Re: EPI VJ finally finished..

You should have kept the two things of any value(cabinet,chassis) and thrown
everything else away. Use those two parts for building an amp.

"Twang" <coleman_patrick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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... for now!

left to right on the control panel

500K pot for pre amp tube gain

1M pot for input gain.. *lets' me back off a bit for hot pickups..*

input jack.

500K CTS pot with new cap for the volume to the power tube.

upper switch, bright, currently waiting for a cap.

lower switch another gain boost. *S*

standby switch.

on/off switch.

I've just run it through the homemade cab so far.. very bright
already.
I probably wont need that bright switch very often.

earlier breakup, but I think I really have as much if not more clean
headroom, it's just lower on the dial.

Insane overdrive/distortion.. I admit that creamy sort of overdrive is
not really there. this is a raucous power tube, after all. but it's
very nice on single coils, if you like that sound.

a little bit of switching noise.. I think I should re rough out the
paint behind those pots when I do the bright switch.

had huge hassles with my eyes.. thought I'd fried this a couple of
times.. well. three! but it was the damn solder joints, a tiny wire
shorting out, and loose wires everytime.
I just can't see very well anymore. I'm going to get a smaller easier
to use light.. like on a rack but for freehand peeping, and keep my
magnifying glasses out, too.

I used two cream skirted strat type knobs .. and the black original
vol knob.
looks pretty good with the back panel on the front.

still got the sovtek and chinese pre amp tube in it.

The VJ cab sounds more muted than the eminence unlabelled in the
homemade cab.
at loud volume that might be a good thing, and a reputeable source
tells me to just keep playing it. they open up nicely after hours of
play.

I say I'm finished but I still have room for tone controls and then
there's the highly touted
OT replacement.

I'm going to build another using my own board instead of that piece of
troublesome green this thing came with.

VJ3 heads have new OT, and a few changes that are right out of the mod
freaks book of funsys.
So I bet it's pretty damn nice out of the box. That 1M input resistor
is muy importante! and the V3 has it. and of course the new OT is
double plus good, brother.

So if Jim is reading. tell me about your tone controls sometime, I
want to start thinking about them asap!

Boys and Girls, I am completely new to this. I can't repeat the
warnings enough. It's not just that you may fry the head, you may fry
you. So get it together before you do anything at all.

Soldering to the pcb board is a huge hassle.. everything is very
close, and somethings are just insanely close.
I can't tell you how many times I had to check and check and re do
connections. They must be near perfect!

But I can say the changes are really sweet.. this amp jumps man.

And I haven't got my B+ voltage down yet, but I will. I expect that to
be a very nice help to the drive/distortion smoothness.

Low volume this thing has plenty of warm full tube sound. plenty
bright. Very nice for practicing and useable tones for recording, no
doubt about it.

I have room enough for another gain switch if I want, too.
finished. bwahahaha. never!

well eventually. Right now I'm going to play it a couple of weeks and
get my head straightened back out for the next steps.
I am soooo glad I bought this and really happy with the sound over the
stock head.

TWANG



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