Solarfire

I hear ya, corona simply has no respect or the common decency to stay out of people’s lives!

Let me guess, you're a drummer?😎

Thanks to all for the warm welcome, pretty active site here, looking forward to the interaction. Well I did a total tear-down of the amp, recapped it, redid the wiring, replaced the speaker terminals and RCA jacks with higher quality ones, replace the mains filter with a better one and implemented diverse revisions mentioned in the service manual. There’s really no such thing as a favorite tube for me in the realm of guitar-amps, since the tonal colorations that come with various tube-types is the toolbox for creating the sound/tone one needs for the job at hand (rock, metal, blues, jazz) and so on. Some of the typical used are the 6L6, EL34, EL84, KT88 in the power-amp section, amongst others. Carverfest 275? Is that the Carver Crimson 275? Wouldn’t mind having that one in the inventory. Unfortunately the last tube amp (Hi-Fi) I had was “The Fisher” KX-100 back in the eighties Well I got a Peavey Wolfgang Standard, an Ibanez rga321f spb prestige, a Epiphone Elitist 61SG, a custom build Warmoth/USACG Strat-style, a customized Epi Les Paul standard, an Aria Pro II ZZ Deluxe and a Yamaha AES 620

Hello all, I’m an electronics/software engineer and an old Carver fan since the late 70’s early 80’s. I currently own a TFM-42 and a small TFM-15 which I’ve upgraded, serviced and recapped. The TFM-42 is driving a pair of JBL 4425’s in my home Studio and the TFM-15 is currently driving a pair of JBL L65’s and sometimes a pair of JBL L100’s in the living room. I’ve gone through a lot of equipment over the past 40 years but got hung up on the Carver/JBL sound in my environment and my music (rock, blues, metal and so on), which mainly comes out of this era. I’ve also done a lot of restoration of vintage JBL speakers. I also do development in the area of tube-amps and tube-preamps/overdrives for guitar, amongst other electronics in the area of laser-drivers and embedded control systems. Beyond that I’m a guitarist and have been playing for the better part of a half century now…wow, time flies! So that’s my short-form introduction, glad to be here..