Recent content by Jeff R

Just a heads up. It's super clean and the Recto and Blackface modules have been modded to the specs given at this forum - all the details are in the item description. Link to the auction (and photos) ...

Dunno, I sold the only compressor I had before I got it. But I'm getting ready to build myself a nice compressor, so I may have more info on how they pair up in a couple of weeks.

The Germania is a reproduction of a '60s Dallas Rangemaster. You'll hear people call them "treble boosters" but that name is deceiving - it boosts a little treble plus some other things in there that make your tone more musical. There's a sound file at www.homebrewelectronics.com/products.htm...

I like a heavy but articulate gain too and I guess I'm one of the few who actually use a Recto module without griping about its low end. LOL Disclaimer: I did the .0022 cap mod to shave the module's useless low end, and I still run the bass control at somewhere around 1 o'clock. I also have a...

The bias on my RM50 was waaay out of whack from the factory also.

I don't know if there's been any design/construction change, but my Recto module was modded last weekend and my best friend who did the mod pulled the capacitor from the bottom side of the PC board without disassembling the unit at all. He turned it upside down and used a pencil-tipped...

My best friend and I played around with both recommended cap mods on my Recto module this weekend. I use a RM50B combo. As expected, both mods effectively shave the tubby mush low that comes in from overdialing a older stock Recto module, so one or the other cap recommendations is definitely...

Echoplexing ... I got the $20 one from Radio Shack and it does the job just fine.

My combo only uses a pair, not a quartet, and I'm running 6L6s. I've only used Boogies and Fenders over the past 10+ years so I'm a 6L6 fan by default. 34s to my ear sound better in a live performance environment playing rock but I don't gig anymore, I just play around the house and studio stuff...

+100. My RM50B combo's bias was outta whack straight from the factory, I think because it got a pair of crappy power tubes. They were horribly mismatched, I think because one was getting ready to go out - one had a red-colored "Ruby Tubes" logo and the other had a brown-colored logo, I think...

I was a Boogie junkie for many moons and I've owned and gigged with a Dual Rectifier halfstack, a Tremoverb halfstack and a Rectoverb combo and the Recto module sounds very different than "real" Rectos. The module doesn't sound bad, I love mine (getting ready to do the cap mod to love it more...

I still have the factory tubes in all my modules. Preamp tubes tend to last much longer than power tubes. I would suspect the high-gain modules would consume tubes quicker than clean modules, but I'd still expect to get at least two years out of really pushed preamp tubes. I was a Boogie user...

IIRC all blackface-era "Twins" were actually Twin Reverbs. Twins were high-wattage combos (my SF was like 85 watts or something) running off a quad of 6L6s, with a solid-state rectifier. Deluxes were like 18 or 22 watts and ran off a pair of 6V6s. I'm pretty sure they had tube rectifiers. Get...

Randall's module descriptions say a "Blackface" module is voiced like a Fender Twin, and the DLX voiced like a Deluxe Reverb. I have a Blackface module for my RM50 combo and my main amp before my switch to the MTS series was a '70 SFTR and some stomps. I very familiar with Tremonti's tones...

I'm just curious, especially to hear your opinions on which types of pickups (singles, 'buckers, P-90s/soaps, minibuckers) work best with these amps. I only have two guitars, a custom-order '95 Hamer Centaura/Diablo hybrid (a.k.a. the "Centablo") with two direct-mount, reverse-slant humbuckers...