They also somehow didn't get that the way they did the standby would eat recipients but they were responding to consumer demand. I honestly think that with the cc2, they did a lot of great bells and whistles like input linking, tube bias, EQ response switching, and filter switches but offset the cost with cheap speakers.
Then they wouldn't have a reason to come out with the C2 series! There are a few mods there that are purely because it's a very early run cc2 and they got fixed later in production, like crap tubes, wrong fx loop cap value (schematic typo), trem speed, hardwired speakers, the rest are gravy. Only one last thing for me to swap out really, and that's the OTĪlanp wrote:Something I always wonder about. The biggest fixes tonally have been the speakers and bright caps, the rest is cumulative or just fixing things for better utility for me. If I discount speakers and tubes, it was probably $80 of parts and 2 hours of time which has been time and money very well spent – Changed tubes to JJ power + rectifier, Sovtek preamp (Sovteks were surprisingly good, although I have some Tung Sols to try, and a Weber Copper cap for if the rectifier goes) – Changed crappy Wharfedales out to Alnico's, settling on the classic 2x Celestion Blues (great combinations included 2x Greenbacks, Silver + G12H30, Silver + Creamback, Silver + Blue, Gold + Blue, 2x Gold - favourites were blue + gold, 2x golds, 2x blues) – Swapped out all the caps in the signal to Mallory caps (C11,C14, C15, C17, C18, C19, C20, C23 to Mallory equivalents) – Changed the screws out for ones that don't strip instantly – Changed the Plate resistors for more gain, and more vintage spec (replaced R6 & R7 100k Plate Resistors with 220K Resistors) – Removed Top Boost Cathode Bypass cap for tighter bass, more headroom on the TB channel (removed c9) – Changed the treble cap in the top boost channel, and the one on the TB vol pot (c13 to 68pf, c16 to 47pf) – Added more gain to the normal channel, changed the brilliance switch caps to be useable (removed and jumpered R49, C12 to a 100pf cap, and then put a 68pf cap across lugs 1 and 2 of the Normal volume pot) – Sped up the Tremolo (changed R38 to 27K, R37 to 100k) – Swapped out reverb tank for an Accutronics one (replaced R18 with a 28K, added a 470K resistor across lugs 1 and 3 of the reverb drive switch, replaced pan with Accutronics pan # 9EB2C1B) – Made a junction box for the speaker wire/reverb cable to connect to and attached it to the chassis - essential to save headaches and swearing when changing tubes or speakers.
Here's the list of things I have inflicted upon this poor thing so far This post is really just for posterity for myself rather than anything else. As you know I have an AC30, and I've been modding it over time to see how good it can get.
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