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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: Big chief on July 21, 2018, 12:03:21 pm

Title: Voice of Music
Post by: Big chief on July 21, 2018, 12:03:21 pm
Found old Voice of Music in decent shape V 167 has anyone modded one of these to make a tube amp if so please give me some ideas what to do  Sounds pretty good now but can always sound better
Thanks for any info
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: shooter on July 21, 2018, 05:13:24 pm
a schematic we can all work from is a good start
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: Big chief on July 23, 2018, 01:52:29 am
Have searched the net can not find sechmatic or any information on this amp
Just thought maybe someone had serviced one of these amp and could help me
Seems to be very rare
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: sluckey on July 23, 2018, 06:15:59 am
Show us some pics. Here's a schematic...
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: Scsoul on July 23, 2018, 02:41:00 pm
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: Big chief on July 24, 2018, 06:59:18 am
Cannot post pics. Thanks for the sechmetic I will experiment with it  again thanks very much for your help
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: MacGwyn on July 24, 2018, 10:53:12 am
Wonder if this product had anything to do with the HeathKit folks... they were also in Benton Harbor, MI I believe.  Assembled several HeathKits when I was a kid.
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: shooter on July 24, 2018, 11:48:25 am
to lazy to google history, I do know a couple acoustic players that have used modded versions and love how the amp does NOT "add" to their sound
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: PRR on July 24, 2018, 05:46:10 pm
> Wonder if this product had anything to do with the HeathKit folks... they were also in Benton Harbor

No more related than Whirlpool, still in/near BH.

A century ago BH was hopping with docks and manufacturing. The Heath company goes to the early days of airplanes, but was traded-around. After WWII they ate surplus electronics and shipped kits.

VM was founded in that post-WWII period, and perhaps in the general atmosphere of low-rent buildings and surplus machinery, but seems to be no relation. They both faded-away at similar times, but if you did HeathKits you recall the global changes in electronics which doomed many old names.

Meanwhile BH has changed a lot, population fallen, property value gone.
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: Ed_Chambley on July 25, 2018, 07:42:46 am
You guys know Heathkit has re-started DIY operations.


https://shop.heathkit.com/shop
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: shooter on July 25, 2018, 08:46:11 am
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BH has changed a lot
through the late '90's /2000's it was vying to become Detroit west, drugs, gangs.
It's trying to get back to the "better" days.  As a teen in the '70s was a great place to take your Girl
Title: Re: Voice of Music
Post by: Big chief on July 26, 2018, 06:39:48 am
Replaced old caps with same value sounds much better with my old Gretsch guitar
Thanks for all your help