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The EMGs are active pickups and your sound suffers less treble roll-off through the guitar cable. As the Nomad is a dark amp (at least relatively, and with most speakers), EMGs help 'take the blanket off' if you are using a long cable (like 15 feet or more).

Hello Tom. Sorry for the slow response. I have not been visiting the Boogie Board very often lately and just saw your message. Find the schematics for the Mark V and Lonestar on the web and compare the CH 2 signal paths. They are almost identical in the preamps. The EDGE mode in the Mark V...

Weber ceramic Bluedog, 50 W light dope here. Probably in the same tonal universe as the Celestion Gold. Anyhow, sounds awesome in this amp, less mud but not shrill.

I think the "mud mods" should be considered part of so-called blueprinting, which is to say these mods are small tweaks entirely up to the user. What someone else considers mud you might consider tonal nirvana. In any case, even when you can get two guitarists to agree on tone, different...

Haven't used one except in the store, but keep your eyes open for a cheap used Digitech PMC-10 (discontinued). This has a full alphanumeric display and can send multiple MIDI PC messages on different MIDI channels so you can control several pieces of rack gear independently with one push of a...

The Gear Page contains some information on modifying the LSS that also apply to the Lone Star. Aside from swapping pots, these boil down to this: 1. Eliminate or reduce the 120 pF snubber cap in the PI. This is across a 100 k resistor on the plate of V5A. This brightens both channels by...

Spend a few bucks on a humidity meter (Radio Shack has them), then keep the humidity as close to 40 to 50 percent as you can all year around. Outside of this range, wood shrinks or expands. You shouldn't have a problem with most electronics unless the humidity gets close to 100 percent or...

Hello Pat You should use a soldering iron with a pointy tip so you can direct the heat precisely. If you have a pair of pointy-nosed needle-nose pliers, you can probably heat one pin at a time and just gently rock the capacitor and ease the pin out. Repeat for the other pin. This way you may...

500 pF capacitor: I can't confirm 100 percent -- I'm traveling and I don't have my photos of the amp innards here, but this looks like the one. You should confirm by comparing to the schematic. Do you have a DVM / continuity tester? You can follow the traces and confirm connections when in...

EFX return capacitor: Trace the wiring that feeds the OUTPUT control back to the board. Follow the traces to a 500 pF (.005 mfd) capacitor. Replace with a lower value. An earlier poster suggested 47 pF, which is what I used. This should stop RF without bleeding audible treble. The capacitor...

The PI mud mod is kind of subtle. I did the second mud mod too (reduces the capacitor value in the EFX return). This REALLY made a big difference IMHO. I can't argue that at some point it is less hassle to just buy a different amp, and the Mark V sure looks tempting! But before going this...

I just did the two mud removal mods to my Nomad: 1) lifted one end of each 120 pF capacitor in the PI, 2) lifted one end of the .005 uFd capacitor in the effect return circuit, replaced with 47 pF. The .005 capacitor is located on the upper left edge of the PCB (when you are facing the rear of...