Gut shot of Torres "Custom Build"

[Teleguy61]

Is one power supply cap installed backwards? 100uf 350V

John

Sure looks like it.

[M Fowler]

Here is my mess by Dan himself.

[Ken Moon]

He was definitely in love with shielded wire, eh?

As I've gotten older, I seem to use less and less of the stuff

[Cliff Schecht]

Here is my mess by Dan himself.

All of that and he left in the original bias caps?? Lmao seriously???

[rp]

He was definitely in love with shielded wire, eh? As I've gotten older, I seem to use less and less of the stuff

+1, I go w/o it and then might add it later if need. I think if you are going to be that lazy and sloppy all that shielded wire is a necessity.

[cbass]

Wow I'm speechless. How in the hell do these guys keep going?
People look at me like I'm crazy when I tell em I can fix their amp then automatically act like I'm gonna rip them off.but theyll ship it all the way across the country to this loser.

I guess its better to look and sound like you know what you're talking about than to actually know what you are talking about.

[M Fowler]

Yup and there are at least two other threads about Torres messed up amps with lots of pictures if someone wants to spend time in search mode.

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.ph ... ght=torres

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.ph ... ght=torres

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.ph ... ght=torres

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.ph ... ght=torres

[Deric]

Here's one I worked on a few years ago. Looks pretty good compared to the others.

Managed to make it work. Sounded like ass - owner thinks it's awesome. Whatev.

[Zippy]

My Super Texan amp looks the same except I have a radio shack relay board laying on top of my tone board. It is the worst sounding amp I've ever played through and is out of phase so I run a reversed speaker wire.

That was my experience too.

[xtian]

These are some great photos to add to the "Modded by Bubba" thread over at TGP.

[rp]

That RS board is only bolted on one half, with 3 bolts though, the far side is simply propped up by an e-cap that's attached to it. I wouldn't do this fearing a playing card in bike spokes kind of rattle. I also would have just used a terminal strip to hang the parts off of, with some forethought you can hang a lot of crap off something like an 8 lug strip. Plus easier to work on and service, but I'm a little too fond of terminal strips. It would look a little more mindful that those RS boards.

I was taught never to criticize someone else's work, you never know what pressures they were under or what some ass higher up was pushing on a guy, but I like amps too much to not comment, plus it's kinda fun

[beasleybodyshop]

Here's one I worked on a few years ago. Looks pretty good compared to the others.

Managed to make it work. Sounded like ass - owner thinks it's awesome. Whatev.

At least he threw some F&T's in it! lol.

[talbany]

Looks like Johnny Winter might have had an amp or 2 modified by Torres!!..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXi0o5RiZg8



Tony

[printer2]

Now I am starting to feel really good about my layouts.



Maybe it is a way of discouraging people from copying his work?

[M Fowler]

I was playing a hot 4th of July party for Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) and our Peavey PA cabinet started on fire. The crowd thought it was part of the show at first.