RickyLee
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. . . and I have to say I am blown away to say the least. There is no "mud" goin' on on any channel. And CH3 is far from being "bright". Those are the words I kept reading about this amp on the web when I started looking into this amp. I picked this thing up for an amazing price from someone that needed to get rid of it for money to pay bills supposedly.
I did a quick checking up on things before I cranked it up here in my living room. The bias is a bit on the cold side at 26mA and 466V on the plates. It has a mix of two Mesa 6L6GC STR 430's on the outer sockets and two Mesa 6L6GC STR 420's on the middle/inner sockets - all biased within a few mA of each other. I have not taken the cover off of the five 12AX7's yet to see what's in there.
It just has a rip in the tolex on the top left joint as well as the joint is a bit separated. The kid said it had not been dropped or anything and I did not see any signs of that. He said that quite a bit of weight had been stacked on it. So I will have to fix that later.
But anyway, I was expecting to have to do some mods on this thing. But clarity on all channels and modes is awesome. And the reverb works great on all channels as well. So I will looki into it later to see if anyone did any work on it. The kid said it had no mods performed on it.
Only bummer is it does not have the 6 button footswitch, only the 5 button. So I will either have to find me a 6 button (anyone here have one for sale?) or mod it to take a separate one button footswitch for the EQ.
I am flat out stoked. This thing sounds better than the DC-10 I just got a few weeks ago.
I did a quick checking up on things before I cranked it up here in my living room. The bias is a bit on the cold side at 26mA and 466V on the plates. It has a mix of two Mesa 6L6GC STR 430's on the outer sockets and two Mesa 6L6GC STR 420's on the middle/inner sockets - all biased within a few mA of each other. I have not taken the cover off of the five 12AX7's yet to see what's in there.
It just has a rip in the tolex on the top left joint as well as the joint is a bit separated. The kid said it had not been dropped or anything and I did not see any signs of that. He said that quite a bit of weight had been stacked on it. So I will have to fix that later.
But anyway, I was expecting to have to do some mods on this thing. But clarity on all channels and modes is awesome. And the reverb works great on all channels as well. So I will looki into it later to see if anyone did any work on it. The kid said it had no mods performed on it.
Only bummer is it does not have the 6 button footswitch, only the 5 button. So I will either have to find me a 6 button (anyone here have one for sale?) or mod it to take a separate one button footswitch for the EQ.
I am flat out stoked. This thing sounds better than the DC-10 I just got a few weeks ago.