12 Technology Drive, Ste. 13 East Setauket, NY 11733
Our Specialty is the Repair, Overhaul and Restoration of Vintage & Modern Tube Amps
IMPORTS - RARE AND ONE OF A KIND AMPS - MODERN TUBE AMPS INCLUDING KIT AND "BOUTIQUE" AMPLIFIERS.
We have over thirty years experience in the repair, restoration and fine-tuning of tube amplifiers. Unlike most guitar shops we are a qualified high-end audio repair shop with full test equipment and extensive technical background. We take tube amp repair far beyond the usual "replace all the caps, change the cooked resistors, clean the controls and hope for the best" approach that we see typical of most repair shops. We have done extensive restoration of vintage equipment that has been repaired and modified through the years, often losing precious tone along the way. We can voice amps to match your requirements and taste, and offer technical ability along with years of knowledge of how amps can and should sound.
We do not routinely change film (tone) caps unless by customer request, are actually defective or have been replaced with improper parts in the past as these are critical to the sound of a vintage amplifier.
Repair costs are 145.00 plus parts, extensive rebuilds and custom work
extra. Tube change and bias 48.00
Our turnaround time is two weeks, no rush jobs are usually accepted.
Some additional Info:
The owner and lead technician of our shop built his first guitar amp from a RCA tube record player chassis when he was ten and is pretty old now. Having owned, played and repaired Fender, VOX, Ampeg,Marshall, Gibson and hand made amps, with every type of guitar- Danelectro,Teles, Strats, Gold tops, Ricks, 335's, in every style including C&W, blues, hard rock, and funk.
A after school job repairing amps in the basement of a
Long Island music store led to a thirty plus year career in audio
equipment repair.
We test all amps on test equipment, custom designed emulator boxes and
our reference speakers cabs - 2X12 Jensen Alinco,1X12 Celestion Blue,
and 2x12 Greenbacks.
Our basic premise is that good tone begins in the combination of Guitar
- Amp- Speaker, not in add on's, stomp boxes and studio effects - If the
sound is not there in the first place it is just not there. No matter
what the style this is where it begins.
We provide a combination of "Bench and Ear" to fully meet the unique
requirements of repairing vintage and custom tube gear.