Gee Donner said:
Elpresidente,
If Pete told you not to tell anybody how to do 'his mods', the respect that and keep it to yourself :wink: Give him credits for his research!
///G
What G said. In the case of some of these mods, I spent a LOT of time coming up with them... I'm probably going to have a few solid weeks of time in the XTC stuff that is ongoing right now. I know some of my mod work can seem expensive, but some people (Egnater) thought I was undercharging.
When I take all the time into account, it's kinda scary but I'd probably make more money working at a convenience store.
I also don't like sharing some of these mods because of the issues that come up - I don't have time to troubleshoot everything that can happen if one of my mods is used. I was reading earlier about someone that has a module that isn't working right and it's most likely from swapping out C3 - which shouldn't be a big deal at all. My mods are much more complex. Much.
Plus as I stated before, parts I choose are selected for the specific module and value of parts in that module that I'm not going to replace - I don't just grab a .022 part and slam it in, depending on some of the other values on the module I may grab a part that is MARKED .022 but really measures .020 or .024 - when you replace several parts, it does make a difference.
I burn in modules - meaning after I do a modification, I let em run for awhile, and in many cases I take them to gigs or rehearsals to be sure they perform the way they should. I also have a full set of Randall amps (RM20, RM20 combo, RM50, RM100, RT2/50 and RM4, Marshall 4x12s and Randall MTS 2x12) that I use to playtest modules. There's a lot more to what I do than just change out a few coupling caps to orange drops. If that's all I did or if I just tacked parts onto the top of the board without taking them apart, I could turn mods around in 30 minutes tops instead of weeks.
Plus someone could do a homemade mod that was a copy of what I did, and do it poorly/have a bad sounding module, and later on down the line someone thinks *I* did that work. That just kills the value of the work I did, imho... and it's a little prideful of me, but I really enjoy the fact that guys gig with my mods and get compliments on the tone. Doing these mods is kinda like putting my children out into the world.
Pete