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Right around the time this place disappeared, my Marshall 100-watt died.
I was just sitting watching TV, while noodling on the guitar. Amp was set at about 1/2. Suddenly no sound. WTF?
No smell of anything burning. Just stopped.
Took me a few months before I could afford to have it fixed, as I wanted it gone over with a fine-tooth comb.
Took it to Nashville Amp Repair.
Spent 500 bucks on it. I think a tube had failed or some such nonsense.
Anyway, I told them I wanted it to sound like God.
When they said they were done, I went there, and they handed me an axe and asked me to play. It sounded sweet, but it did not have enough grind.
So they took the chassis out, and changed a resistor right then and there. Ooooh.....I was drooling. I think they said it was actually capable of putting out 124 watts RMS, though that figure does not mean a lot.
Got this sumbitch home and cranked it up.
YES! GOD IS IN MY LIVING ROOM ON TOP OF MY MARSHALL 4 X 12 Cab!!!!!
And when I throw an original TS-9 Tube Screamer on it, it gets that perfect grindy radioactive meltdown sound like Accept got on all their albums.
I have been doing some recording with it, and I just love it.
I cannot recommend Nashville Amp Repair highly enough.
Oh, and here is the original classified ad I saw back in 1995 for it.
A guy I knew made his living just buying and selling anything and everything. He had only had one call on it when I called him up. I told him I was going to buy it sight unseen. It was in sad shape. Some bastard who owned it previously had gotten drunk one night and decided to spray paint it red. It only had one pre-amp tube in it, and of course it did not work.
So I simply painted all the tolex with semi-gloss black paint, and painted all the piping and the logo white.
I spent $220 on it for a set of Groove Tubes, and necessary repairs.
Someone had drilled a couple of holes in the back of the chassis and had an FX loop put in. I had a line out with a volume pot put in.
One of these days I will put on new tolex, piping, etc., but for now, it is not leaving my house, and my main interest is in the fact that it sounds like the ultimate Marshall tone I always heard in my head, but never was able to get until now. Oh yeah, and that is the mid-70s Marshall cab I posted about a couple of years ago that I got for $350. So all told I have a little under $1400 in this rig over the past 14 years.
One of these days I will post an mp3 of it.
I was just sitting watching TV, while noodling on the guitar. Amp was set at about 1/2. Suddenly no sound. WTF?
No smell of anything burning. Just stopped.
Took me a few months before I could afford to have it fixed, as I wanted it gone over with a fine-tooth comb.
Took it to Nashville Amp Repair.
Spent 500 bucks on it. I think a tube had failed or some such nonsense.
Anyway, I told them I wanted it to sound like God.
When they said they were done, I went there, and they handed me an axe and asked me to play. It sounded sweet, but it did not have enough grind.
So they took the chassis out, and changed a resistor right then and there. Ooooh.....I was drooling. I think they said it was actually capable of putting out 124 watts RMS, though that figure does not mean a lot.
Got this sumbitch home and cranked it up.
YES! GOD IS IN MY LIVING ROOM ON TOP OF MY MARSHALL 4 X 12 Cab!!!!!
And when I throw an original TS-9 Tube Screamer on it, it gets that perfect grindy radioactive meltdown sound like Accept got on all their albums.
I have been doing some recording with it, and I just love it.
I cannot recommend Nashville Amp Repair highly enough.
Oh, and here is the original classified ad I saw back in 1995 for it.
A guy I knew made his living just buying and selling anything and everything. He had only had one call on it when I called him up. I told him I was going to buy it sight unseen. It was in sad shape. Some bastard who owned it previously had gotten drunk one night and decided to spray paint it red. It only had one pre-amp tube in it, and of course it did not work.
So I simply painted all the tolex with semi-gloss black paint, and painted all the piping and the logo white.
I spent $220 on it for a set of Groove Tubes, and necessary repairs.
Someone had drilled a couple of holes in the back of the chassis and had an FX loop put in. I had a line out with a volume pot put in.
One of these days I will put on new tolex, piping, etc., but for now, it is not leaving my house, and my main interest is in the fact that it sounds like the ultimate Marshall tone I always heard in my head, but never was able to get until now. Oh yeah, and that is the mid-70s Marshall cab I posted about a couple of years ago that I got for $350. So all told I have a little under $1400 in this rig over the past 14 years.
One of these days I will post an mp3 of it.
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