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What you are doing is adding a 'bright' cap across the volume control. It'll make it ...... well, bright and 'fizzy' at less than '10' on the volume control. Personally, I remove bright caps every chance I get, but to each his own. One tab of the control will be grounded, so you want to solder...

You can trust John Carruthers to show you how. Cleaning Your Electronics - YouTube

I think the idea is to tune to your liking (using those things called 'ears'), and use the Drum Dial to fine tune everything so all lugs are equal. Whether all lugs being exactly the same is beneficial is up to you. But the Drum Dial suggestions are pretty much close to your readings. If...

Keep in mind that I am a bit of a wingnut, and not afraid to try anything. Before I made my sub-kick, what I did was this; I had a signal generator set to 40-50Hz (whatever I think felt right later was used next time, but the exact frequency changed). Next, the kick drum mic was sent to a...

It is LE, but only because they seem to give it away with everything. I'm sure if you buy socks at Walmart, Cubase LE is thrown in for free. But I digress. I have so many copies laying around, that they sometimes sit uninstalled for a year before I toss out the CD. But once in a great while I...

Some of it does sound exceptionally good. I guess it's the carpenter and not the tools. I doubt the drums are live, or are they? It has to be an app. I'm not betting, 'cause I've already eaten enough crow for one day. But with iRig you can get great guitar sounds, so it's all up to the drum...

I take it back. Just for fun, a quick search turns up https://soundcloud.com/groups/garageband-for-ipad. A lot of it sounds cheesy, but some of this stuff sounds quite usable and good! :eek:

IK Multimedia | iRig - Guitar interface adapter for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Now, I don't do this personally. However, my son owns an iPad, and he can't play any instrument well enough to play a song lasting longer than 15 seconds. Yet with Garage Band he uses no real instruments, and...

.......good or bad? :confused:

Normally, that happens to the cheap amplifiers that the board gets 'wave soldered' quickly at the factory. But I guess it can happen to the big names as well. Unless the Bassman 400 is made in China. :eek:

I used an old tom, and drilled out the old vent hole and popped in a 1/4" jack, to go to a DI box with the two wires. Simple, and it works great. The whole project was an unused 8" tom, an 8" woofer, and a Pearl mesh head protects everything. Use the tom mount to go to a mic stand, or make...

The Fulldrive 2 is a Tube Screamer, regardless of what anyone says. Symmetrical clipping in the feedback loop, like a TS9, but slightly 'darker' tone control. If you like Tube Sceamers, you'll like the Fulldrive 2. The OCD is really different in that it uses MOSFETs configured like diodes for...

Keep in mind with anything I say you should ask yourself 'What the Hell does he know?' Also, I have no idea how to resize any drawing I uploaded, so I apologize for the excessive size. :o Now, any 'clean' boost, or straight preamp is usually just a simple op-amp, like so; .......clean, and...

The transistor likely blew because the wrong power supply was plugged into the pedal. Now, you're lucky it isn't surface mount. If it's a simple TO-92 transistor, you can try a few generic replacements, just for sh*ts and giggles. If you have the proper supply, plug it in, and measure the three...

Keep in mind that I am known to do blasphemous and crazy sh*t all the time, since I have no reverence for history. My attitude is that amp would be useless to me as I sit and wait for 7868 tubes to fall in my lap. So, I would spend literally a couple of dollars, and an hour worth of time, and...

Weird. Class A circuit (or trying to be) and mismatched tubes caused a hum that happens as the amp warms up? :confused: Cheap. There wasn't likely a through testing of other caps for that price, and if the main filter went after 50 years, you'd imagine other capacitors may be passed their...

It depends on the tech, and how they deal with the amp. I know some who will go through all the capacitors, including the coupling caps, and check for leakage. Then they may check resistors for value and drift. Then they may test all the tubes. If you just want a quick slash-and-dash job of...

If you don't have the hands for it, or the patience and experience, it may be less stress just to pay someone to do it. If memory serves me correctly, the chassis is a wee bit cramped, and the main filter is an FP 'can' that is tricky to solder to the chassis. It can be done, if you have the...

Tremolo is just one of those circuits no one knows what they have, but they know if they like it. You can do 'tremolo' a number of ways, but it all starts with a LF oscillator. The overall gain goes from 'zero' to 'normal' at the rate of the oscillator. That's the Fender way. The overall gain...

Dave Hunter has an excellent book out, and it includes a CD demonstrating so many pedals. Then, YouTube has any 'demo' you can think of. The only two guys really worth checking out are gearmandude and ProGuitarShop (Andy rocks!). Other pedal clips are OK, but for some reason Andy just knows the...