Recent content by USAPatriot

Re: Post your main guitar This is exactly what I saw the first time I opened the case! My latest acquisition is a 2014 Gibson Les Paul Standard in Heritage Cherry rim burst. Yup, it has the Min-etune...which has actually proved useful but there's a warranty issue with it. It only works when the...

NOTE: This is a first look, first impression review. There is hopefully MUCH more to come in the following days and weeks. I am NOT being paid for this. I can keep them and pay for them or I can send them back, my choice. That was the deal I made with them. ************************* Wow, I'm...

My JCA22H had to make an emergency trip to the shop and the expert hands of Robert Perales. A few weeks back the wife was out of town and as is my habit, I drag all my gear downstairs where the TV and computers are, that way I can play at will without having to go upstairs and miss whatever's...

...look what's inside of you. Here's an oddity and even I can't explain it. Last week one of my preamp tubes in my JCA22H popped it's cork from some transient...I heard the pop inside the amp...and then all of a sudden I'm getting FM music through my cabs. Again. Dammit. So I found the offender...

Confess!

No time to really post now, heading off to bed but I wanted to get these up. I took them this afternoon. There's interesting stuff here...the effects loop connections on the left side of V4, an unknown Test Point below V7 and V6...the two violet wires labeled "Bias" and the effects loop wires...

Not meaning to be rude here at all but if anyone is interested, there is an unofficial forum dedicated to Jet City Amps at: http://drakearis.com/jcacommunity/index.php -Rod-

Just out of curiosity, what elements combine to give a speaker a (supposed) different flavor? Some speakers, like the Eminence Patriot series Texas Heat claim to deliver a southern-rock sound while The Tonkerlite is Blues, Southern Rock and Country. What I know about speakers is how to plug...

Have any of you Jet City amp owners, particularly JCA22H owners, had any problems with your footswitch shorting out at the jack? My JCA22H arrived today and the first thing I noted was the footswitch wouldn't work. Went to unplug it and the switch came on. So I pulled the plug and unscrewed the...

Are your cats/dogs or birds music lovers? 3 out of 5 of my cats regularly sit in on my practice sessions. One of those not so fond of it will at times stretch out on top of my amp while I play. They all prefer clean to gain, bass and mids to treble, though Alicia, pictured below at my feet, was...

Coming Monday! -Rod-

Is anyone here taking the plunge and going for the BOSS GT-100 board? I got lucky yesterday and sold two amps plus one guitar, so have already ordered the GT-100 and may grab a Blackstar HT5R stack too, dunno yet. I have the GT-10 and have been pretty happy with it but it's not often that my...

I'm curious. Where in an amp would you look to find and measure it's actual output wattage? I have a Whattmeter that I've used for years to test ESC's', batteries and motors in my RC planes but I don't know much about the guts of amps...tube or otherwise...other than to change and bias the...