![]() I'm not sure what to do with this fella, but I have a feeling it will stay in the shop as a guitar demo unit (I do like the cleans mixed with the spring reverb) until someone needs a beat-up rawk machine. It seems that the tolex-covered (rather than felt-covered) versions of these are a little rarer and they sure look a lot better. I have a Butler tube driver blue 575, 5 channel amp. The upper (non-padded) jack also does not hold plugs all that well compared to the lower. The jacks are all those panel-style ones with the irritating plastic threads, too, so you have to be careful about not over-tightening them. You can purcahse the SB, MCU or both for VFE projects not carried by madbeanpedals. ![]() It's now ready to roll, though it does show plenty of wear-and-tear to the tolex covering and metal hardware. Softie1 (125B) Softie2 (1590B) Softie3 (125B, 1590B) VFE v.3 Switching Board. My own work on it included fixing things that'd been fudged before: it needed a new 3-prong cord installed as someone had clipped the ground prong, all the pots needed spraying-out and the jacks needed tightening, the two preamp tubes needed replacing (I just stuck some spare Chinese 12AX7 ones in there but would put lower-gain tubes in if I were planning to get a more bluesy tone), it needed a serious amount of cleaning-up, the fiber-board holder for the speaker connector tabs needed to be fixed back onto the speaker's frame, and the speaker cable needed replacing as it'd been hacked-up.
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