My Pedalboard for Summer 2022
My pedalboard just got a serious upgrade: a clock!
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K&K Bass Master Mods
I’ve written before about my love/hate relationship with my K&K Bass Master Rockabilly Plus. In short, the sound is phenomenal, but the execution is awful. After suffering with its flaws for the past 15 years, I finally decided I’d had enough and modded it.
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Tremolo
My pandemic staycation project: a Rick-Tone Trem-O-Drive for my Champ, Airline, and Rickenbacker single-ended amps.
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Telectro Model AS 360 Restoration draft
I bought this cool 1960s breakout tube amp/two-way speaker combo on eBay a few weeks ago for about $65. I serviced it, cleaned it up, and made a few modifications to make it a little more versatile for shop use.
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Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Cutting Out draft
This 1996 Fender Hot Rod Deluxe came in complaining of a soar throat. The output was quiet, but would crack loudly at the attack of a heavy strum. Dirty tube sockets? Broken solder joints? Dusty pots? Probably.
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Phantom Crackle
My buddy Ivan uses this combo-ified 1963 Band-Master as his backup. It suffered from a phantom crackle that would only appear after being warmed up for an hour or two. It had been in and out of another shop for over a year, and the problem was never successfully addressed.
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Smoking Carvin RX800 Powered Mixer
Somewhere around a decade ago, the Bottom Dwellers’ PA head took a flaming shit. It started smoking. It was out of warranty, and rather than deal with repairs and not having a PA for a while, we replaced it with a Mackie PPM1008. Ever since then, the Carvin PA has functioned as my amp stand.
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The Illusive Phantom Crackle
The illusive phantom crackle that plagued this early 60s Fender Bandmaster for years has finally been purged.
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Sliver-Face Champ
About three or four years ago, I found myself falling down a rabbit hole of tube amp repair videos. It started innocently enough with the humble idea of building a custom foot-switchable preamp/mixer for my double bass. That lead to me building a few guitar stomp boxes. Before I knew it, I was watching hours and hours of tube amp repair videos every week.