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Anyone else try these guitars? For 300 bucks I thought I would. Don't know that I'll be a repeat customer though. It sounds pretty good but...I have one low fret and the tuners don't cut it and they put these tiny washers on the output jack barely bigger round than the nut. One mistake with...

Carvin guitars I have two Carvins. I think you get what you pay for but be carefull about the pickups. The first one I bought several years ago was a TL60 with two humbuckers and two single to dual coils switches and a three way. I had MV series pickups I think and they had to go for SD JB...

Welcome Randy Glad to have you here. I'm a newbie myself. So when did the 60s end and the 70s began? I can't remember.....:beer:

I'm back ...and fired up. This is a great site. Nice people with good attitudes- so far anyway. I'm glad I found it. The meds have all been taken and the V5 has been put in its place. Sounds pretty good. Has some sizzle when tailing off an A. Think it might be a tube. I was wondering...

Thanks for the welcome Nice to hear from you guys and gals(?). I'll be away for a couple weeks- going to do a little surgery and recovery. Probably needed after fighting that Crate V5 for...how long is it now? I can spend my recovery time beating it into submission until it sounds like it...

OLDGUY says us new members using the V5 modification thread should introduce ourselves so here goes. I'm new at this web stuff but been playing since I was 10 about 41 years now. I've got about 15 more guitars than I need but there are always others I want. It would be nice to have one of...

Thanks Jim P Thanks Jim, I'm still messing around and messing things up. I get it going good then I try to improve it and then back to the drawing- uh I mean circuit board. I'll try to keep this short as possible as I read it is a guitar player (which I am) thread and not a PCB modification...

schenkadere- probably not worth all the trouble I've put into it but there is something to the challenge of making a crappy $75 amp into a single ended all tube amp- if it sounds good! I allready had a couple extra speakers. Have you seen the price of a vintage Champ lately?

Jim P screen grid R18 470 ohms Jim You are telling me I should be using the stock 470 ohm R18 screen grid resistor? I guess I wasn't clear on that. I had changed to a 1K and that seemed to work fine. I may have to use that value if I can't re-use or find a new 470 ohm 3+watt locally. Thanks, Tom

Jim P- V5 Tube Amp but still not satisfied Jim P- I'm still around trying to make something out of this cheap amp. I put a 4.7K on the screen grid and soldered it to R25 on the R26 side. I also put 280 ohm cathode bias resistor on EL84. My plate is still about 335v but the screen grid is...

Question for Jim P Yes the question about R16 going to 10K (or 5K) was meant for you. I think you were the only one who mentioned it. I realized later you meant R18 after re-reading the whole thread and checking the schematic. I picked up a 4.7K today to try. I tried to hookup at R25 but...

Thanks for the info Goonrick but I really don't want to mess with the filter caps and I have no replacements for them (nor can you get them in this town) so I think I'll try a 4.7K grid screen resistor for the EL84 and see how what it does. Hope I don't mess something else up!

So you can decrease the voltages on the EL84 by increasing the cathode bias resistor? I'm still over 330 volts on the plate and screen grid but the amp works fine. I see the cathode bias resistor for the EL84 is R17, 330 ohm, 5 watt. What would you increase it to to get the voltages below...

Rock Mumbles You got me thinking. R7 is the grid load resistor for the next triode. I wired in at R7 going to ground so it's still in the circuit. Classic designs all use the vol pot for the grid load to the second stage so it looks like I'm doubling up. What do you think? I think R7 should...

Rock Mumbles The answer to your first question is basically yes. I left in R10 (now 47K) and R11 (1 meg) and went straight into pin 7 V1B. R1 and R2 were bypassed/removed. From there out of pin 6 to Marshall 18 watt basic vol/tone circuit. Not sure if I came back in at R7 for grid load to V1A...

Jim P Thanks for the good suggestions. I will give them a try. Unfortunately, both the vol. and tone pots have failed mechanically- be careful with them. I can't get in touch with Loud Tech. Anyone know where else I can get them? So the amp is down until I get some new pots. I don't think...

Ok I now have a tube amp with a new/better speaker. This thing sounds great distorted but I can't get any clean headroom out of it. Can anyone help me? The op-amp circuit is gone. The tone circuit is gone replaced with a Marshall 18 watt tone circuit. The input resistor was changed from...