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Re: Kustom III lead pc board 5065 rev2 [message #27365 is a reply to message #27364] Fri, 07 June 2019 09:50 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Thanks for doing that!
This is the first Kustom I have had since the late 90's.
This is in fact the first SolidState guitar oriented head since I had an Acoustic head back in the late 70's.
With the Acoustic I used a bogen tube mic mixer ahead of the input for a distortion more pleasing than the head's internal drive.
This thing is quite the powerhouse and so should be a lot of fun after replacement of all the aged electrolytic caps.
The quality of construction is amazing when compared to current consumer level gear.
I recently was asked to look at a co-worker's Fender Champion amplifier.
The pots were soldered directly onto the board!
When it had been tipped forward ( like that's not gonna happen ) the pot leads tore themselves off the circuit board traces.
After all the broken traces had been jumpered it worked fine again, but wouldn't you think someone in a focus group would have pointed it out?
This head on the other hand is typical of high quality robust service oriented design.
I'm really looking forward to the stares of disbelief when I haul this little surprise out for it's coming out party!

Best,

Lou

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