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Boy, I wish I had something like that, but luckily this is a pretty simple little amp with not many parts. I've already done this on a 60s harmony H304 that worked out very nicely. Thanks for the info about what caps should go where theoretically, and now that I can see the inside of the cap...

Hi I'm working on this small 1950s Harmony guitar amp replacing all the capacitors and resistors to give it a fresh start. I haven't found a schematic for this amp so I'm looking at each component and writing down the values as well as testing the resistors as I go. I decided to cut open the...

I guess I will end my own thread here. These are not DeArmonds, they were manufactured by Kay themselves. Apparently they were a new design to compete with the 60s jangly British sound. Sounded pretty cool in the bridge position from what I could tell under the noise. These particular ones...

These came from a 60s Kay Vanguard Thin Lite I believe it is called. I am pretty sure they are Dearmonds based on their design and the era they come from. The neck pick up is dead reading 0.00 Kohms on the multimeter. The bridge works and reads 5.67 kohms, but is too noisy to use. The back...

Good point on the XLR plug. I have both kinds of cables so it doesn't matter to me that much for this application. Your wiring scheme seems to agree with a simple diagram I found on the net. Also, I hadn't thought about the instrument plug but I might try that as well. Thanks for the input. :)

I have an old Dukane PA that only has screw terminals for the microphone input. There are 3 screw terminals, 1 for low-z, 1 for hi-z and a common terminal in between. Can I hook up a 1/4 mono phone jack to these terminals for plugging in a microphone? Thanks

After some of your suggestions, I decided to do another closer comparison, though no more scientifc, of the sm58 vs R1 MKII Ribbon. I used the behringer 1002fx mixer with it's built in xenyx preamps and did not use the FEThead. I started with the sm58 and set the gain to get the highest...

I have run comparisons with a Shure sm58 and an audio technica dynamic vocal mic which require roughly the same gain to get up to recording level. Since the gain is almost all the way up for all three mics I am definitely hearing the preamp's noise but the Golden Ages ribbon is at least twice...

Golden Ages Project R1 MKII Passive Ribbon Mic I bought one of these mics awhile back because I wanted to have a Ribbon mic to play around with. It has decent reviews and all that and it was reasonably priced so I went for it. I like it for vocals alright but the low-level noise is...