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I got this Marshall amp way back, kinda beat up but it has master volume and sounded cool. Got it cheap so how can you go wrong with an amp like Eddy uses? After you live with it for a while and hear how quiet your buddy's amp is and other guys amps you wonder if you can get your amp quiet too? can you get that really loud sound without it having to be really loud?
I tried an attenuater but that kinda ruined the tone when you got it to be quiet. I know the whole point of the master volume amp is to be able to get the sound of a cranked amp at low volume, but it doesn't have that smoothness that turns out comes from the power amp clipping. Who knew?
I guess Kevin at london power knew cuz he came up with power scaling so rockers like me could get the tone without the cops coming by every time. This is like the best thing since electricity
I had done a few simple mods like adding a gain cap and snipping out some bright caps. The tone got better each time but then I heard about this little master volume mod from a friend that has the first TUT book. It worked! Just adding one resistor made the MV totally useful! So I figure this guy knows what hes doing - haha
The London Power site has all kinds of cool nformation and I read about the power scaling stuff for hours, trying to absorb it all. Kevin answered all my Qs and gave me lots of help before and after I bought the kits. Stuffing the board was a bit weird with the one-percent resistors, but i used my meter to check them and got everything built, then got it wired in. I did the testing without tubes and then put in some glass and fired it up. Holy cow ! I got awesome tones at stupid low volumes. Like I could hear my strings rattling even with the sound like a stack blowing up
This is like crazy good!
The most amazing thing is that the amp sounds better quiet than loud which is like totally opposite of what everyone says it should be
Guess KO was right about that one too.
I think this was the hardest mod I'll ever do but it is way worth it. I got The Ultimate Tone 3 after that to see if I could make the amp noise lower. of course, it worked out exactly as I hoped with a lot of chatting with Kevin about what parts I missed along the way. He was like my cheer leader giving me encouragement and I couldn't have done it otherwise. I have a great sounding amp now and a new friend. Good thing he's a rocker too or I'd be really confused
I got this Marshall amp way back, kinda beat up but it has master volume and sounded cool. Got it cheap so how can you go wrong with an amp like Eddy uses? After you live with it for a while and hear how quiet your buddy's amp is and other guys amps you wonder if you can get your amp quiet too? can you get that really loud sound without it having to be really loud?
I tried an attenuater but that kinda ruined the tone when you got it to be quiet. I know the whole point of the master volume amp is to be able to get the sound of a cranked amp at low volume, but it doesn't have that smoothness that turns out comes from the power amp clipping. Who knew?

I guess Kevin at london power knew cuz he came up with power scaling so rockers like me could get the tone without the cops coming by every time. This is like the best thing since electricity

The London Power site has all kinds of cool nformation and I read about the power scaling stuff for hours, trying to absorb it all. Kevin answered all my Qs and gave me lots of help before and after I bought the kits. Stuffing the board was a bit weird with the one-percent resistors, but i used my meter to check them and got everything built, then got it wired in. I did the testing without tubes and then put in some glass and fired it up. Holy cow ! I got awesome tones at stupid low volumes. Like I could hear my strings rattling even with the sound like a stack blowing up

The most amazing thing is that the amp sounds better quiet than loud which is like totally opposite of what everyone says it should be

I think this was the hardest mod I'll ever do but it is way worth it. I got The Ultimate Tone 3 after that to see if I could make the amp noise lower. of course, it worked out exactly as I hoped with a lot of chatting with Kevin about what parts I missed along the way. He was like my cheer leader giving me encouragement and I couldn't have done it otherwise. I have a great sounding amp now and a new friend. Good thing he's a rocker too or I'd be really confused
