New Amp???
New Amp???
Well... Last Saturday, at a gig we shared with several bands on a big outdoor stage, a guitar playing buddy of mine asked me if I had an old Fender tube amp for sale. I replied, "As a matter of fact I do..." He came to our Monday night jam at the bar and I loaned him my Fender ProSonic to try out for a week or two. That same Monday night, 12bar member DeaconBlues brought down an amp to let me check out. It is a Fender Blues Junior with some DeaconBlues custom mods. I tried it out on stage and brought it home to mess with. The mods include a heftier transformer, a conversion to 6v6 power tubes, and some others I didn't catch. The end result is a VERY nice sounding amp that I can play with the full band and doesn't break my back when loading up. If my buddy buys my ProSonic, and DB is willing to part with the BluesJunior, I will be joining the BJ owners club. Let's hope all the variables work out in my favor.
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- VikingBlues
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Re: New Amp???
Fingers crossed!
Already a good amp and even better for some good modding.
From what I can gather the 6V6 and heftier transformer will have given an extra output and an improved performance in the bass registers. There's a huge amount about Blues Junior modding on Billm audio http://billmaudio.com/wp/ a lot of which I don't understand at all!
Already a good amp and even better for some good modding.
From what I can gather the 6V6 and heftier transformer will have given an extra output and an improved performance in the bass registers. There's a huge amount about Blues Junior modding on Billm audio http://billmaudio.com/wp/ a lot of which I don't understand at all!
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- DeaconBlues
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Re: New Amp???
Good to hear you are digging the amp, Bb. Those mods are basically the BillM mods with a couple of ideas I came up with to voice the amp for a cleaner response.
I'm tinkering with the idea of converting one of my Pro Jrs. to 6V6 tubes and adding a tremolo circuit. While playing around with this stuff is fun, it does cut into my guitar playing time, so some of it has to get put off.
I'm tinkering with the idea of converting one of my Pro Jrs. to 6V6 tubes and adding a tremolo circuit. While playing around with this stuff is fun, it does cut into my guitar playing time, so some of it has to get put off.
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