Welcome to my trail and error post. I have never done this before and actually just stumbled upon it (this Blogger site) per Google influence. The Reason for this post/site/blog is: On the web, there is very little shared about Road amps and I was thinking maybe people could add their stuff here, as a place to collect rather than a bunch of bits and pieces from all over. Here was one of my amps = a plain Road amp w 1-12 inch Eminence speaker, that was built in LA, CA when Kustom folded (in Kansas) and they re-invented themselves out in LA through a music Company. Although the amp sounded fantastic after I rebuilt it, I needed to sell it ($140.00), to make room in our small condo. I regret now that I did not take more photos of it when I had it.
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| The finished product |
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| The electrolytic capacitors were shot and so were the potentiometers |
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| This is what I had to replace |
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| These were very odd. I had to rewire to fit what is available today. |
In my journey of fixing this amp I sought advice from people over at VintageKustom.com in 2016. I had posted photos over there but for reasons unknown to me, they no longer show up. This was a great sounding amp once I fixed it. If you find one I hope you will take the time to preserve it.
ReplyDeleteI also got onto http://www.rickenbacker.com/forum for a short time because Road also mixed it up with Rickenbacker for awhile and some Road amps have Rickenbackers name on them too. So I went on their forums to discover anything I could find.
ReplyDeleteSome of the best info I got was from these forums. In fact, one guy says that he worked marketing Road amps.
ReplyDeleteCheck them out:
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/road-electronics-head.614907/
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/road-1-18-amp.390169/