Monsta Tone!

[wolfgang6505]

Hey man that's cool, will you pull the chasis when your DC5 arrives and take a few pics of her, I want to look at a stock one so I can compare it with mine I have the cathode bias mod.

 

[Wally]

Wolf, did you figure out your problems on the DC5? Enquiring minds and all that....

 

[Monsta-Tone]

I would, but I had it shipped to my house on the Mainland.

Sorry man.

I can send you a picture of my DC-3's guts, they should be close to the same.

I was actually thinking of modding my DC-3 to be Simul-Class. The outer pair of tubes is Cathode Bias and the inner pair are Fixed Bias.



Cathode Bias adds a lot of richness and overdrives much easier.



Let me know if you want them and PM me with an email address. It may take a couple of days, but I will do it.



I am serious about taking it off your hands if you decide you hate it. I want you to fix it and enjoy it, but I'll be the vulture if you decide to sell. :mrgreen:

 

[Monsta-Tone]

I have a schematic if you want it.

 

[wolfgang6505]

Wally, I have consulted a few more techs about it and haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet, however I'm starting to wonder if it's the cathode bias mod, when I bought the amp, I can't remember if it did the cutting out on the pull boost or not because the amp had more gain then. When the mod was done it brought the gain down a bit (in my opinion) but warmed the sound up alot. So I 'm not sure if I ever had the ryth pull boost activated at the same time as having the gain on 10.

Monsta-Tone, I'd love to see the pics of your amp and if you have a schematic that would be great also. Simul-Class is a cool thing and I don't think you'ld be making a mistake by doing that. I 've never played a DC-3 but the only thing different isit has EL84's? and is 30 watts instead of 50 right? I could be wrong so correct me if so...

Monsta-Tone you'll be the firstto know if I decide to sell :mrgreen: I'm going to PM.

I'm thinking maybe about reversing the mod and fitting the amp with all Mesa tubes again, maybe it will change what's happeing on the ryth channel.

 

[Monsta-Tone]

PM me with an email address. I can send the DC-5 & DC-3 schems.

I will take pics either tonight or this weekend. I have 2 little boys that like to get into everything, so I have to be sly about things. I'll be taking pics of some stuff for Ebay tonight though, so I might get the chance.