resistors and capacitors

[crguti]

I just found out a very interesting article about resistors and capacitors related to amps and guitars. I will stick it here so you can read it.

• Mojo Parts in Guitars, Effects, and Amplifiers Part 1: Resistors
  
• Mojo Parts in Guitars, Effects, and Amplifiers Part 2: Capacitors

[Brown Note]

That pretty much sums my thoughts about vintage = horrible quality. In the olden days, they did produce some of the greatest sounding amps ever, but the variation between unit to unit ment that out of a hundred, there were probably a couple great, lots of good and a few amps that were bad. Modern amps, if they are designed so, can have 99 great amps out of 100. This is due to the modern components being MUCH better in every way than those used in the oldendays, and PC boards allowing the wiring to be accurate and perfect in every amp! If you look at old fenders and marshalls, you can see the so called "rats nest" wiring that's just plain bad in every sense of the word. They might be easier to repair, but its also mandatory that you do so!

[STRATDELUXER97]

That pretty much sums my thoughts about vintage = horrible quality. In the olden days, they did produce some of the greatest sounding amps ever, but the variation between unit to unit ment that out of a hundred, there were probably a couple great, lots of good and a few amps that were bad. Modern amps, if they are designed so, can have 99 great amps out of 100. This is due to the modern components being MUCH better in every way than those used in the oldendays, and PC boards allowing the wiring to be accurate and perfect in every amp! If you look at old fenders and marshalls, you can see the so called "rats nest" wiring that's just plain bad in every sense of the word. They might be easier to repair, but its also mandatory that you do so!

Most of those early circuits were just copies of Western Electric circuits....Most of the really great sounding amps,were great circuits,but some of it was also happy accident and the right combination of components and tube combination..Remember that in those days,those amps weren't cranked up really loud until the Marshall company brought the clean tones to another level...Thanks Pete Townsend...LOL...Tolerences and component values were all over the place in the early stuff also..Some amps as you mentioned,sounded heavenly,and the next same amp just quite lacked that something special...Biasing of the output tubes is enough in itself to make a dramatic difference in the tonality of those same side by side amps.

Guys that played their bass guitars through the Fender 59 Bassman 4x10 amp,surely didn't crank the amp to 12...Until later the guitar guys found out how great a guitar sounded through the same amp,but cranked up... ;o)