Did my first amp mod!

[backwardlefty]

Yay! Nothing blew up and I'm not dead! Yay again, Yay!

Alls I did was disconnect the tremolo circuit in my DRRI, but it was kind of a pain in the butt. Let me just say that I don't care much for desoldering braid. I'm going to get a solder sucker before I ever do anything like that again

The amp sounds a lot fuller. Plus, I put in some NOS preamp tubes, an NOS rectifier, and some brand new Tung-Sol 6V6GT's, and it sounds AMAZING!!!!

[ux4484]

Did you bias it when you were done?

[backwardlefty]

Oh yeah. I had JJ's that came with the amp, and it was a floor model, so it had been played a bit. I put in fresh Tung-Sol 6V6GT's, so it needed to be re-biased. The TS's are rated at 12w while the JJ's are far more robust and rated at 14w. I had the JJ's a bit higher, at about 70% max, but these I'm running at about 60%. The sound, with the NOS valves in the preamp, is very vintage-ey. It's brighter and thicker, more responsive, and just sweeter overall. I had to reset the entire amp - volume, tone settings, reverb. I even had to adjust my pickup heights. The tonality of my setup changed a lot, for the better - MUCH better