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Topic: Fender Steel King-reverb issue |
David Biggers
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Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 5:06 am |
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I bought what I believed to be a new Steel King from All About Music in Fl.off Ebay.
Scott the owner claimed it was a new Steel King purchased from a guy who bought to many and liquided his inventory.
Whatever!
It was in no way brand new. I was however a nice used Steel King.
The amp came to me yesterday and the reverb does not work.
This has the largest reverb can made by Accutronics. 9EB3C1B.
CAN THESE UNITS BE REPAIRED?
If not where in the heck can I get one to replace the one that was damaged or broken.
What is it that gos out in the units anyway.
It looks like a new one.
No issues I can visibly see.
There appears to be 2 small transformers on the end of each side attached to the spring brackets, is this where the unit gos bad? |
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Jay Ganz
From:
Out Behind The Barn
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 6:10 am Re: Fender Steel King-reverb issue
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| David Biggers wrote: |
CAN THESE UNITS BE REPAIRED?
If not where in the heck can I get one to replace the one that was damaged or broken.
What is it that gos out in the units anyway.
It looks like a new one.
No issues I can visibly see.
There appears to be 2 small transformers on the end of each side attached to the spring brackets, is this where the unit gos bad? |
In some cases they can be repaired.
Usually there's a break in the fine wires leading to those small coils on either end of the spring unit.
Sometimes visable, sometimes not. It also could be the main cables leading to and from the reverb tank itself ( with the RCA plugs on them).
The whole thing can be replaced from mojotone.com or other electronic parts sites. |
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David Biggers
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 6:33 am
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Hi Jay
The only thing I can see wrong with it is it has a loose transformer on one end. Moves around on the square shaft it sits on. |
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Bill A. Moore
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 7:04 am
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| Dave, like Jay says, they are under $30 at AES, Mojo, etc. The transducers are suspended with a spring on each corner, your's may have come loose in shipment, also check continuity, it's not hard to break the small signal wire. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 9:26 am
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I think that a digital delay/reverb would sound better than springs.
Do you know of anything that has the right I/O levels and impedances to be a pop-in replacement for the spring reverb? |
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Bill A. Moore
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 9:41 am
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| Earnest, I've seen some Belton solid state units in the AES catalog. They claim to easily replace a spring unit, maybe someone on the Forum has tried it already. Personaly, I like springs. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 10:49 am
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" a loose transformer on one end."
According to something I read somewhere(Vintage Guitar Magazine?) this is undesirable. That same article gave an upgrade kinda tip. I think it had to do with tiny wedge-shaped shims that were glued in? Anybody else remember this? |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 10:50 am
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| Bill A. Moore wrote: |
| Earnest, I've seen some Belton solid state units in the AES catalog. They claim to easily replace a spring unit, maybe someone on the Forum has tried it already. Personaly, I like springs. |
Interesting. I see unfamiliar (to me) multi-pin connectors on the Belton. And the one guy who heard it said really bad things about the sound (pulsating, and out of tune with the input signal...) |
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David Biggers
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 11:33 am
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| kinda like my playing! HA! |
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Ray McCarthy
From:
New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 11:39 am
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| Get a Holy Grail Nano. Simple digital reverb with three settings, and the "spring" setting is supposed to be better than most real spring verbs. |
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David Biggers
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 11:40 am
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yep I did.
Thanks |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 12:30 pm
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Ray and David: I see the two of you have tried the Nano. I had already started a new topic about those pedals. Perhaps you could post your reviews there, for future reference.
Lee |
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David Biggers
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 12:36 pm
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mine is the older version not the Nano but I love it. Small and works everytime.
Cost me about $100.00 new several years ago |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2009 4:07 pm
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| Ray McCarthy wrote: |
| Get a Holy Grail Nano. Simple digital reverb ... |
The Nano I/O is a high impedance, low level, device to plug your guitar into.
David and I were asking about a unit that works with the pre-amplified signal levels of spring reverb units. One big advantage of this is that the dry signal doesn't go thru the effect box. |
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