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Great amp with a great story. About ten yrs ago a buddy of mine's dad bought an old local radio shop that had been sitting unused since the 70's. this was a big building and was the place to go in the 50's & 60's to buy tubes,records and get anything electronic repaired. anyway when the owner died the family left everything as it was and just closed up shop. so i get a call from my buddy about a week after they moved in and started cleaning up cause he sorta knows i'm into this old electronic stuff. I come away with some great stuff just given to me, old tube amps of various makes' Bogen etc some really cool old NIB enclosures 2 brand new still in the box 12" Jensen bluebell spkrs. When I asked about tubes he said they had threw a whole dumpster full away a few days b-4 
. on to the amp I was at a local recording studio while the Ky Headhunters were tracking & the guitarist Greg Martin comes in with an old Vox ac30 he has that needs spkrs long story short I trade hime the 2 jensens to 2 gibson amps 1 a lil tweed scout the other the ga2-rvt. I fell in love with this lil amp, great reverb sick tremelo and tone for days. I sold the lil scout to a buddy who ended up trading it for a 57 B3 with leslie! I've still got the maestro and have been using it until recently for my main amp. it's getting pretty noisy & uses 6eu7 preamp tubes so I thought I would restore the amp and maybe change it over to 12ax7's
I was having a hard time finding a schematic finally got a hold of some fellow @ gibson who sent me the schematic along with the info that this amp was kinda rare so I decided not to mess with it. Now i'm planning a 5e3 build as a replacement. & maybe trying to clone the old Gibson as my next project.
my questions are this would it hurt the value of my amp to recap it to clean it up for studio use? and on the clone would 12ax7's make much difference in the tone? btw I'm willing to send or post the schematic, pic's or whatever anyone wants this would make a really cool build or Kit for anyone interested. kinda like a 5e3 w/ rvb & trem about the size of a tweed deluxe too
. on to the amp I was at a local recording studio while the Ky Headhunters were tracking & the guitarist Greg Martin comes in with an old Vox ac30 he has that needs spkrs long story short I trade hime the 2 jensens to 2 gibson amps 1 a lil tweed scout the other the ga2-rvt. I fell in love with this lil amp, great reverb sick tremelo and tone for days. I sold the lil scout to a buddy who ended up trading it for a 57 B3 with leslie! I've still got the maestro and have been using it until recently for my main amp. it's getting pretty noisy & uses 6eu7 preamp tubes so I thought I would restore the amp and maybe change it over to 12ax7's I was having a hard time finding a schematic finally got a hold of some fellow @ gibson who sent me the schematic along with the info that this amp was kinda rare so I decided not to mess with it. Now i'm planning a 5e3 build as a replacement. & maybe trying to clone the old Gibson as my next project.
my questions are this would it hurt the value of my amp to recap it to clean it up for studio use? and on the clone would 12ax7's make much difference in the tone? btw I'm willing to send or post the schematic, pic's or whatever anyone wants this would make a really cool build or Kit for anyone interested. kinda like a 5e3 w/ rvb & trem about the size of a tweed deluxe too
Cheers! John
I think I will recap it and see how that helps any good place to get 6eu7's?? thanks for the reply
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