Hey George. It's Sonny Seabury in New Orleans. I just wanted to drop by and say hello. I hope that life is treating You and Your Other Family Members Well. I also pray that all of Y'all are in good health. I'm the guy that bought the DVL-1 Amp from you a while back. I'm still truly loving my amp, and I tell all of my guitar playing buddies about you. Every single one of them, regardless of the styles of music that they play. They all go crazy over my DVL-1 Amp that I bought from you, about 1.5 years or so ago. Plexis and Modded Plexis have always been my #1 preferred amps, over anything else, and You and Dave Friedman will Always Remain My #1 Amp and Tone Gods. Much love and respect from Sonny in New Orleans, La.

Love your work George. ❤

Awesome! THis is like when they used to battle with the morality of dissecting a human, to learn anatomy in the name of science!

YEAH GEORGE! I could watch videos like this from you all day. Your reverence and hesitation to disturb even one original solder joint is relatable and so endearing. Tough call, but the results… that amp sounds SO GREAT. Thanks for sharing.

LOOOVE this experience!!! Thank you for taking us through the mid pot. swap!!

What George id doing is the very essence of Rock and Roll. Godspeed George, You are a rebel.

INCREDIBLE!!! George that was SO FUN TO WATCH!!!!!!!! Edge of my seat!!!!! Sounds PHENOMENAL!!!

Sounds great!! I actually felt your stress when you were working on the amp!!

I actually played that amp in your basement George if you recall and it changed my life. What an experience. The best sounding amp I have ever played. I am eternally grateful for you allowing me! If your new amp sounds anything like it (and it appears that it does) you should sell a ton!

Thank you for this and thank you for the forum which I’d been on since 2010…I learned so much from so many smart people there, including of course yourself. I always posted about the physical playing of the guitar and I never once picked up a soldering iron…but I still learned more on your forum than I learned anywhere else! Thanks for everything!

Appreciate what you've done here, George. Ordered mine (50W) last night. Been pursuing 12301 tones for decades. Tried almost everything and have gotten close, but never enough gain. Love all of the early Van Halen tones, especially that first album. Peace, Scott!

Great to see this - your demonstrated attention to provenance and preservation is unimpeachable. Sometimes you just have to dig in though. It’s been a long time since the Corunna road shop, but it’s great to find you here, doing excellent work as always!

Hooooe Leeeee Shiiiiiiii that TONE! Freaking out over how good this amp sounds, particularly in the hands of someone who can play with skill and feel! Fantastic job, George!!!

Eddie said in an interview that his tone was accidental.I think the same can be said for Hendrix and many others that were in the right time and the right place. Not to take away from their ability and unique phrasing and arrangements in their playing. They are all guitar hero’s to countless players,including me.They did the searching and found the answers for their tone. We are all,grateful to builders and players of the past ,and those who continue the search for tone. Rock on brothers .

If there ever were a tech who should disturb a 50 year solder on a vintage Marshall, I think George would be that tech. Besides it's for a righteous cause.

What always mystified me is that in the late 60s, people with Marshalls tended to use fuzz boxes of various kinds to get distortion, but yet the best distortion there ever was just comes from a cranked Marshall. I wouldn't shed one tear if every original (and replica) Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face on the planet were to be fed to a grinder.. Because THIS, a cranked Marshall, is infinitely better sounding. I guess it must have been the drugs.

Fantastic work, George! You are a Tonechaser king !

Awesome, George- thank you for sharing this. It’s pretty incredible that you have dedicated yourself to getting HERE and have actually replicated THE tone!🤘🏻

U rock George, always enjoy your vids!!! cheers

In the name of science and great tone.

Wow!! That sounds Amazing!!

George....! 👏🏻 The mighty =V//= (amp builder)

Way to go, George!

Sounds wonderful.

Crap man that amp just wanted to say hi and let kick ass! That sounded good!

Worth it!

Incredible reality show watching this...found myself saying " no, don't do it" 😢

Thank you George!

I have a 50-watter I converted over to EVH-spec with support and direction from Friedman on the complete spec! I also put in a 3-way power switch, so could have LO-OFF-HI modes. I did the Mark Cameron trick he gave me like 10 years ago and for the LO-mode, use the 100V and 240V taps instead of 0V and 120V! What you basically have is a 140V spread instead of 120V spread with a 120V input. This cuts the voltage across the entire amp, both B+ and heaters to about 86%, hence a built-in Variac without an external unit being needed! Since that time, other amp builders, like Suhr have it in the SH-68 and I believe Friedman is going to put one in his upcoming amps, but people have already been doing it for a while...and now you know!

Nice George

Some of that solder used in the late 60's early 70's does'nt melt till 465'c /// another rumor about eddies early amp was that it was ran around 105 volts ...which would give sag ,or breakup quality to the sound

I like to add a 10 k resistor to ground on all my Marshall builds on a 25 k pot. I usually end up with it at around 8.

Let's go!!

Wow!!!

Wow

woah………nice

When are we going to get a 12301 synergy module

wow man

George would it be possible to add a 25k resistor to the ground lug on the normal 25k pot to "somewhat" simulate this, maybe put it on a switch, of course I understand you'd still only get 25k resistance on the other side. I'm guessing you may have already try to do something like this in your normal models.

You should get George Lynch tone with your designs!

smokin... 🎵r0ck0n 🎵

My God in Heaven, this sounds INCREDIBLE!!!

awesome! so did you add a 330uF to 0.68uF cap? And what did you to the neg feedback?

wow

Niiiiiiice

Is there a schematic for this conversion? I already switched to the 50K Mid Pot, But I don't quite know what's the procedure is for adding the 25K clipped, and the extra cap.

The mid pot and the fat cap you need to sell this evh 12301 series spec clone. How much for one

Hey George, what guitar are you playing? It doesn't look like it says Gibson on the headstock.

You know eddie would have ripped it apart without a thought lol.

You have rheostats in place of the screen resistors?

wow!,,,,,

So you changed the 25k mid pot to 50k, .68uf to 330uf in V2 and NFB to 100k/4ohms only?

What’s crazy to me is the fact the builder had no idea what he just did when he finished building that amp…. Using whatever parts available and maybe taking shortcuts to get the amp in working order… they created an entire universe “accidentally.” Not only changing the course of rock music forever but also inherently causing the white rabbit effect where thousands have traveled down the rabbit hole.

George What pickups are in your Les Paul?

Couldn’t you of alligator clipped in a 25k resistor over the pot without desoldering?

I assume less negative feedback?

No se activan los subtitulos ? Mensaje para youtube: me cago en ti!

I’m not going to touch it.

ehhhhh, really? Ever heard of a Hakko 808?

Can`t take it with you lol

I wish people would STOP Fu@kin up these vintage amps