Recent content by Version_6

Because I run an amp repair/modification business and have a variac on my bench. I hate step transformers and the inconvenience isn't worth it to many of us. When I'm done with the amp it'll be sold off so the end goal is to see whether I sell the transformer or whether I can rewind it.

I picked up a green stripe MKIII to develop some mods for including dedicated input gain controls for the rhythm/lead and clean channels and whatnot, and being in a 240V country, the having to use my variac to power it is annoying. The local distributor has a suitable transformer but it's $500...

I've got a customers Rev G in for some new tubes and a bias mod and I freaked out when I plugged it in and saw the bias light was on without the power switch being on! My current limited didn't go off and there wasn't any magic smoke, so I powered it down and opened it up. To my shock I saw an...

Ok cool. Pretty sure I found it, 22.1k right next to the tiny filter caps. Time to warm up the Hakko 701 and get this done. Got a nice set of reissue Tung Sol 6L6's bound for it.

I've done bias mods on two and three channel rectifiers but this is the first multiwatt I've had to do. Before I go probing around to track down the resistors, I was hoping someone had already done the mod before and save me a few minutes and point me to them. I tried searching around but only...

Howdy, name's Six (yep, real name). Been playing for most my life and am an avid gear nut. Figured I'd sign up given I've owned a chunk of Boogie gear over the years and am probably going to get some more. Up till recently I had a Triaxis/2;90 rig that was my main from when I bought it new in...