'76 mod 5

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'76 mod 5

Post by white noise » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:47 pm

Here is a couple of clips from my '76 mod 5.

guitar to amp to cab, mic into protools and a little reverb.

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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by STEINBERGER » Wed Dec 09, 2015 5:56 pm

Gets the tick of approval. A very big tick that is.

I was having discussions with Mark about getting a mod 5 and then sadly and unfortunately he passed away.
Anyhow by some fluke of a chance i managed to snap one up that came up on ebay.( i was searching for a year everyday ). i did not bid, i just paid for the asking price for a jcm800 with mod 5. I feel incredibly blessed to have one of these as there are only 49 amps in the world that mark did, and considering i have zero experience building amps.

Oh. and who ever said the mod 5 is a one trick pony should bite their tongue. Just by pickup position selection & volume pot control on my steinberger gm4t (the guitar shaped one with the wooden body not the bat shaped one) i can go from vh to acdc to pink floyd to malmsteen to mark knopler to eagles. Just brilliant. Im glad you have one of these amps too!
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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by white noise » Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:50 pm

STEINBERGER, this is not one of Mark's that he modded.
When i got the amp it had a PCB board, which i hate, that was modded back in the early 80's. So I pulled the PCB board and other modfications it had and made my own board and did the Mod 5 to it. The important part is that the PT, OT and choke are original.

For a 50W, it sure has some balls.

You are absolutely right the Mod 5 is very versatile and just a fun amp to play!

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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by garbeaj » Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:58 am

I'm probably the guy that said the Mod 5 is a "one trick pony"...at least in my experience it is. Of course you can get dynamics and change the sound quite a bit by selecting different pickup combinations and twiddling the volume and tone knobs and all that just as you would with any guitar and amp...but I can't get a good clean tone out of it...The clean channel on my Rockstah Marshall was left untouched by Mark, but I would need to have channel switching and I would have to change the volume to get the levels matched...just can't get a good clean sound at my fingertips. It certainly doesn't come close to my Super Reverb for the SRV type stuff when I play my strat.

I like the amp a lot for the first album tones in a bedroom/small club setting, but at least for me it is actually a limited amp. It sounds terrible with low output pickups in my experience...I'm still learning and playing around with my Mod 5, so who knows-I might stumble on some switching option or figure out a way to dial in more things...but for now it is pretty good for Van Halen, but not much else.

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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by jnew » Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:30 pm

Well done. Amp sounds good. :thumbsup:
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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by colonias » Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:29 pm

nice amp, which schematic did you used? im trying to do the mod 5 in my amp too :vh:

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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by AndyK » Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:06 am

Sounds great! Very squishy and detailed at the same time.

You did this to a '76 2204, or 1987?

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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by white noise » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:45 am

jnew wrote:Well done. Amp sounds good. :thumbsup:
thanks James.

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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by white noise » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:52 am

colonias wrote:nice amp, which schematic did you used? im trying to do the mod 5 in my amp too :vh:
Colonias,

thanks, I didn't use a schematic.

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Re: '76 mod 5

Post by white noise » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:54 am

AndyK wrote:Sounds great! Very squishy and detailed at the same time.

You did this to a '76 2204, or 1987?
AndyK,

Here is what she looked like when I originally got the amp.

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It was originally modded back in the early 80's.

Here are some pictures after i took out the PCB and put in the Point to Point board and Prior to doing the Mod 5 to her.

http://s1192.photobucket.com/user/tgrov ... 1976%2050w

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