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Here is some info I grabbed years ago off a post on one of the forums about the best quality modern GZ34/5AR4 to get. I believe it is probably better than...
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Two 100uF caps in series result in a 50uF cap at twice the voltage. Vintage 5AR4's/GZ34's could handle 60uF in the first stage, though I wouldn't try that...
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Another thing to consider when comparing tones of modern pickups to vintage pickups is how the metals are made and how that has changed over the years. No...
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My grandpa was a ham radio guy and he used 813's quite a lot. I inherited his stuff, which included some ham radio thing he was building that was supposed...
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Hunt down some old electronics surplus stores if there are still some in your area and find the huge resistors that look like a big tube. You can likely get...
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For those in the Portland, OR area, a celebration of life will be held. Here are the details.
Greg
https://www.dignitymemorial....
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I've got an early Sunn 2000S head and cabinet and it uses that massive Dynaco output transformer in it. I need to rebuild it but it still works well. Conrad...
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Conrad Sundholm RIP
For those who may not have heard, Conrad Sundholm, co-founder of Sunn passed away Monday after a year long illness. He was able to spend the last month or...
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Late to the party as I couldn't get in here for awhile. At first I thought it was a small bump in the road, someone forgot to renew something etc., but it...
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The air coils with collapsible formers look like an interesting way to make pickups, though a little more work than with bobbins. Will be interested to see...
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Are you going to wind them as air coils like the original Tri-Sonics or did the Korean ones use bobbins? The most accurate Tri-Sonic clones I know of are...
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Ha I guess so. I was born in Cali also but ended up in Oregon.
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The fact it was quick doesn't mean it was a rubber cement type adhesive. Hide glue sets pretty quick, within a minute at most, so you better get it right...
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I like hide glue myself, which is what Fender and others like Sunn historically used.
Greg
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Those blue coupling caps are great quality and sound very nice. I personally wouldn't replace any of those unless it was bad.
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I've experienced the screen compression thing with a Silvertone 1484 that wanted to see a 4 ohm load but was going into an 8 ohm load. I doubt if the screen...
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You should get some 12AY7's. The EH tube is fine and sounds great and has good life. The thing about the 12AY7 is that it SOUNDS great. It gets a little less...
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If you didn't want the CHB100 for some reason I would be interested in it. I built myself a nice guitar amp out of one of these and would like to build another....
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I had a Rivera era Fender Super Champ that I traded for a Rickenbacker 4001 bass around 1992, and a Rivera era Fender Concert that I got disgusted with the...
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