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by Optical
Sun May 08, 2022 10:14 am
Forum: DIY - BUILD YOUR OWN Amps
Topic: Whats on your amp workbench?
Replies: 470
Views: 123974

Re: Whats on your amp workbench?

Hahaha
Can you read the top of them?
by Optical
Fri May 06, 2022 1:35 pm
Forum: DIY - BUILD YOUR OWN Amps
Topic: Whats on your amp workbench?
Replies: 470
Views: 123974

Re: Whats on your amp workbench?

JHorner wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 9:56 am Got a couple of weeks use from the Microblock 45, now it is a headphone amp only. Nothing happening at the speaker out.

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What are the three ICs on that board?
by Optical
Thu May 05, 2022 2:38 pm
Forum: Guitar Mods
Topic: Re-carve a neck profile
Replies: 20
Views: 5517

Re: Re-carve a neck profile

Ive done it lots of times with fender necks. 80 grit makes short work of thinning down the thick areas, then start smothing once in about the right shape
by Optical
Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:54 am
Forum: The Studio
Topic: Promo vid for my band
Replies: 15
Views: 4314

Re: Promo vid for my band

griff wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:06 pm
Optical wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 4:30 pm That's cool man
Do you have unprocessed stems you might want to share? I'd like to have a crack at remixing
Audio or video Matt?
I'm assuming you mean video
oh just audio - video was all good :)
by Optical
Wed Apr 06, 2022 4:30 pm
Forum: The Studio
Topic: Promo vid for my band
Replies: 15
Views: 4314

Re: Promo vid for my band

That's cool man
Do you have unprocessed stems you might want to share? I'd like to have a crack at remixing
by Optical
Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:18 pm
Forum: Guitar Mods
Topic: Anyone have an SD Lil59, or similar for Strat?
Replies: 9
Views: 4154

Re: Anyone have an SD Lil59, or similar for Strat?

rickenbackerkid wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 8:31 pm Yes indeed it is.
I'll swap you in that case. Send me a pm to organise
by Optical
Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:52 am
Forum: Guitar Mods
Topic: Anyone have an SD Lil59, or similar for Strat?
Replies: 9
Views: 4154

Re: Anyone have an SD Lil59, or similar for Strat?

Is your super distortion single size?
by Optical
Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:28 am
Forum: DIY - BUILD YOUR OWN Amps
Topic: Whats on your amp workbench?
Replies: 470
Views: 123974

Re: Whats on your amp workbench?

I fixed a classic 30 once by completely gutting it and building a friedman circuit into it
by Optical
Fri Mar 04, 2022 5:29 pm
Forum: Guitars
Topic: Guitar dispute, anyone got a lawyer friend?
Replies: 80
Views: 9645

Re: Guitar dispute, anyone got a lawyer friend?

FYI this sets out the state of the law in NZ in plain terms https://www.consumerprotection.govt.nz/general-help/ways-to-buy-and-pay/private-sales-and-second-hand-goods/ You would have to establish you were misled or deceived. On the balance I don't see anything from the seller that would support a s...
by Optical
Wed Feb 16, 2022 12:47 pm
Forum: Pickups
Topic: Fender American Strat Professional II: HSS or SSS?
Replies: 44
Views: 9750

Re: Fender American Strat Professional II: HSS or SSS?

On one of my strats I have HSS (JB Jr in the bridge) and the lower tone knob has been replaced with a rotary switch for coil splitting the JB - can do SSS or HSS. I almost never split the bridge or use position 2, but I'm also not at all funky
by Optical
Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:19 pm
Forum: GAS
Topic: Ok learn us about Kempers?
Replies: 28
Views: 4395

Re: Ok learn us about Kempers?

Dunno if you guys have tried the rig profiler in TH-U but it has kemper profiles you can hoon without a kemper
by Optical
Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:37 pm
Forum: Amp Talk
Topic: Marshall SV20
Replies: 62
Views: 10714

Re: Marshall SV20

Marshall tsl has a fender clean channel. Underrated amp
by Optical
Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:58 pm
Forum: Amp Talk
Topic: Marshall SV20
Replies: 62
Views: 10714

Re: Marshall SV20

I suspect they have taken a leaf from PA system design, where the speaker is less important than the overall cabinet design. In PA system world, no one gives a shit what the speaker size is, they care about how it sounds and how loud it can go. The SV20 seems to work great, loud, clear, good disper...
by Optical
Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:33 am
Forum: Amp Talk
Topic: VHT Special 6 Project
Replies: 63
Views: 8336

Re: VHT Special 6 Project

The lower the volume, the more the bright cap c11 is going to be creating top end in the tone. The tone control is a low pass filter, so that is designed to suppress high end/treble. Your settings of 4 and 6 don't suggest they were doing much to control treble which begs the question, did you try a ...
by Optical
Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:12 pm
Forum: Amp Talk
Topic: Peavey Classic 50 scooby mystery
Replies: 22
Views: 4943

Re: Peavey Classic 50 scooby mystery

I really doubt a small fluctuation in wall voltage will turn an amp from great to crap, or even be audible at all. More likely there's some circuit issue, those classic 30/50 amps have a terrible design and are prone to many issues. I've rebuilt a few and junked the entire internals. Could be the wa...