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Welcome to the forum. I have two of those exact Avatar cabs, absolutely love them. Both closed back with Mesa V30’s. They roar. Dom

I tried the trem block, yes it keeps it returning to tune but I enjoy that up/down vibrato you get with a full floater. I was only repeatedly dive bombing to test the trem, I use it more for whole step bends and vibrato, but yea a good dive bomb at the end of a phrase feels great. Live this is...

The guitar was a lot more stable, much better, but it’s still just a tad flat when returning to zero, just enough to make my Peterson Strobe Tuner just start to rotate CCW. A slight tug and the strobe stops dead. At least now it’s not really noticeable live, not like with the other bridge, I...

Welcome to the forum. Quickly researching the Blues Jr FSR you can’t easily do this. You need direct access to the FSR’s speaker. You could take off the back, disconnect the speaker from the amp, and connect a speaker cable with 1/4” plug to the FSR’s speaker and plug that into the Fillmore...

Man that is some serious hack work there. It’s stories like this that has made me pull the chassis of any used amp I buy and scan for shade-tree tech work. I’m sure you don’t want to, but you should consider pulling that entire board. Whoever was in there was not skilled at all with a...

Welcome to the forum! There is only one fuse, the mains fuse on the back. Is there anything different about how you have the rhythm channel setup? For example, is the EQ only used on the rhythm channel. This is most likely a preamp tube issue. If the DC-5 has the same preamp tube layout of...

Swapped bridges today, so far so good, we’ll find out for sure tomorrow at practice. The chrome was flaking off at the knife edges, and the edge looks worn or distorted on the treble side. I already wore through the black coating on the posts. I tried to grab a picture but it’s hard to see...

Series FX Loop done. I literally just found a B25K push pull pot, I’ll swap that in so I can “pull for parallel” and eliminate having to use a jumper when there is nothing in the loop. Not that there will ever be nothing in the loop 🤣. I’ll be doing the Extreme switch for the NFB next, most...

Welcome to the forum. Dom

This popped up at a fair price, couldn’t pass it up. It’s a 9/10 cosmetically, an earlier serial number so late 1999 or early 2000. I’ll find out when I pull the chassis. It has what I believe are mostly it’s original tubes, a pair of RED STR-430 6L6GC’s, a Mesa SPAX7 that I think is an EH...

I also used smaller screws for the locking nut, #4 x 1/2” stainless steel. I added a shim under the locking nut to correct the break angle of the strings over the guitar’s nut. I bought a piece of 0.016” thick stainless, traced the nut on it and used a cutoff wheel in my dremel to rough it...

If bluesy rock ala Andy Timmons is the goal the Lonestar is the obvious choice. I found it takes pedals well, a good high gain pedal into the clean channel should work well. Yea it won’t be Mark series good, but that doesn’t seem to be the primary goal for you. Dom

Welcome to the form. This really depends how you use the amp. The Mark Series is known for its high gain capabilities. It’s a great lead players amp by itself. The Lonestar has fantastic cleans, takes pedals well, and it great on its own for overdrive and rock tones, but for that violin like...

I’ve watched the Floyd Rose video multiple times, it’s disappointingly just a step by step. I’ve also seen the Tony Makenzie video, great in depth review but nothing detailed about the bridge not returning to zero. I’ve been researching this for a while and there is not much in the sense of...

I really like the old BYOC TS808, and the analog chorus. Their parametric EQ is a solid pedal too. Dom

They are great amps, voiced a tad darker than your typical Dual, more along the lines of a Tremoverb. I love mine. It was professionally modded by Trace at Voodoo Amps about 10 years ago, it’s a beast. Dom

I think I have built 90% of the pedal kits from B.Y.O.C., haven’t bought an assembled cable in decades, guitar, TRS, MIDI, XLR etc. I had been thinking about an amp kit, was looking at the Marshall 18W TMB kit but might just go with a Champ. Dom

👏🏻👏🏻 This is the part of guitar playing I really enjoy. My soldering station is alway on my bench. Guess I should have gone the tech route LOL. Dom

Welcome to the forum. I gigged a 2001 Triple Recto for 6 years, never an issue. The past 15 years it’s been the Roadster. Lately I’ve changed it up and I’ve been digging the Triple Crown as my A-Rig. Like you, over those 15 years I’ve had a lot of amps come and go, but I always came back to...

+1 Anything to distribute the weight over a larger area. I carry two 2” x 3/4” thick pieces of synthetic lumber (plastic) that are as long as the amp head is deep in case it’s tight and I need to stack my heads for a set. I originally did it to clear the handle on my TC-100, but I noticed it...