The Amp Garage

OK, My caps came in and I went ahead and did what Martin suggested and soldered the 22u cap across the R3 resistor. That did make a small change in bringing out a bit of the bottom end. I went ahead and did the same with the other 2 stages by soldering the 22u cap across R6 and R12. That helped a bi...

Thanks everyone for your help and input! What I have already done to tame the high gain is to replace V1 with a NOS RCA 12AU7 long black plate. I also replaced V2 & V5 with NOS black plate GE 12AT7's. This has helped a lot with the high gain harshness the amp originally had. V3 & V4 EL-84's have bee...

I just joined this forum as I'm trying to improve the tone on my Crate VC20 and found this great post. I'm really not needing to do all the mods that oldmacman presented here but I am trying to get more bass out of this little amp. Compared to my Fender Princeton Reverb this little Crate has no bott...