Here is an example of one of the more interesting effects we have repaired recently — the Shin-ei Resly machine. As you might have guessed this was designed to recreate the sound of the Leslie rotating speaker cabinet, and anyone who’s had to move a Leslie will understand the motivation to find a good pedal…….
Whilst attending the Dallas Guitar show I also took the opportunity to hang out in Austin Tx, although sadly my schedule meant I could only go there for a couple of days. In case you didn’t know, Austin is widely regarded as the live music capital of the US, and has more live music venues…
As promised here are some pictures from my trip to the Dallas Guitar Show 2010. A nice 1959 ‘burst, one of several at the show. Unfortunately I didn’t have $250,000 on me….. Early 1964 Gibson Firebird I. Very cool and quite rare. Really cool 1951 Fender Nocaster (have a look at the decal). This guitar…
I have now returned from the Dallas Guitar show 2010. Miraculously neither my flight to, nor from Dallas was delayed by the Icelandic volcano. I will post a further report of my trip including some pictures of cool guitars at the show.
I’m taking a week’s holiday in the US, during which I will be attending the Dallas guitar show 2010. As a result of this we won’t be doing any repair work until I return on the 21st April. I will have a digital camera with me (sadly slide film is getting harder to find) and…
This a photo of the filter caps from a Blackface Fender Twin Reverb that was recently brought in for repair. Note the early ’64 date code on the reverb transformer. The main filter caps have been replaced with Sprague Atoms. Can anyone see the error the previous repairer had made?
Although most of our work is repairs, we also do mods on amps. Here are a couple of recent examples of our mod work. The Fender Blues Junior is a very popular model in the Fender valve amp range. However, like many amps that use EL84, they do run the output valves v-v-v-very hot. In…
We have now recorded some sound samples of the Tayden Retro 55 and Tayden Ace 25 guitar speaker, which should be posted on our Tayden Speaker page next week. These were again recorded by Dave Page of Headspace, so you won’t have to suffer any of my guitar playing! Talking of suffering, Andy at Angel…
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…