Hope you all had a good break. I certainly did. Having not seen a Rivera-era Fender for several months we had two Deluxe Reverb II amps in for repair within a couple of weeks! Amazingly they both had faults with there speakers, which we replaced. As I’m sure you know, Paul Rivera was employed by…
Just to let you know that we will be shutting for business on Monday 21st December and will be re-opening in the New Year on January 4th. In the New Year we will be adding a Tech Info section, which we hope will present some information not found elsewhere. We will of course continue to…
I will be using our blog to show any cool and interesting valve amps we have in for repair service. This very early, rare Matamp GT-120 was brought in recently. It had expired in the late 70s and hadn’t been turned on since! Opening the chassis revealed the likely problem; the white powdery coating on…
I’ve recently purchased a copy of Merlin Blencowe’s book “Designing Tube Preamps for Guitar and Bass”. This is the best books I’ve read on guitar amp pre-amps, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has visited Merlin’s excellent website. Although the approach is quite academic, even if you aren’t into the maths (sad…
OK, with our new blog facility (!?) we aim to keep the cyberworld up to date with JPF Amplification activities. Once we’ve worked out how to add picture to this we will also bring you details of any interesting amps we have through the shop. Keep it country!