Guitar Work

 

String change

$25 $35 (12string)

Set up

$50

Pick up change 1st

$50

Additional

$10each

Electric components

$40

Additional

$10each

Acoustic preamp install

$100

Tuners

$40

Nut

$40

 

Tube Amp Work

 

Retube preamp

$40

Retube  Power /Bias

$50

Complete retube

$60

Clean pots

$45

Tube Check only

$40

Maintenance (check ,cleaning,bias)

$100

10 year (check, cleaning, bias,  replace filter caps)

$130

20 year (10 year plus all electrolytic caps)

$180

 

Pedals

 

Cleaning

$40

Switches/Pot replacement

$45

 

 

Tube Amp Bias

Maximize tube life while providing a strong healthy tone quality, by proper adjustment to release the optimal tube operating characteristics. Tubes initially drift quite a bit from their correct bias point. For this reason, it is always suggested that you retube with burned-in tubes. This means that a new tube will change its characteristics quite a bit, and that once a day or two of use is on the tube, that the characteristics will stabilize to a large extent. This is very important to understand and use. Over time your tubes will require a different correct bias voltage in order to run at optimum performance. Failure to keep tubes properly biased can reduce an otherwise fine tube's lifespan by years.

 Amp Maintenance

Includes tube amp bias, cleaning potentiometers, cleaning and re-tensioning tube sockets, diagnose and advise on general operation, specifications, condition of all tubes, power supply and failed or missing components.

 10 Year Amp Maintenance

Includes the above amp maintenance and additional labor to replace power supply capacitors.

Breathe new life into your amp by replacing power supply capacitors. This will restore the strong, healthy hum-free punch your amp was born with. Get rid of the the mud now. Electrolytic capacitors are rated for 10 years of life. Failure of a single capacitor in your bias circuit can cause hundreds of dollars of damage. At risk are your output tubes, sockets, resistors, and audio and power transformers.

20 Year Amp Maintenance

Includes the above 10 year amp maintenance, plus the labor to replace the remaining electrolytic capacitors, which are in the audio circuit.

Due to the fact that these capacitors are under less stress, they generally outlive their rated lifespan of 10 years. Although we recommend replacing these caps no later than the 20 year mark, most players choose to perform this work during the ten year service for sonic and safety concerns.Since these caps are in the audio circuit, unlike the power supply caps, you can expect a difference in the tonality of the amp. Specifically, the amp will sound like it did when it was new. In general terms, capacitors will drift from their rated value until they are outside the stated tolerance or fail. When they fail it is usually due to leaking of the electrolyte in the case of power supply caps, or breakdown of the dielectric in the case of electrolytic caps in the audio circuit. Depending on where in the circuit the cap is, the effect on the way an amp sounds can be varied.
Some probable symptoms of an off-specification cap would be:
muddy sound - lacking strong clear bass, muffled or lifeless response;
reduced dynamic range - lacking the ability to repeatedly give percussive passages without "squashing down" or "loosing it", the second shot is not as loud as the first;
early distortion - an amp may otherwise sound fine but become dirtier at lower volumes and or settings;
bad distortion - awful, broken sounding, non-musical distortion that gets worse as you turn it up;
no sustain - cutting out can also be caused by improper bias adjustment;
too much bass - swimming obnoxious low tones that cant be dialed out;
tinny sound - an uncharacteristic brightness pervades, while a loss of volume may be noticed.
loss of volume - caps have a lot to do with apparent and actual loudness.