Well, I finally found the time to put the Mercury Magnetics transformers into my DC-5. I sent the original ones in to be cloned.
I will have to ask Paul if he beefed up the filament windings. I had mentioned that it would be nice to be able to use EL-34's in this amp. Mesa uses the same transformers in almost all of their 50 watt amps, but this amp uses the filament taps for the channel switching functions too, so I don't know if the originals have enough amperage for the EL's.
I biased it and test drove it for around 20 minutes or so.
Here is what I found:
Cleans are spanky and clean! For the 1st time in this amp's life, it actually has a clean channel! I can only get it to break up if the gain is cranked to 10!
There is a ton of sustain on the clean channel too!
I can't tell you how many small mods I've done to the amp to try and squeeze some more clean out of it.
I didn't even try the dirty channel yet, too busy exploring the cleans.
:lol: :lol: :lol: In hind sight, I guess I didn't really have much to report yet. Except that this amp actually has a clean channel now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will have to ask Paul if he beefed up the filament windings. I had mentioned that it would be nice to be able to use EL-34's in this amp. Mesa uses the same transformers in almost all of their 50 watt amps, but this amp uses the filament taps for the channel switching functions too, so I don't know if the originals have enough amperage for the EL's.
I biased it and test drove it for around 20 minutes or so.
Here is what I found:
Cleans are spanky and clean! For the 1st time in this amp's life, it actually has a clean channel! I can only get it to break up if the gain is cranked to 10!
There is a ton of sustain on the clean channel too!
I can't tell you how many small mods I've done to the amp to try and squeeze some more clean out of it.
I didn't even try the dirty channel yet, too busy exploring the cleans.
:lol: :lol: :lol: In hind sight, I guess I didn't really have much to report yet. Except that this amp actually has a clean channel now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!