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Offline Unitmonster

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Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« on: January 05, 2006, 04:51:44 PM »
Hi all,

Strange post but I thought I might be able to help a few of you out and possibly help my family as well.
My uncle is a long-time electrician who got into a hobby of building and doing custom mods for guitar amps a few years ago.  He's got a good ear for tone and obviously knows his way around a circuitboard.  Recently the mine he worked at announced it is shutting down and he's going to be out of work after that. 

He's starting into a bit of paid custom-shop work for tube amps and I thought I'd tell him about our community to see if he might be interested in offering his expertise to people on the board for taper-related custom work, since there seems to be a shortage of people doing it these days. 

What I was wondering is if you could give me an idea of the type of work that people be wanting done. I don't want to step on other people's turf here (for example, I know there are already a few guys who do custom cables), but given the recent troubles with certain Freelancers, and Oade's apparent backlog of work, are there other things needed?

Some things that came to my mind were:
- Making active mics
- Modding preamps
- custom batt boxes

anything else come to mind? Any thoughts?

« Last Edit: January 05, 2006, 04:54:31 PM by Unitmonster »
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2006, 04:55:54 PM »
That post in the Pre-amp forum about modding the PS-2 and the AD-20 into one box... there was mention of adding VU meters to the UA-5.

That right there would be a nice mod.
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2006, 04:56:18 PM »
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2006, 05:05:36 PM »
yeah, that's what reminded me actually. I had talked to him about it over Christmas and it slipped my mind.  Possibly something he'd be into trying.  I'm basically trying to put together a bit of an inventory of possible jobs that he'd be expected to be able to do and tell him about it so he can decide if this would be his kind of thing or not.  He's a pretty major perfectionist so I don't think he'd want to get involved if he wasn't 100% sure that he'd be good at it.
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2006, 05:17:32 PM »
actives for the 480's
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2006, 05:26:16 PM »
anyone ever make actives for the cheap oktava 012 mics?  ken at oktava said it wasn't possible but it would be cool if someone could do it...
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2006, 05:28:41 PM »
Quote from: Bean on January 05, 2006, 05:17:32 PM
actives for the 480's

Ditto, but I'll add for the 460's / 480's  8)
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2006, 05:45:35 PM »
thanks for the input guys!  Any other ideas more than welcome. I"ll pass this stuff by him via email and see where it goes from there.
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2006, 05:55:16 PM »
Quote from: Krispy D on January 05, 2006, 05:26:16 PM
anyone ever make actives for the cheap oktava 012 mics?  ken at oktava said it wasn't possible but it would be cool if someone could do it...

I would think that for the amount of $$$ it would take to make actives for the MC012 you could easily upgrade mics entirely.
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2006, 06:02:55 PM »
Quote from: Nick Graham on January 05, 2006, 05:55:16 PM
Quote from: Krispy D on January 05, 2006, 05:26:16 PM
anyone ever make actives for the cheap oktava 012 mics?  ken at oktava said it wasn't possible but it would be cool if someone could do it...

I would think that for the amount of $$$ it would take to make actives for the MC012 you could easily upgrade mics entirely.

good point.  just trying to stretch what's already in the gear bag...
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2006, 06:07:27 PM »
Quote from: Krispy D on January 05, 2006, 06:02:55 PM
Quote from: Nick Graham on January 05, 2006, 05:55:16 PM
Quote from: Krispy D on January 05, 2006, 05:26:16 PM
anyone ever make actives for the cheap oktava 012 mics?  ken at oktava said it wasn't possible but it would be cool if someone could do it...

I would think that for the amount of $$$ it would take to make actives for the MC012 you could easily upgrade mics entirely.

good point.  just trying to stretch what's already in the gear bag...

Certainly no harm in that.

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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2006, 07:34:48 PM »
Quote from: Chuck on January 05, 2006, 06:42:48 PM
Quote from: Bean on January 05, 2006, 05:17:32 PM
actives for the 480's

Word!

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Didn't someone even have the active cables all machined out? Maybe sickrick? I know I saw a picture.
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Re: Custom mod work. What does the community need?
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2006, 07:57:01 PM »
John,
 I think we may have seen the same pics.  I think it was over in the oade forum.  They had machined the both end and had wire connecting them.  I think that was as far as they got.
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