Greg_L wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:56 am
I'm pretty disappointed with the guts of this Jubilee. I wasn't expecting this kind of IBM PC construction in a classic reissue. I'm fine with the normal green PCBs where you can still see the traces and plot things out, but this is just wtf. I have no idea what any of this stuff is or does. It's all painted black! I have no idea what that blown cap does and I can't find a schematic anywhere. It's a 10uf 160V. I'm guessing it's something with the filaments or bias supply. Fuck if I know. All I know is that it's clearly blown and I'm gonna swap it out. On the plus side, this thing looks like it comes apart pretty easily. All of the wiring is spade connectors or those molex connectors. It looks like I can probably remove the entire board without even heating up a soldering iron. I'm gonna have to take a thousand pics and label these wires.
yeah .... where are those things made?
They have to lay out circuits for mass production purposes.
What a LOT of modern mass produced amps do is replicate the old circuitry but using a newly designed version .... Fenders have been like that for a while.
The amps sound pretty much the same because the function of everything in the circuitry IS replicated but the
actual circuitry that's doing it is layed out completely differently and even the components might be changed.
It's so stupid now ..... get this, true current on-going story.
I needed a powered PA speaker so I bought a Fender Fighter 12" powered for a New Years eve gig.
Pretty decent unit actually for around 300 bucks.
The third gig I did the screws that held on the plastic polemount fitting popped thru the plastic and it was wobbling all over the place.
So since it's new I didn't want to open it up and run some good bolts in because it might void the warranty so I took it to the Gold Rated Fender tech Fender themselves said to take it to.
He calls me the next day and says they have to replace the entire unit!
There ARE no replacement parts for it at all and the same is true of anything else they sell that's around $300 or less.
It's cheaper for them to simply give me a new unit because they prolly only cost Fender 30-40 bucks to make and not having a parts inventory saves a ton of money!
That's fucking crazy!
They didn't even give me the option of just fixing it myself ..... he even told me he couldn't give me back my unit!
He's lucky I'm old and don't give a shit or I'd be down there with the cops making sure he knew he damned well
could give me my unit back.
So because of a plastic part that a couple of washers would fix, they destroy the old one and give me a new one ..... stupid.
I'm gonna by an aluminum mount and keep it handy 'cause it will do it again.
So the more these things are stamped out by the giant amp-stamping machine in China, the more that under-the-hood they will all look like computers that've been made to the specs of whomever.