A blog about vintage amps, pedals and their working. For over 20 years I’ve been dissecting amps, pedals and guitars to see what makes them tick! And I love a good mystery! So dive together with me in the information I can dig up from various places (both digital and analog) to tell you more on the units I work on. My main addictions are Fuzz pedals, Chorus pedals and 50’s amps. And the rarer, the better
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Articles of interest
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Kitty Hawk – The Kid; 18W 2x EL84 amp with a problem
This great amp was waiting for some TLC! This is a Roy / Kitty Hawk ‘The Kid’ amp. A 18W 2x EL84 amplifier with a dedicated clean channel, a dedicated overdrive channel (called ‘Lead’)…
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Klemt Echolette – BS40
And then this beauty came in! This Klemt Echolette BS40 just looks amazing! Klemt Echolette Klemt (as made by Arthur Klemt) starts his own business in the 30’s in Olching (near Munich), Germany,…
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The HENK; an unknown pedal
I LOVE unknown pedals! I love to trace them, to find out where they are based upon and why they sound like they do. And to find hidden gimmicks. This pedal is called HENK…
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Kitty Hawk – Junior Pro tube amp; 1985 Dumble or Mesa
Kitty Hawk was the company the Roy brothers started after they brought out amps under their own name. Their former work were mere copies of Vox models. Then they established themselves as the go-to…
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Sescom ADB-2 ‘hybrid’ DI box
I LOVE weird looking things. And when this pretty, beat up unknown DI box came online, and it was basically free, I wanted to check it out! DI boxesThe box is a Sescom…
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Germanium Fuzz Face clones: Mooer Grey Faze / Tomsline G-fuzz
Bring in some cheap, Chinese fuzz face clones As a big fan of Fuzz Face pedals I recently got interested in these cheap Chinese clones of the Fuzz face. They are small, sound decent…
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And then all went black
And then all went black Or really white…. I’ve registered Blogger in 2011; I’ve posted 3 messages. I had the idea to share my ideas and repairs on vintage amps and pedals with the…
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Hello World!
This is the first page I made on this blog; more will follow. I already own a blog on Blogger but due to SEO problems I’m trying a different approach. I’ll copy all information…
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