Recent content by dannyart

Hi again everyone I aquired a Valve Special yesterday from my mate for a few quid, thought it'd be worth having a mess around with, just for the craic like! Anyway It sounds pretty good cranked up but I wanted to get rid of the DSP effects (which I dont think sound too bad, but do colour the...

Thanks for that Tung. Ive found a supplier over here that sells an almost identical product to the one you mentioned so I'll use that. I saw a layout for a 5watt amp (similar to VJr) and an 18watter that used the screened cable for all the positive connections to the pots too... is this...

I'm thinking of doing a point to point rebuild of my Valve Jr. I was looking at all the home brew amp builds and it seems that screened cable is the norm for all + connections from the jacks and pots. But what kind of screened cable do I use? Is it ordinary 12volt audio screened cable like you...

I found the fault!... It was a mod that I'd forgot to mention before - replacing R5. I got this mod from the S2 site which states: "You can increase power tube overdrive by increasing this resistor up to 1M" ...which is what I'm after. I replaced it with a 470K just to try it & it didnt do...

Hi guys. I've tried 3 different sets of tubes in it (sovteks, and jjs) and it still does it, so it cant be that. It even does it without a lead plugged in. Basically it didnt do it at all before I did the mods, here are the ones I've done: Nylon input jack Higher quality tone caps - C1 & C2...

Help needed!!... Hi again chaps. Been away on a shoot for a few days, got back the other day and had a chance to have a jam with some friends so I thought I'd take the VJ and really crank it to see how it sounds since I've done all the mods. I havent had a chance to get the volume past 12oclock...

Cheers Tung, that makes more sense now. I had a quick look at mosfets on Wiki too. I cant find the NTE one here in the UK but I found IXFH10N90-ND, which appears to have similar spec, but no one has that in stock either! Looks like I'll be trying something else. Thanks for the advice though...

Thanks for that Tung, the vvr sounds good! Do you know if I can use any mosfet for this or does it have to be NTE2377? Not too clued up on these, or how they work, to be honest :confused:

Here are some shots of two of my guitars... '73 LP Custom & nearly new AmVint Strat... and also, two that I sold recently and now massivly regret!, a '59 Historic LP (the ones before the VOSs) and an original condition 1963 Verithin... why did I sell them?!! needed the cash probably. I'll take...

All ok with the VJ so far so looks like its all fixed and correct! Thanks for the advice about caps DVM. One other mod I was planning to do was install a master volume or extra preamp valve so as to coax some serious overdrive out of the VJ at lower volumes. I have a few questions on this, if...

Thanks for the warm welcomes guys! I've got 4 axes at the moment DVM... A white Fender American Vintage 63 strat, about 3yrs old now, lovely guitar... A sonic blue Fender relic 60 strat with maple neck, which is beautiful but not as nice to play as the other one, considering selling it... a 1991...

Greetings! I'm new here so a big hello to you all. I am an artist and photographer by profession, based here in Birmingham, UK. One of my main obsessions since the age of about 10 has been guitar. I've been playing seriously since I was about 13 (I'm now 35 and still not much better!). I also...

Thanks for all the advice guys, really helpful! Yeah I'd planned to put a bit of info about myself on the forum, I'll do that today sometime... I did the checks you said and it turns out one of the heater spade joints was cracked where it meets the board - probably due to me removing and...

Hi everyone. I have one of the first Valve Jr combos, which I bought years ago, and have just recently decided to do the mods to it to get rid of that noise and get some more gain!... Had great fun with it, I have done the resistor mods to increace impedence and gain, the input jack, a tone...