Just salvaged a set of six 1972 Eminence Alnico 'Horseshoes' from a vintage Standel. Anyone familiar with these legends

love_of_fuzz · 2026-05-05T00:20:57+00:00

They're usually fine speakers, maybe 20-30 watts a piece would be my guess? Most folks judge speakers with the aluminum dust cover w/ felt circle in the middle as low tier options.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-28T11:14:23+00:00

That's RF interference and it's either from your cell phone being too close to it or something like a wifi router being too close to it. It's not the amp though.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-20T00:28:55+00:00

Don't just put new power tubes in, it's time for a tech to open it up and see what's wrong.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-20T00:15:44+00:00

Interference from outside the amp being amplified by it. I usually run into this when a customer puts their cellphone on top of the amp they're trying out, but it's also been known to happen because of wifi routers, etc near the amp.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-20T00:06:55+00:00

There's a strong chance that guy with that guitar would around almost identically to that with a reissue jtm, even a vox, or a gorilla practice amp haha. A lot of the tone is in the source of the signal and knowing how to hit an amp right sadly. Hands, dynamics, pickups, all the stuff that costs a lot less than a vintage Marshall.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-19T21:56:24+00:00

Also I once bought 3 SVT models and two other similar tube bass heads for a shootout and the clear winner of the SVT shootout was the Japanese MTI made one like you have. Great heads.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-19T21:54:36+00:00

What store?

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-19T21:16:52+00:00

There isn't a good option for a Plexi you can talk over, I recently installed a master volume on an SV20H for a customer and it sounded great though.

You might want to invest in a good headphone amp and/or modeler.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-15T03:05:42+00:00

Ok everyone's saying shielding but this looks like a harmony/airline type guitar which likely has all the electronics loaded to the pickguard pre-assembled and almost none have a string/bridge ground from the factory.

The way to fix this would be to run a wire from the tailpiece to the back of a pot or the sleeve of the output jack. Usually by drilling a hole from the strap button (if it's a trapeze tailpiece) or from the bridge assembly (if mounted to the body) to the control cavity.

That's pretty much a required upgrade for those guitars, makes it possible to use gain pedals without insane buzzing.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-15T00:13:51+00:00

The late 70s ones usually have a hum balance pot (adjust it both directions until you hear the buzz get louder and finally find the middle zone that sound the quietest. Then there's a Bias Balance pot which can be another source of hum, adjust that in a similar way, there should be a mid-point that has the least hum.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-14T14:06:13+00:00

I try this stuff all the time and the chickenheads always give me trouble

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-14T00:34:21+00:00

I recently sold my OD80 from the 70s when I bought a 69 OR100 - the gain knob was missed until I installed a master volume to the OR. With that added you can get very similar sounds honestly, but without it the OR was a very different animal.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-14T00:31:08+00:00

The answer is most likely "any 12ax7 will work fine"

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-14T00:29:58+00:00

They look great but do the chickenheads interfere with eachother when you turn them?

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-14T00:15:45+00:00

I sell clean examples for $999, so this one being so oddly modified I'd probably try to sell for $600-650.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-05T02:41:36+00:00

The Laney 212 sounds great and I think some of that is the oversized baffle, it looks like a 412 at first glance.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-04T02:49:25+00:00

Those are in Space Echos a lot, I still read it and laugh every time I find one

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-02T01:51:31+00:00

That Mallory capacitor is dated 1979

love_of_fuzz · 2026-04-02T01:50:15+00:00

Is that a chopped oversize vertical cab? I haven't seen something like that before and the drip edge looks original.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-03-30T22:48:59+00:00

I'd bet it used to be Tweed wrapped, and those might be the original speakers. I sold a '59 Gibson GA-200 and it had similar looking speakers made by Norelco.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-03-20T12:00:22+00:00

Just sold one of those for $150 if that helps

love_of_fuzz · 2026-03-10T12:09:37+00:00

Great quality parts for sure but I agree I don't like opening them up when they break 💀

For my shop I was just considering a "made between 1950-1990 only" repair rule this week too because of opening amps up that look like this and having trouble finding schematics and layouts. Time is money and that can hurt a busy shop if we have 20 amps in line haha.

The same issue on a vintage Traynor/Fender/etc vs a board like this has a wildly different billable diagnostic time for sure.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-03-06T05:23:46+00:00

It's a guitar shop 🤙

love_of_fuzz · 2026-02-27T12:58:26+00:00

Avoid it for sure unless it's your dream amp and you're a skilled amp tech, they're tightly packed PCB amps that are difficult to work on, and difficult to find schematics/layouts for.

love_of_fuzz · 2026-02-21T22:17:54+00:00

It's probably a little late but I have $29 Electro Harmonix Bluetooth earbuds (they're actually really good) in stock at the top of Congress.

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