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28th March 2008
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| 500 series nutjob  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: 500 series Guru SKANK! ; )
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31st March 2008
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Portland, OR
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| Just wanted to say that a thread like this is EXACTLY what I've been looking for these past couple hours. Figures that I'd find it in the most likely place....Good on you for putting it up, Tim :D And thanks to everyone posting the goods! Last edited by drosophila; 31st March 2008 at 11:36 PM.. Reason: adding |
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2nd April 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alabama
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| This can't be good.  I saw the pic and had to share. |
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2nd April 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Spring Hill, TN, USA
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2nd April 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Spring Hill, TN, USA
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| This just came in yesterday. Thought I'd share my peek inside. LaChapell 583s Tube Preamp for 500 series racks, complete with Telefunken tube.   Opening in the top of the unit for swapping tubes (seen below).  NOTE: I don't understand why these images aren't showing up in the body of this post. I put HTML image tags around them. Oh well. If a moderator could edit this and make them show up, I'd appreciate it.
__________________ Lynn Fuston 3D Audio Inc. Host of 3dB, Producer of the 3D Vocal Mic, Preamp, ADC, Ribbon Mic Comparison CDs available at 3D Webstore. |
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2nd April 2008
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__________________ Purveyor of fine sounds since 1961. My very incomplete IMDB list: My very incomplete IMDB list I'm all ears. | |
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3rd April 2008
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| 500 series nutjob Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: 500 series Guru SKANK! ; )
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3rd April 2008
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 I just saved copies of your images to my computer, then in this reply I clicked the Manage Attachments button in the Additional Options section and uploaded them. | |
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3rd April 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Spring Hill, TN, USA
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If the image resides on a server already though, you can just add image tags to its URL and it should show up in the post. Like this: LaChapell 583s-On the inside - 3dB For some reason, this thread won't allow a post with image tags, at least not from me. | |
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3rd April 2008
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| 500 series nutjob Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: 500 series Guru SKANK! ; )
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| i have not been able to get photo to show except for the way they are with ImJohn: (~ Jules changed it some time back and now all the photos i Post are small and you have to click them to see them. personally i think it suck! i hate have to to click on it to see it.
__________________ www.pan60.com BLAST PAD Inventor just one invention among others.  A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE 500 FORMAT, MAFIA Never EVER let the quality of your tools dictate what you do and don't get done, that's irresponsible and disrespectful to yourself as well as the muse. Gregory Scott - ubk it is easy to sound as though one was endowed with great intelligence, whilst speaking amongst a crowd of total morons  |
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6th April 2008
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| 500 series nutjob Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: 500 series Guru SKANK! ; )
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7th April 2008
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| I don't know if you are a great collector, or a pack rat. I love those old racks and heavy steel chasis. -tINY |
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9th April 2008
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| Gearslutz.com admin  | OK I tweaked the IMG code option, (I dunno why it was on the off position..  )Try now Lynn! Pan 60, with a big forum you get a lot of attachments and a long term solution needed to be put in place. Thats why you have the thumbnails, at least it shrinks the photos for you..
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9th April 2008
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9th April 2008
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Thanks. but i had to post a new, edited photo of Ken Kesey's bus on every post I made April fool's day - instead of embedding an image of the same one... Here is some vintage gear (look on his head)  -tINY | |
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9th April 2008
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17th April 2008
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21st April 2008
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22nd April 2008
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sydney
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11th May 2008
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New Jersey
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11th May 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Walnut Creek, CA
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Are 9-pin sockets current Chinese production? Can you share design of PCBs for tube sockets?
__________________ Most wires and parts do in fact sound exactly the same. --Ethan But sounds of 1 meter and 1 kilometer of the same wire are totally different --Wavebourn Can I add that many bands sound better when they are 1Km away compared to 1 Metre! --Matt Syson  | |
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11th May 2008
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New Jersey
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I would if I could but someone else made it. Small quantity runs so I guess this would qualify as a boutique compressor. | |
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30th June 2008
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| 500 series nutjob Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: 500 series Guru SKANK! ; )
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7th July 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Tennesse Valley, AL
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| Fender Bassman: the classic, and the reissue I recently did a head transfer/cabinet swap. Here's a view of original-versus-reissue shots of the Fender Bassman. The only "new" components in the classic 54-ish Bassman are two electrolytics. You can see the reissues' PCB and such. Both the owner and I think the original Bassman sounds better than the reissue. I put the original head unit into the reissues cabinet, because the old cab is literally falling apart, and had some major resonance/vibration problems. Even with the new cab and reissue Jensens, the old head still sounds better.
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7th July 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: May 2005 Location: Tennesse Valley, AL
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7th July 2008
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Birmingham, AL USA
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7th July 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: May 2005 Location: Tennesse Valley, AL
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| I'll pass that on, would it require a great deal of modification? You know the owner, btw. |
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9th July 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Birmingham, AL USA
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| No mods at all, the only problem for the guy with no or minimum tools maybe the problem of the new cable requiring a grommet and strain relief. I never reuse the old plastic grommet Performed this upgrade this past weekend on an old Ampeg head. The ground wire connects to the chassis, the black/hot connects to the switch/fuse leg, white/neutral connects to the power transformer. If it contains the ground switch like the Ampeg did you disconnect it completely.. Leave the switch in the hole or cover it, your choice. |
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9th July 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: May 2005 Location: Tennesse Valley, AL
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| Thanks Mike. The ground switch is there, and the plug is 2 prong. The consequence to switching to 3 prong is the elimination of the ground lift switch then? What would opening the neutral wire do in the 3 prong scheme? Put the 120 across that open? If the neutral wire is already connected to the chassis, would I need to find it and disconnect it also to implement the 3 prong scheme? I ask because we've been fond of using the ground switch to eliminate/reduce hum with guitars. I'm sure my ignorance is showing on this one, but I'm kinda playing on-site studio tech. I've read that in three prong modern systems, the neutral wire is connected to earth back at the main breaker terminal, so I guess that a neutral short to chassis, the neutral being shorted to earth ground at the main breaker, would create a ground loop between the neutral/chassis and ground, and possibly in the operator touching the chassis and standing on earth ground. |
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9th July 2008
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Birmingham, AL USA
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| It is not a ground lift in the real use of the word. Lifting the AC ground on a tube amp is a very bad idea, you lift the audio ground different ways. I would always prefer the AC ground to be connected if possible... But it is NOT allowed by NEC to use the neutral as a ground, yes it is connected at the main panel at one point and ONLY at one point, either at the meter panel or the main disconnect, but not at both and no where else. This creates a parallel neutral current path, a bad idea. NEC 250. |
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