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Glad to hear about your simple success You're on the right track.:applause Mark

Volume control See post #16 for my mod for a starting point. Jim P takes it to the moon and back in 20 pages if you really want to get into it, but you can make this a great amp with NO added parts and very little work. Mark

Volume control. Hi, The best place for a volume control is between the two tube sections. The wattage is irrelevant as minimal power is dissipated at these low currents. A 10K control is probably too low for a high impedance circuit, I would use at least a 250K control to not load down the...

Or just send it to me- between jobs need $$ Reverb is better outboard as well as the effects. Amps are what they should be be. Amps- and nothing more- nothing less. KISS M:dude

Shure you started the thread, but it ain't dead yet Tarin, P.s Why didn't you let me have a go at yours when you still had it?? Good iron, good chassis, good cabinet, just needs a better speaker and some sand kicked out of it. There are thousands out there- anyone want to sell me theirs?? I...

Stock vs modded Crate V5

Good to see that some of you still play your guitar. A great little way to get fan cooling is to get a 12 volt fan at Radio Shack and use a wall wart about 6-7 volts to make it run slower and inaudibly. I had a Peavey Classic 30 that was heating my lunch while I played and so I put a metal...

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Tube or not tube Hi Schenkadere, Yes I mod boards for whomever just wants a pure tube amp- all I really do is bypass the op-amp and move the "volume control' out of the feedback loop (gain) of the op-amp and put it where it belongs- between the two tube halves so you can force the 1st section...

Crate V5? Hello Mr. Moderators, sirs! Thank you for membership. Lots of good guys with much overlap into other fields, and lots of opinions that make for genetic diversity. I had a 2x8 inch speaker with old musical instrument Radio Shack speakers, and wouldn't you know it- it FRIED one of...

Hi Guys! I finally found this 'proper place' to talk about myself. Right now I am working with Crate 'tube' amps to improve their performance and lower the noisy hiss that the Crate V5 in particular, has. You can see my posts starting at number 16 in the V5 thread. I believe that the less...

Gain with op-amp removed HI Tim, The amp in the stock form wastes 90% of the signal in the sound path. Since I remove the op-am, I simply 'get back' my gain from the 90% losses in the voltage divider. The tone stack is altered by the changes I make the circuitry, which alters impedance...

Speaker fitting problems and solutions. I used a 50 watt, 4 ohm Eminence that had a height of 3 1/2 inches, which is the same for most Fender Custom-made, 10" speakers. The original speaker is 3 3/4", so they both cleared easily. The actual opening depth before you hit the chassis is 4 1/4...

Mods The most irritating thing that I have to deal with when making changes are cold solder joints (looks good but nothing gets through) and solder bridges that I make when I solder close to adjacent traces and the sound goes to lala land. I agree with JP that using only a meter should find...

Mod and mod \ It sounds like a lot of work to me, and I am an electronics technician. One of the main problems with doing a mod is to do them one at a time so you can see where you had success, or worse- catastrophe. If you put the amps (modded and unmodded) side by side, you should hear a big...

In the above schematic that JimP shows, there is only 1/3 of the available voltage going into the next stage. His 220K+220K+ another 220K with volume control in parallel with the last 220K will suck off 2/3 of the signal AT LEAST. The output stage of that section will work with as low as 100K...

Boxes and more boxes From the numbers it looks that a guitar amp should have a 10 to 12 inch speaker for bass and a 6 inch speaker for treble but from the Weber Q and A it looks that they have tried to work around this in there speaker design. As many know, a 4 inch speaker can sound good and...

V5 and onward Hi Guys, I have just read all the comments on this thread, and it looks like many of you are finding that this amplifier is a sleeper and can sound good if a few things can be changed. I thought I would drop a line here and tell you my reaction to all the stuff that is...

Myspace message failure Thanks C. Your last line is cryptic- what do you mean concerning Myspace? That they can't speak succinctly? It is a skill after all. I do become quite long winded (see first post above), but last night you (and the rest of us) got lucky. I was passing out from lack of...

Saying howdy to da gang Hi Super, Yes I am new to the Fret. I have been a member of other sites, most notably 18 watt and now SEwatt. I have been selling on eBay for about 5 years now and I am a deaf musician. You can read my bio on eBay (deafelectromark) and if you tell me where to post a...