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How do you do this? I just decided to replace my volume pot for my Custom 22 as it's going out and I'd like to know more. I think I bought a CTS pot but there is a cap on there and another wire soldered on the back. the cap is ceramic. Any suggestions?

Hey guys, what was the original Speaker that came with the Mark IIc+s? Mine says Electro voice Evm and I'd like to get 4 of them for a cabinet. do they still make them?

wouldn't it be nice if... Wow idea. Why doesn't somebody invent a plug that lets you use different pickups. Every guitar store could have one and you can audition pickups by putting them in the hole in the audition guitar or something! -Angel

How bout you try this. Raise your pickups, experiment with tubes (sounds stupid but it works) - I tried different brand tubes in different positions - maybe chinese in first position for mid crush, tung sol in v2 for depth and room, Electro Harmonics in v3 to darken it back up, then an EI in v4...

That's a good question!

The Black dot. What is that like the old hand mark pirates used to use?

I think the prices of II-B just went up! Great tone and interesting that you basically pointed out that these amps can sound like Gn'R and do the Marshall thing. It'd be nice to know what tubes you are using and what you're using the fx box for. Also, what kind of speaker is in there? Pretty...

Hey man. If you try gt-75's you might find it more forgiving :)

Yeah, Chip it's a simulclass and it's the outer two tubes, I tried 6l6's and it helped the bass a bit but when i turned it up, it still cut out and blew a preamp tube. so I put in some tubes in that I had in my mark IV that I knew worked and would chug for me along a high quality mesa russian v1...

Thanks Scott, I had the filter caps replaced here when i first got it so they should be ok. the tubes blew 3rd, then the 2nd, and 1. Some of them were microphonic. I have el-34's in it that i'm not sure are the right bias, could that cause it? The amp is fine until i turn it up a bit on the...

is it common to blow out preamp tubes by pushing them too hard on a mark iic+ I like high gain settings like 9.5 pulled, 9 pulled, 4 in, 7, 2 pulled, 8 pulled, 7 in, and I get a great crunch with my black shadow ev speaker, but i find myself nearly maxing the 80 hz slider since the (mine at...

Question... What would cause my Mark IIC+ to hum when you push in the bass pull shift on the gain channel but not when you pull it out?

Good point. I swapped out the preamp tubes and put some mesa tubes in, and it was not humming, so I put the tung sols back in and low and behold it was only humming a bit! I figured maybe it was that the tubes were in a different position and that's what caused less hum, so I went through and...

Local tech is Dave Sarge. I trust him to look it over and he knows a lot about older amps and teaches here at penn state (electrical engineering prof. i think). Anyway, he's a good guy and I'm looking forward to it with him. I always seem to learn something new. Only thing is the IIC+ is a...

Well, I had a cap job when I bought it over a year ago and I think I had the tech look over all the caps and resistors+ he give it a clean bill of health... you mean remove the speaker? I'm gonna have it checked here, and maybe one day when I get some extra mony give it to MB.

yeah, thanks. :lol: that would be so epic! Flame maple, Baby! As the amps became more and more highbrow and rare, people could look back and laugh, cry and marvel at how simple we were. I would send it to mesa but the shipping on a 80lb? combo has got to be outrageous. As for Calling Mesa...

I'm just going to burn it...

Anybody?

well.... boom might be a little extreme but it seems these things always happen when you are getting back into music and getting your life straight. I put some new tubes in my baby and was really diggin the sound (tung sols, wing c) and was like (yeah!) But it needs bit more. So I tried on a...

OOOOPS! I meant to PM Boogiebabies.... but posted instead.