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Re: Someone hacked up my Vox...need some advice.

10/19/2004 8:01 PM
SpeedRacer	Re: Someone hacked up my Vox...need some advice. just want to second Bruce and Wild Bill's vote.. make sure you don't have a wiring issue #1 #2 If you are certain that you are not "hearing things" i would put the old coupling caps back in and see where that gets you. I would not waste time on the resistors. Those values are probably where they always were and you're not going to hear a 5 or 10% difference. A lot gets made of drifting values, but a lot of the time they simply are not that audble. Pop an R-substitution box into a working amp sometime and try out some different values. It's not the kind of 'night and day' thing that some folks make it out to be. Don't make yourself crazy over it. Also keep in mind also that simply swapping out the tubes could have completely changed the sound of the amp and the components he put in may sound just as good as the ones that came out. There are a lot of variables here. Again, I would check out the tone stack first, play with tubes second and then replace the tone caps (tone stack caps, bright cap and then coupling caps) in that order to see where it got me. JM2C

10/19/2004 8:01 PM

SpeedRacer

Re: Someone hacked up my Vox...need some advice.

just want to second Bruce and Wild Bill's vote.. make sure you don't have a wiring issue #1
#2 If you are certain that you are not "hearing things" i would put the old coupling caps back in and see where that gets you.
I would not waste time on the resistors. Those values are probably where they always were and you're not going to hear a 5 or 10% difference. A lot gets made of drifting values, but a lot of the time they simply are not that audble. Pop an R-substitution box into a working amp sometime and try out some different values. It's not the kind of 'night and day' thing that some folks make it out to be. Don't make yourself crazy over it.
Also keep in mind also that simply swapping out the tubes could have completely changed the sound of the amp and the components he put in may sound just as good as the ones that came out. There are a lot of variables here.
Again, I would check out the tone stack first, play with tubes second and then replace the tone caps (tone stack caps, bright cap and then coupling caps) in that order to see where it got me.
JM2C