Hi all,
After building the Dlite, I was thinking about modifing my Hotrod deville 410. I love the clean channel but can't stand the overdrive channels. Have any of you modified a hotrod deville before to sound more dumble like? I know Alex Dumble has turned many fender amps into dumble's. If anybody has some insight on this topic, I would appreciate it. I do know fuchs and torres Eng. will modify fender amps for a heafty price, but I would rather do it myself
that isn't a good candidate for modding, it is a PCB with CHEAP components and ribbon cable, the topology is totally different.
IMHO
The only way to do it is to gut it and start from scratch......I'd sell it and get a showman or a bandmaster or something to mod. My $.02
IMHO your best bet is to sell the HRDvle & buy a PTP-wired amp, like a Fender silverface, to mod.
I had a HRDlxe, and I know the schematic well...and the guts of that amp. PCD-socketed tubes, plastic input jacks, not much room to work in there either. Whereas an old silverface fender has loads of room. Also consider an older Traynor (less trendy, but damn good for modding), Ampeg, etc. or build one from scratch. You can get a great chassis from ceriatone or weber, and go from there. The chassis & trannies are th biggest cost.
If you pick up transformers used, you pay a lot less; I'm putting together a Tweed Pro from ebay iron, I'll post my 'testbed' for dealing with the unknown tranny in a week or so (I'm out of town all next week.
