xjbebop
Well-known member
SBMM Valentine gut shots
Dug out my bag-o-pots and other spare parts the other day and found a few goodies I need for upcoming projects, including a right-sized p/p pot for the Valentine.
But when I opened her up for surgery and got a better look at the tone pot, I was surprised to see how busy it is.
Along with the usual tone cap, there is also a wire from the boost circuit attached and tied into another cap & resistor!
Since I didn't have the correct match for those, and assuming that they just might be important for the gain boost circuit, I decided to hold off the mod... for now...
I'll collect up the right parts for later, but the reality is that this guitar is pretty much perfect as is. After I had some time with her I found that, on a clean amp setting in particular, on the neck pup, when rolling the volume from 10 to 8-ish, instead of turning the sound to dark mud, it just drops into a very smooth, sweet & sparkly voice. (that's a lot of commas!)
Just my opinion, but I'm thinking that adding a split feature might just be redundant, so now I'm in no hurry.
Of course, I might get bored and change my mind later...
OK, on with the pics...
Internals look very typical for an import... I've seen quite a few...
Some sheeple get tweaked about it and scream "OMG...I've got to upgrade all the electronics to bigger & better!!!"
....no, you really don't, unless something actually fails....
The gain boost circuit is mounted to the top (bottom?) of the volume pot...interesting....
Here's the busy little tone pot!!
Don't know if this will help anyone, but there it is.
If I spent more time practicing rather than working on these things, I'd be a much better player
But, it's what I do and I enjoy it.
BTW - LOVE THIS GUITAR!!!
Dug out my bag-o-pots and other spare parts the other day and found a few goodies I need for upcoming projects, including a right-sized p/p pot for the Valentine.
But when I opened her up for surgery and got a better look at the tone pot, I was surprised to see how busy it is.
Along with the usual tone cap, there is also a wire from the boost circuit attached and tied into another cap & resistor!
Since I didn't have the correct match for those, and assuming that they just might be important for the gain boost circuit, I decided to hold off the mod... for now...
I'll collect up the right parts for later, but the reality is that this guitar is pretty much perfect as is. After I had some time with her I found that, on a clean amp setting in particular, on the neck pup, when rolling the volume from 10 to 8-ish, instead of turning the sound to dark mud, it just drops into a very smooth, sweet & sparkly voice. (that's a lot of commas!)
Just my opinion, but I'm thinking that adding a split feature might just be redundant, so now I'm in no hurry.
Of course, I might get bored and change my mind later...
OK, on with the pics...
Internals look very typical for an import... I've seen quite a few...
Some sheeple get tweaked about it and scream "OMG...I've got to upgrade all the electronics to bigger & better!!!"
....no, you really don't, unless something actually fails....
The gain boost circuit is mounted to the top (bottom?) of the volume pot...interesting....
Here's the busy little tone pot!!
Don't know if this will help anyone, but there it is.
If I spent more time practicing rather than working on these things, I'd be a much better player
But, it's what I do and I enjoy it.
BTW - LOVE THIS GUITAR!!!
