VintageKustom.com: Repairing Kustom Amps

Thu, 08 March 2012 14:37

cassent5150
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Registered: August 2009

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I have a K200-2 I'm working on and I'm having a problem with the preamp signals when they are both hooked up. Each channel sounds great when hooked up independently. This came in as an empty chassis with a 303 board and face plate. I robbed the transformer, rectifier, power filter caps and output section from a K-III (PC-5065). I got the 303 up and running and installed a PC-105 in the non effects side and ran each pre amp outputs through a 33 K resistor and hooked them together into the input of the PC-5065. I found that this reduced the signal a bit too much. I went strait in with no resistor and had plenty of volume on the 105 but the 303 is dim and distorted. I tried putting resistance in the 105 output but can't get the distortion out of the 303 unless I totally unhook the 105. The 303 is clean and strong then. Anyone have any ideas?????

Steve C

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