just say....not so good... ..My version is the one people and some companies are copying but say it's just a Jose mod ...it's not ...but whatever ..it is what it is.....so that's a bit of the Jose story some may not know.....