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Hello Guys,
I have taken just bout every screw out of my Hot Rod Deluxe and I am going to modify it in a few days (or try to at least!). I want to remove the reverb knob and add a 1/4 inch socket in its place. I will then hook up a cable (mono or stereo - whichever is needed) to that and another receptor at the other end. This receptor will be connected to a potentiometer on a pedal (just like a voume pedal). I have no idea what I am doing but I am going to try anyways. I have biased my own amp as well as rewired and modded my Strat. Besides the usual, be careful and don't electrocute yourself, does anyone have any advice on this for me? If anyone knows how to do this, detailed explanation would be much appreciated! Like I said, I am doing this in a few days with or without a response. I think I can figure it out but would like some help, if possible.
Thanks!
John
I have taken just bout every screw out of my Hot Rod Deluxe and I am going to modify it in a few days (or try to at least!). I want to remove the reverb knob and add a 1/4 inch socket in its place. I will then hook up a cable (mono or stereo - whichever is needed) to that and another receptor at the other end. This receptor will be connected to a potentiometer on a pedal (just like a voume pedal). I have no idea what I am doing but I am going to try anyways. I have biased my own amp as well as rewired and modded my Strat. Besides the usual, be careful and don't electrocute yourself, does anyone have any advice on this for me? If anyone knows how to do this, detailed explanation would be much appreciated! Like I said, I am doing this in a few days with or without a response. I think I can figure it out but would like some help, if possible.
Thanks!
John
. Then I soldered 3 very thin, unshielded wires to the circuit board where the pot came from and hooked them up to the jack. I guessed that the left-most pin of the pot was the ground due to my multi-meter resistance testing (I think 20K was the setting?). Oh, I think this is important...I soldered a piece of wire from one pot on each side of the reverb spot (Presence and ?Treble?...I don't know) anyway, I think that verifies that they are grounded. Next move was to make a stereo cable which I did with an old mic cord. I used my project box from Radioshack to host the reverb knob which came directly from the amp's circuit board (recycle!), a stomp-switch and a jack. If you get this far then you know what you are doing and can set that up easily on your own and add an LED light. The knob on my pedal works and I didn't install an LED light but the switch doesn't work. I'm pretty confident that I can make one soon with an expression pedal, and on/off and an LED but I will need to do a bt more research. In essence, all I have done so far is move the reverb knob about 10 feet away from where it was. Its pretty cool tho. I definitely suggest a swinging door on the back of the amp. This would mke it easier to line up the spot for the jack before you drill but also (and I did this!) once you get the jack mounted onto the back of your amp and its all one big piece, and you put it in place only to find out you messed upon the location of the jack by about an 1/8 of an inch; you may pull the back off to set it down and forget that its hooked to your circuit board which, if you are lucky, will only tear out those 3 wires you just put in. I also fried a part of the circuit board cause I didn't have the board bolted down when I turned on the amp but I just resoldered a connection and its fine.
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