MODIFIED PEAVEY BUTCHER W/MOON CUSTOM HEADSHELL
VINTAGE PEAVEY BUTCHER WITH MOON CUSTOM CABINETS HEADSHELL
Once I saw it in the MOON CUSTOMS headshell, I had always intended to keep this one for my own collection but I can’t keep ALL the best ones for myself.
Rather than my usual adding a ton of gain and extra features, I wanted this one to be a mammoth pedal platform. Smooth and full sounding with intention the best tone and just the right amount of added control.
There is still more than a vintage amp’s amount of gain in the high input, and tones ranging to anything from tight and focused to thick and wooly.
For the low gain input, I kept in mind those who love get their dirt from pedals and the simplicity and tone shaping ability of everything going in the front end of an amp.
It has all that sky high HEADROOM, VOLUME and CLARITY you need for delay/verb/modulation.
I sacrificed the “booster output” (which honestly, I can’t imagine a need for especially on the front panel) and added Resonance a pot in its place as well as a “frequency shift” pot (based on an additional hole someone had already drilled there)
Between the added controls and internal tweaks, just about any tone I could need for a pedal board or even just a dirt pedal platform is right there.
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MODS AND FEATURES:
•full recap of all electrolytic caps
•replaced blocking caps with Mallory (huge tone improvement!! Smooth, warm, full, vintage)
•Original SYLVANIA (tested good) 6L6 power tubes and various used/good 12AX7 tubes included.
(Add “retube” in the drop down menu before checkout if you want it retubed with KT77 and new preamp tubes)
•replace power cable with an IEC connector and cable
•resonance control added to front panel
(this is like a bass knob for the power tubes! It overdrives the low end in the power section so you can have the bass where it needs to be, the power section!!)
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•tone stack frequency control added to front panel
(this shifts the frequency response from thick and vintage to tight and chimey)
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•Treble control now has a great cut and chime to it without getting too stabby.
•”Secret sauce” preamp value changes to go for a vintage Plexi-meets-Matamp tone.
•presence values were changed to the smooth, vintage high mid like in a super lead instead of the “ice pick” of modern amps
•Bass control has even more lows and even produces more chime when pushed
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•bias control
(Allows for more tube options biased correctly)
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•removal of high current and high voltage molex connectors
•full recap of all electrolytic caps
• IEC connector for power cable
•resonance control
•tone stack (mid) frequency control
•Mallory blocking caps
•preamp modifications
•bias control
