hey everyone,
i’m looking to upgrade to a pure vintage tube amp for playing live, and i need some help narrowing down my options. i play a Senn Model One DLX equipped with dual P-90 single-coils.

my biggest hurdle is that i need a single amp that can bridge two very distinct sonic identities:

garage rock side: when playing clean or right at the edge of breakup, i want a sharp, glassy, high-treble garage rock rawness with a lot of bite for bluesy riffs.

alt rock side: when i hit my fuzz pedal (running an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi), i want that signal to turn into a compressed, massive, thick alternative rock wall of sound.

my current setup & dialing habits:
i currently use a Boss Katana 100W Gen 3. to get close to what i want digitally, i run the “pushed” amp model with the master volume maxed out at 100% to simulate pushed power tubes. my always-on EQ settings are:
gain: 2 o'clock
bass: 10 o'clock (pulling out sub-bass mud)
mids: 1:30
treble: 4 o'clock
presence: 2 o'clock

preferences:
format: i have zero preference between an integrated combo or a separate head-and-cabinet stack. whatever works better.
size/aesthetics: size and weight do not matter to me at all. visually, i love massive, intimidating stage setups (like Jack White's multiple Twins or Kevin Shields' walls of gear). i want something large-format that commands the stage and pushes real air.
i’ve been looking into high-headroom circuits like a Fender '65 Twin Reverb for the treble bite/clean slate, or a Marshall JCM800 2203 reissue half-stack for how it compresses high-gain fuzz.

given my P-90 pickups and my Katana settings, which vintage tube platform is going to handle this dual-tone puzzle best on a live stage without turning into fuzzy mud? open to any unique reissues or head/cab configurations. thanks!

tl;dr:
looking for a large-format vintage tube amp for live gigs. playing a Senn Model One DLX with P-90s and using an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi. i need one rig that can pull off both glassy, raw garage rock leads (Jack White style) and a thick, compressed wall-of-sound fuzz crunch (Smashing Pumpkins style). currently running a Boss Katana 100W Gen 3 on the "pushed" model with the master at 100% (bass at 10, treble at 4, presence at 2). format and weight don't matter, but i love massive, intimidating stage setups. considering a Fender '65 Twin Reverb or a Marshall JCM800 2203 half-stack, which one is the best fit?

Howdy from Dublin, Ireland

Doing a restoration on a 1981 Vox AC30 (Rose Morris Era)- replacing the power tubes (el84) and the main power capacitors which look to be original. Works fine but has a bad hum which is constant and ever present on all channels and with no instrument/ cable connected.

There are three main power ones a large 60/100uf double capacitor can and two smaller ones rated as 50+50uf and 32+32uf respectively.

The wiring on the 50/50 cap has red wires and yellow wires connected to similarly marked lugs and then a silver/ unmarked cable attached to a plain lug with no colour.

The replacement caps from JJ Tubes (like for like for the 50 and 32 double caps and a double 100uf one which i understand can replace the 60/100 one) have no colours on them but two positive (marked +) terminals and a negative terminal (marked -)- see pics.

My instinct is that the caps are effectively two similar capacitance caps in one enclosure so it possibly doesn’t matter which + I connect the red or yellow to and the uncoloured cable goes to negative.

However very new to all this and some guesswork involved here so I’d be grateful for any advice or confirmation/ correction on the foregoing.

I'm posting this so other's like me can find this answer. I have a Champion 600 reissue without any mods (working grill cloth and speaker replacement), but I wanted to run it hot at lower volumes because small house and family. I got a Joyo Roll Boost for cheap and put it at the end of my signal chain, right before the amp, and it works perfectly as a gain knob for that amp. If you want to spice up your Champ at true bedroom volumes, go for it!

Hey guys,
I’m thinking about picking up a Boss GT-1000 Core to run with my EVH 5150 Iconic Head using the 4-cable method.
Does anyone here run this exact combination or something similar? How does the boss behave in the 5150’s effects loop?

thanks

4 high gain amps and some killer guitars too - Full Video here - https://youtu.be/vDOfTBWU-OA

Gear featured:
Suhr Custom Modern Magenta Pink Stain
Jackson Custom Shop USA Special Edition Rhoads Platinum Pink
Friedman Jose 100 100w Jose Arredondo Tube Amp Head
Gibson Artist Slash LP Goldtop Dark Back
Marshall JCM 2555-SL Slash Signature Full Stack
Bogner Ecstacy 101B w/ Bogner 4x12" Cabinet
Charvel San Dimas S-Style Grover Jackson Flamed Maple Top
Kubicki S-Style 1980s Bob Gorske Custom Paint
Dover Amplifiers DA-50 50-Watt Guitar Amp Head

A tube went out in my Peavey VK212 and I'm seeing conflicting answers on whether or not I can just replace one tube or not. I'd rather not drop $150 on four tube if I don't have to. And I did swap it around to make sure the tube was the problem.

Tolex finally showed up this morning. I had the afternoon off so I decided to go ahead and do it. It's ivory, the photos make it look white, but it's a little creamier than it looks. Also, the grill cloth is a little more maroon than it looks. Anyway there's still a lot to do but the major stuff is done at this point. Happy with it so far. Once I get all the cabinet stuff done I'll go back to the circuit and just really let it soak. After the fall it took I worry about solder joints so I'll probably reflow everything and really wail on it with chopsticks to try to get it to fail, etc. But so far so good, everything works as it should and it sounds good. Once I get back to that portion of the project I'll post some photos of the circuit, capacitor dog house, etc.

Can you tell these four Friedman tube amps apart by ear? I used the same Ally Lee DI guitar performance for each real amp and balanced the levels. The reveal is at the end.

Signal path: De Lisle switcher into the same Sunn 4×12 in another room, DV77s and Greenbacks in an X pattern, shared TC Electronic Plethora X5 effects loop.

https://youtu.be/oAOg0YNj9Cs

Curious which amp's character comes through most clearly—and which you'd pick without knowing the name. Disclosure: my own video; I also make amp captures/profiles.

Just a super quick post about the Twin Reverb cabinet I'm building for a customer whose amp I dropped.
I've been working with her for a long time and I need to give a shoutout to Sandy at precisiondesignin.com.
She makes all my faceplates as I do a lot of custom one offs, and she's quick, professional and delivers great results.
Got the faceplate for the amp today and it looks sharp.
If you need custom plates she's worth checking out.

I want to get a Ceriatone JCM800 2203 and I’ve heard that Nik will do pretty much any mod out there, so I was wondering if there are any highly recommended mods that I should take a look at. Thanks

Hello!! I’ve been curious about getting a tube amp for some time, but I play with a pretty massive board. Running through probably 15 pedals, and a lot of effects I use and sounds I make require full frequency response. Essentially I need a guitar amp that synth sounds could pass through without issue.

I currently play a Roland JC-40, but I feel like I could be benefitting by 1. Getting a quieter amp 2. Getting a tube amp that compliments my tone and overdrive response better than the JC.

I was curious about the Fender Deluxe Reverb ‘65 reissue, but if anyone else has good recommendations please shoot them!!

Some players I love for reference are Jeff Parker, Nels Cline, Julian Lage, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Gregory Uhlmann, and Mk.Gee

Looking for someone to post a picture of the inside of an ENGL Savage 120. I got one from someone knowing it didn’t work and I’m trying to make sure all the connections are correct. Thanks in advance.

Quick update. You may have read about me dropping a customer's Silverface master volume Twin Reverb a week ago today. Building him a new cab and it's coming along well but in the meantime yesterday out of the blue a friend offered me a free Twin Reverb which turns out to be the exact model (master volume) and year (1973). Crazy!
Took it home this morning and gave it a look. I've seen worse. One speaker with a bad cone. Replaced with a Jensen C12K. Smashed/frozen normal channel volume pot. Will replace that. Dodgy recap job at some point. Faceplace slightly pushed in but I can bend it out at some point. Missing two output tubes and the two that were there were 5881s (no good for this amp). Replaced with four fresh tubes. Cabinet solid.
It all looked decent enough that I decided to replace filter and bias caps and fire it up to see what was what. Finally applied power about an hour ago and went through the vibrato channel. Initially no reverb or trem. Tightened up reverb jacks and replaced a cathode bypass cap. Reverb springs to life! On trem, found a broken ground connection on the 100K resistor from low side of intensity pot to ground. Replaced that and trem sprang to life as well!
At this point it's playing well in the vibrato channel but I haven't replaced normal channel volume pot yet to see what's up there. A few more hours on the bench and I should have any remaining issues addressed.
I'm thinking about replacing the bias circuit (bias balance which sucks) with AB763 bias adjustment circuit.
I've offered it to the customer whose Twin I dropped as a backup, cheap. It doesn't sound as good as his yet but should once I'm done. He's thinking about buying it. Crazy how this is all working out.