EH Big Muff effects pedal repair at JPF Amp’s London workshop in Denmark St.
The Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer is, rightly, regarded as a classic pedal. Ibanez have now reissued the TS-808. This is fortunate as an original TS-808s will set you back several hundred pounds. Unfortunately, the switches on the reissue (and indeed the originals), are not that robust. This pedal came in with a broken switch. In […]
Here’s an Ibanez TS9DX Turbo Tube Screamer we’ve just repaired. The pedal came in with a common fault: the switching was intermittent. This is usually due to the foot switch wearing out, however the foot switch in this pedal was fine. After some prodding with a high tech implement (a chopstick!) I found […]
Here are a couple of Electro Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe delay pedals we’ve had in for repair. The pedal in the right was distorting badly with an ES-335 when set to unity gain; a problem with the Memory Man is that they don’t like hot guitar signals. This can be reduced somewhat by […]
Here’s a piece of history. This is the actual Barnes and Mullins Fuzz used by Edwyn Collins to record his classic track Girl Like You. The pedal was in the work shop for repair; nothing seriously wrong with, a broken solder joint on the PCB.
Here are 3 Lovetone pedals that we have recently repaired. These are rare and valuable pedals. The Dopplerganger is a phase/ vibrato pedal with 2 low frequency oscillators and is a particular favourite of mine. The Meatball is an envelope filter, and the Ring Stinger is a ring modulator (which I would have […]
Here are 3 Boss pedals I’ve had in for repair at our workshop; a DM-2 analogue delay, an OS-2 overdrive /distortion pedal, and a DD-3 digital delay. Boss pedals are, in my experience, very reliable. None of these pedals had major faults. The DM-2 (which for the uber pedal geeks was the earlier […]
As well as repairing guitar amplifiers, we also repair and modify effects pedals. The Boss TR-2 is a good sounding tremolo pedal, but suffers from a loss of volume when the effect is engaged. This is easily cured by changing R9 on the PCB from 10k to a lower value. I find 6k8 works well. […]
I’ve posted previously that a friend of mine, Nathan, is building and repairing guitars in Brighton. Nathan’s now got his web-site, Brighton Guitar Workshop, up and running so you can check out his work.
If you’ve been following our blog, you may have noticed that I have advertized that a good friend of mine, and excellent guitar repairer and builder, Nathan, has got his workshop up and running in Brighton. Nathan has been getting requests from his customers for amplifier repairs, so has asked me if I would be […]
