[Harp-L] Re VHT Special 6

[Tom Skailes <tom.skailes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert

You're right, this is a great amp, very much in the spirit of 
Tweed/Blackface Champ and Gibson GA5, but with no negative feedback 
loop, so more grind. I bought it as the re-issue Champion 600 I'd bought 
a year or so ago didn't really deliver the goods and lacks volume.

I think it sounds great out of the box and haven't done much to it, 
other than to modify the tone control slightly as per the tone capacitor 
mod listed in Jim Rossen's very useful site:
https://sites.google.com/site/jimdramps/home/vht
which seems to take a bit of the edge off the tone control, giving it 
more useable range.

Beyond that I have plans to mod it to switchable grid leak bias, upgrade 
the input resistor to say 5.6M, and add switching in/out of the cathode 
resistor bypass caps - which I'm planning to swap to 22uf as per 
Champ/GA5 - but all that is only 'cos I want to give it a try.

Regards
Tom