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White piping is allready shipped to my adress , so new pics coming soon.SteveD wrote:Cool!
Now maybe some white piping...
Yeah white piping for sure; it made my JMD look loads better also.SteveD wrote:Cool!
Now maybe some white piping...
Nebulozny,Nebulozny wrote:I always thought that one part of the iconic look of Marshall amp is the red power switch, which MA lacks, so after checking out mods at JMD part of forum I decided to do it myself. Bought the JCM switch for 5$ , and replaced the old one, a bit tweaking with wires since you have to swap position in order to have the light function properly and here you go...a cooler looking MA front.
Nebulozny wrote:Hi there, welcome to the MA club, and try some of sound tricks we posted here on forum to make it sound even better
Well I guess one of ways to put this amp to lower end shelf is a black power switch in it...just cosmetic downgrade to make it look less like JCM's and other big brothers.
And it's a piece of cake to change
I am borrowing pic from another thread but this is what you will see when you open the amp, power switch on the far right. Now, you replace it with new one, and put the wires in same places as they were layed out in original switch, brown - blue on the top are ''live'' wires which bring power to switch, and low ones are going to the amp. My problem was that light was on all the time even when amp switched off, switch is working ok , so I just changed order of these wires, so now ''live'' wires are down and those going to amp are up, I hope you understand me.
Do this only if you have same issue as me, could be that your switch would work ok on original wiring but if not , just change them like this and no problem, switch works the same wires down or up, but light is a bit different wired I guess in my switch.
Here is a drawing of switch as you look it from the back ,and to show you how to change wiring, what was up is now down.
Thanks again. I'm definitely going to try something as a master volume in the effects loop. Didn't occur to me to try a OD pedal as a master volume when I was ordering a passive attenuator for my MA50H (still waiting for it to get here). The place I bought it from claims it won't color the tone but we'll see since we all know attenuators are notorious for being tone soakers. If the attenuator doesn't work out, what would be a good pedal to use as master volume in the effects loop? It looks like you favor the SD-1.Nebulozny wrote:No prob mate.
About preamp tubes, I have changed them to Tung-Sol's, really nice overdrive.
There are no real mod's on the forum, just some tricks to use with MA... please check this link below for details, basically you put overdrive pedal in effects loop and use it as a master volume control, I think you will be surprised by the sound.
http://marshallvintagemodern.com/viewto ... 6&start=15
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