jelle wrote:Does anyone know if this Funk mod is valid/correct?
Do you mean the one Dave Funk used to do (as illustrated in the first schemo)? Yes,that is correct. Yes, it is valid (it won't hurt anything). And it sounds nice. DF was a great tech and builder -- I wonder what he's gotten into now.
Cool... Thanks.
I have done the mod years back in a superreverb. Sounded nice and was stable. Pulled it out soon after...
My tech just called (marty ryan at lone wolf guitars) who is a really good tech.
He hooked it up and said it didn't have enough gain wired like the instructions. He said it just was unusable and maybe there was an error in the instuctions. He said Dave Funk is a great amp tech and can't understand why it wouldn't work. Unfortunately, I still have to pay him for his work even though he put it back stock ($140). He did fix a few other things but basically this mod cost me $70 to not hear.
If you guys can do it yourself and figure out what is wrong it might be cool but I wouldn't rely on those instructions.
Good tech or not, he must have screwed it up. That mod is WAY loud when done right. The first set of instructions on Blue Guitar IS missing a sort of obvious step: when you swipe the triode from V3, you've got to connect Pin 1 to the .02 cap that used to go to V2 Pin 6. Page 6 of the Blue Guitar instructions has it right.
Where are you at? I could do it for you. Or if you're handy with a soldering iron, I could show you how. Great mod. I always did it on the "Nomal" channel, which no one uses anyway.
didn't Ken F talk about a mod for making the sound warmer and cleaner with a couple of tweaks and a switch to a mica from ceramic cap? maybe this mod and your dave funk mod will get you what you want... I'll look up the quote from Ken.
Any info will be appreciated. I think the pro reverb will be a good platform for me to experiment on. The 40 watt 2/12 is the perect size/watt for me.
I have been concentrating on my jazz record lately but I subbed for a guy with a rock band on friday and sasturday and as is the amp sounds pretty dang good! Im sending my Carr slant 6 to Henry at red plate amps this week for him to dumbleize my overdrive channel so Im looking for something a bit different with the pro reverb. I already have a super reverb and have classic fender tone covered. I'm not looking to Gerald Weber the amp or torres the thing-you know "Marshall your normal channel" but I think it might be a fun project to tweak the pro a bit.
