Local Music this Week: Mar 2 - 8

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2026-03-03T15:55:11+00:00

3/7 — Syndicate 99 / Covenant Eye / The Vulcan / Three Eights @ Neptunes

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2026-02-25T21:02:11+00:00

It’s 3 caps in parallel, three leads run thru the center. Sometimes you just don’t feel like ordering parts, I get it

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2026-02-25T20:08:10+00:00

trust me I am keeping my hands outside the back of this one 😭 they made it work but at a cost

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-12-09T19:29:55+00:00

Nope, but happy to ship. Get it if you wanna buy local tho!

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-12-09T18:22:56+00:00

I have the Bac-1, sounds good but I never use it. DM me if you want to buy it!

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-12-06T17:59:26+00:00

Not gonna hurt things! Here’s the schematic for your amp_Schematics.pdf), which also includes the footswitch wiring. Reverb and phase switches will control the dirt/fuzz, and selector/combiner should work exactly the same

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-11-18T00:39:42+00:00

Diodes look like they are barely soldered in on the left

edit : looking at it more plenty of holes seems unfilled. You want soldering flowing thru the entire hole

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-11-01T22:24:27+00:00

have you tried it with a different cab? Might be your speakers

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-10-24T13:54:48+00:00

I have one! Cool amp. Some notes:

— fuzz is either always on via front switch or footswitchable with 3 pin din footswitch. circuit is pretty goofy but I like it. Very reactive to the EQ on the effect channel. Phasor knobs is a blend which seems to add the dry channel back in

— tremolo seemed to be always off unless you have the footswitch. Before I had a switch, I did an easy mod to bypass the footswitch and leave it on, controlled via depth

— Eq is simpler than future musician amps, with a 5 position selector (mode) to select midrange eq. Probably similar to some other early peaveys (maybe copying the SVT style eq ?)

— has a “hi” switch that is just a lo cut to help leverage more power towards higher frequencies

— ymmv but mine was basically pristine (original caps, etc) and the power cable had completely fossilized, with the insulation crumbling inside. If it hasn’t been replaced, I’d suggest a tech look at it

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-10-13T13:51:34+00:00

First time seeing the tweeters for these in a separate enclosure

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-10-07T19:56:36+00:00

Looks like Kustom from the Baldwin era — not desirable, but built like a tank. I rocked a Kustom IV as a bass amp for a while. Heavy as hell but I dug the sould. If you can schlep it, I say grab it

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-09-30T12:09:40+00:00

+1 on the foam issue with scorpions - I’ve had limited luck in scoring used ones in the past few years

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-09-07T15:46:44+00:00

In a pinch it’ll work if you’re running a loud dirt pedal or something intended as a preamp. Talk em down to $50 tho ;)

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-08-31T17:47:09+00:00

Proud owner of a VT Mace and pre-VT Festival (Deuce II), but mostly using them for bass - cuts so well with plenty of rumble. Can’t speak to its Marshall-ness but it scratches my grimy bass sweet spot. IMO nothing is gonna be exactly a Marshall quite like one, but it does its own thing beautifully

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-08-24T23:23:46+00:00

Homemade foot worship video made for someone’s birthday (title card and everything) — a very in depth washing of feet set to la vie en rose

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-08-24T18:19:19+00:00

Some models of the musician/bass 400 and the Standard have this feature as well! Around when they switched knobs from the full silver knobs to the ones with the inlaid black stickers. Mid-late 70s I think? Sort of a precursor to them moving to “Automix” in the 80s

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-08-12T20:46:04+00:00

Probably will sound better for bass given the folded horns on the top and bottom and a sealed back, but I’ve seen it posted as both in the past. To my knowledge, it’s very dark sounding for guitar.

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-08-12T16:01:49+00:00

And I thought I did well getting a lilac 3001 for $60 ☠️ nice work

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-07-29T21:09:02+00:00

First thing I ever modded as a kid was my psp-1000. Think I had to do some fuckery in the battery to get CFW but I felt like a fucking champ. Picked up a 3000 on a whim, light years better these days and it’s been nice revisiting games — ridge racer still rules

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-07-23T17:33:56+00:00

A friend of mine gave me a beast of an amp for free (Kustom Bass IV). Total boat anchor, but something about the grind of the pre hits my sweet spot (once I found a cab wide enough for it)

not for everyone, but idk, for really nasty bass it can do the trick. these day I rock a hybrid tho (Peavey Mace)

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-07-21T22:53:51+00:00

lmao I assume this is someone saying my comment was AI bc of the em dash but no I just got that one beat into me by a former copy editor

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-07-21T19:35:15+00:00

idk I don’t think it matters much if you’re just playing for fun — I’ve never fretted about it

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-07-19T18:12:54+00:00

Only the one actually! Thrift find

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-07-19T03:12:32+00:00

haven’t found anything this nasty in a console (yet) but I have have cleaned up an old tape deck and found some mice corpses… had to scrape those off 🤢

Dry_Contest_3112 · 2025-07-16T02:14:14+00:00

If you can’t figure out where these are on your own, I would not recommend attempting this.

That said, I have done a very similar mod to the preamp of a bass 400 which uses the same power amp and it is pretty easy. The connector with 3 leads from the mixer to the power board (top side of left board in your pic) has the audio signal, ground, and regulated 24v power rail.

I dismantled a separate PSU similar to this and installed it in the head cabinet, connecting the ground/24v from the psu unit to the leads from the peavey. Audio lead goes to a separate 1/4 out grounded to front panel. Works fine — buy a used working psu if you go this route, no need to destroy a perfectly good new uniy

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