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Early 70’s Vox AC30 Revived

Early 70’s Vox AC30 (Birch Stolec) Revived Background Info When Jennings Musical Instruments ceased operations, the assets were bought by an organisation called Birch Stolec and they created the company Vox Sound LTD. This is a rare model. It is worth noting that the example of this model which is shown on the website https://www.voxac30.org.uk/vox_ac30_birch_stolec_1971-1973_vsl.html This AC30 was created to have all the features of an AC30 plus reverb. The target was also to […]

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New Features on Our Faster Website

New Features on Our Faster Website We have speeded our website and added new features for both retail and trade customers New features for everyone At the top of the home page on the right you can see two new buttons. You can still continue as a guest and buy as before. If you register on our site, then you can take advantage of our convenient new features.We have added and “add to wishlist” button.

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Egnator Rebel Combo Service Summary

Egnator Rebel Combo Service Summary. Again worn valves but other less obvious issues to be addressed.

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Vox AC30CC1 a simple fault

Vox AC30CC1 a simple fault This Vox AC 30 model is a lightweight one speaker version and the speaker is a special light weight design. The amp circuitry is the same. Its big disadvantage is no lovely Alnico Blue speakers The owner reported the amp as sounding weak and intermittent. I played detective and asked a number of questions. When was the amp last used? It has not been used in a number of

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Fender Blackface Deluxe Reverb 1966

Summary of this amp A lovely Fender Blackface Deluxe Reverb 1966 came to us. It was extremely noisy and the reverb was crackling and popping. It was a USA 110 volt AC model and so used a step down transformer to enable it to run in the UK on 230 voltsThe amp was all original apart from the power supply capacitors and the choke having been changed. It is very unusual ( at least to

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Getting that Superb Fender Tone

Getting that Superb Fender Tone Blackface and Silverface Fender amps were renowned for their clean sounds which moved to nice gentle bluesy break up when pushed hard. How did they achieve this? Fender chose their valves/tubes carefully to produce this wonderful palette of sounds that players just love. If you are country or blues player you are in heaven with these old amps. They command high prices for good ones especially from 1963- 73.

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Marshall JPM50 Re-Commission

A Marshall JPM 50 arrives in the workshop. This blog covers this Marshall JPM50 Re-Commission. This Marshall JPM50 Amp is from the classic era of pre-1973 Marshall amps. It is therefore highly desirable when fully operational. The Marshall JTM50 on its last period of production, was re-branded as the Marshall JPM50. The amp went though final test at Marshall on 13th June. 1972. This is the highly desirable lead model from one of the

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