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Oct 13, 2017
9V/1A US Plug AC Power Adapter Guitar Effect Pedal For BOSS PSA 120T Archer Tool
I bought at least four of these and they are all junk. Some make noise. Some do nothing. The last one worked for an hour or so and then dropped off voltages so low that my Boss ME-50 no longer worked. Digitech Overdrive won't work on it either. They are all junk. I went and bought a more expensive model. Hopeful they work better.
Apr 20, 2016
I bought two, four years ago.
4 of 4 found this helpful My turbines were old and making noise. I could see that they were allowing rain to come in too. Once I learned that turbines are just hype, I quickly ripped them off my roof and popped on these static vents on the old turbine mounts. They screwed right on.
That was four years ago. I was just on the roof last week and noticed that these static vents still look like brand new.
They are quiet, durable, long lasting, keep the rain out and are just as effective as turbines. And they screw right onto the old turbine mounts. They look better too. But I paid about $40 for mine.
I live in the high desert. So we get some crazy weather up here, and these things still look like the day I pulled them out of the box four years ago.
Dec 04, 2012
Try using a speaker attenuater with it!
5 of 5 found this helpful I've been playing guitar for 40 years and am currently using this amp to make a living in a top 40 rock and country band. Old to new we cover a ridiculous variety of music, and I do it all with a factory stock and original MIM FBDR.
My amp sounds absolutely amazing! But only because I use a power soak (also known as a speaker attenuater) I turn the volume, master and drive to full, use little bass or treble but use a lot of mid, use the #1 input, and I use the drive channel mostly. WOW! It sounds as good as ANY vintage Fender amp! All that ice pick harshness people talk about....GONE! It's just classic amp tone! It seems magical. Roll the volume on the guitar back just a hair and it has sparkly cleans. Dime the guitar's volume and Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way is coming out of it. You know that 3D sound a cranked tube amp is capable of? This is it! The tone no distortion pedal can produce. The amp reeks of vintage goodness. You'd never know it wasn't a real cranked 1958 Tweed Deluxe just by listening to it. I didn't need a booster for leads really, but I used one anyways, and the soloing was CLASSIC Page, Hendrix, Eagles, etc. I'm really blown away. I was ready to throw down $3000 for an old Fender Tweed cause I was so frustrated with everything else.
So now, I've been thinking....that the magic here is simply resistance in the power section. As an aerospace technician, I know a little about electrical resistance and how it increases in electrical windings with use and age. The FBDR is all a vintage Fender is, but without the TIME effect on it. Like a bottle of wine, an amp sound better with age due to the resistance build up in the windings that comes with time. The coil in the speakers too build resistance with age. You can't read high voltage resistance on your ohm meter, because your meter is doing a read with super low voltage. The resistance is present only to high voltages, not low ones. In aerospace it's called a dielectric test. Where resistance (and leakage) is measured using high voltages.
My experience is that am old amp sounds best right before the output transformer blows. Transformers blow because the windings have failed. They fail because the resistance in them gets so high that their windings melt from the heat the resistance causes! The pieces are all fitting here! That's also why a fan blowing on an old transformer is such a good idea! Because it's running hotter than ever before! Heat causes resistance and resistance causes heat!
One day I won't need the power soak anymore. Time and use will age the speaker coil and the amp's transformers to the point where I can crank it on full without the need for adding resistance. In aerospace, the vintage amp would be scrapped and replaced due to it's high dielectric resistance readings, but in music...now the amp is a golden collectible!
My power soak cost $30 brand new! It's the best $30 I ever spent, but I might buy a higher quality one.
Good luck!