Picked it up for a steal since it was already modded. Don't know why the previous mod drilled 2 holes in the rear chassis, 1 of which was to install a dedicated ground lug for a simple cathode mod on V1b.
I wanted to take advantage of the existing holes and make it as versatile as possible.
The basis of the mod was the Cameron Atomica, but with a proper punch control true to Cameron and not the Friedman implementation. I installed a 3 way gain voicing on the V1B cathodes similar to the CCV. Installed a 3 way clipping switch. The Pinch control is push pull. Pull adds bottom and is a hard wired setting. In pull, the rotation of the pot is disabled. I did this because that setting is based on the Bogner XTC 'loose' excursion setting and it is a sweet spot for the low and medium gain tones. With clipping of and the switches adjusted, can get close to some XTC chewy blue channel tones. Much of the XTC voicing comes from the NFB circuit. I also added a metro loop that I mod to be better suited for the lower levels post tone stack of Jose modded master volumes. The Roccaforte has a low plate voltage, so I spent alot of time A/B'ing and tweaking to compensate for the lower voltages.
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clipless bumper wrote:Is this the third thread on this amp, or the third Roccaforte Custom 80 you have bought?
Sorry I forgot the last one and it was posted in the main forum instead, so I didn't see it here I've been tweaking it until this morning and forgot.the last thread. My apologies
Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
