scottcrud
Well-known member
Our own Andy "Monstatone" Turner.
Andy is a top notch tech. I highly recommend him. I bought a 1988 .50 Cal+ head about a year and a half ago. Got a great deal on it on e-bay. When I got it the clean channel was super noisy and the lead channel was just ok. ( I have a 1990 .50 Cal+ head in tip top order to compare to). I started e-mailing Andy, told him I thought it probably need new caps and probably needed a complete overhaul, he agreed. I then told him about my 1990 .50Cal+, how I had Kendrick amps install 100 watt transformers and switch the 6L6's out for 6550's. He seemed intrigued... I told him I'd like to do the same to my new head except I wanted "True" 50 watt transformers cause the wimpy trannys on the .50Cal do not put out 50 watts. Andy said let me think about this and talk to some people and I'll get back with you. So a day later he calls me and tells me he been taking to the owner of Mercury Magnetics and has just what I need. And to my surprise Andy said I only needed to replace the output transformer to achieve what I wanted. I was skeptical since I had shelled out $650.00 in 1998 to Kendrick amps... He asked me to trust him, so I shipped my amp to him. He e-mailed me during the process, and called me 3-4 days after he got my amp to tell me it was done and sounded GREAT! First of all, I was like finished? What? From the time I shipped my amp to Andy I had it back within two weeks. He also added a 4,8,16 ohm selector switch, cause I had mentioned I thought it was lame that there were two 8 ohm speaker jacks and one 16 ohm jack and no 4 ohm jack. I can tell you the amp sounds better than my 1990 .50 Cal+, the lead channel is a little livelier, the clean channel is cleaner, and though not as loud as my Kendrick modded amp, it's now a true 50 watts and is loud enough to keep up with the other guitarist in my band's MKIII. Also, I paid under $350.00 including the new Mecury Transformer, new caps, new LDR's etc. So send your amps to Andy with confidence.
Andy is a top notch tech. I highly recommend him. I bought a 1988 .50 Cal+ head about a year and a half ago. Got a great deal on it on e-bay. When I got it the clean channel was super noisy and the lead channel was just ok. ( I have a 1990 .50 Cal+ head in tip top order to compare to). I started e-mailing Andy, told him I thought it probably need new caps and probably needed a complete overhaul, he agreed. I then told him about my 1990 .50Cal+, how I had Kendrick amps install 100 watt transformers and switch the 6L6's out for 6550's. He seemed intrigued... I told him I'd like to do the same to my new head except I wanted "True" 50 watt transformers cause the wimpy trannys on the .50Cal do not put out 50 watts. Andy said let me think about this and talk to some people and I'll get back with you. So a day later he calls me and tells me he been taking to the owner of Mercury Magnetics and has just what I need. And to my surprise Andy said I only needed to replace the output transformer to achieve what I wanted. I was skeptical since I had shelled out $650.00 in 1998 to Kendrick amps... He asked me to trust him, so I shipped my amp to him. He e-mailed me during the process, and called me 3-4 days after he got my amp to tell me it was done and sounded GREAT! First of all, I was like finished? What? From the time I shipped my amp to Andy I had it back within two weeks. He also added a 4,8,16 ohm selector switch, cause I had mentioned I thought it was lame that there were two 8 ohm speaker jacks and one 16 ohm jack and no 4 ohm jack. I can tell you the amp sounds better than my 1990 .50 Cal+, the lead channel is a little livelier, the clean channel is cleaner, and though not as loud as my Kendrick modded amp, it's now a true 50 watts and is loud enough to keep up with the other guitarist in my band's MKIII. Also, I paid under $350.00 including the new Mecury Transformer, new caps, new LDR's etc. So send your amps to Andy with confidence.
Ah shucks! 
