Egnater Footswitch Mod...

If your Egnater Footswitch has come with a hard wired cable...it will eventually crap out. Why they had to use 2 stereo jacks to plug it into the amp I will never know....when a easily bought everywhere midi cable would have worked so much better. I have posted this mod on the Egnater Forum but thought I'd post it hear as-well....

Mine broke in the cable near the footswitch so I had to mod it with a new detachable cable and a breakout box made from a Jacky D tin for coolness.

Anywho....if you go to my Photobucket page I've put up 25 photos that will clearly show how I've done it. The things you are going to need is 2x Chassis Socket, Din, 5p 180....that's a
female midi socket you can find off eBay. I used ones with a screw down locking ring but that was overkill....clearly. Midi cable of any length you think you'll use, a cheap 1 meter TRS cable to cut in half and use for the breakout box and a cool tin for the said breakout box.

It's another simple mod that shouldn't take too long....once done you'll never need to do it again....

Hope this is of use....k.j.

9v Power Trip....

I always hated using 9volt batteries in my pedals....they were a pain changing them and it gets real expensive when you forget to un-plug a string of pedals. I first used a Dunlop Brick, I remember having a couple of them, they had a habit of stopping working.

I was then given a Diago Power Station 9v daisy chain power supply. I still have it and it goes to gigs with me as a back up.

I have also made up some quick plug-in 9v and 18v battery snaps for emergencies.

I carry a couple of these to every gig....plug and play

But over the years have ended up with a lot of pedals that run better on 18v "OCD-Amp Eleven-Heartbreaker".

I then got myself a T-Rex Fuel Tank Chameleon that rather annoyingly has been less than reliable, the power LED has died twice, went from a cool green colour to a same as everything else blue and then it really died and had to be repaired. "lucky it came with a 3 year warranty".

collectors item in 50 years....rofl 

For the last couple of years I've had a Voodoo Pedal Power 2 Plus that has powered all my pedals very happily with no problems.

5 year warranty with the Voodoo

The Power 2 Plus has a Auxiliary AC outlet that I have used to run both my Valvulator and my TC G-System through with no problems.

Pete Cornish thinks these are the Dogs Bollocks

I make up my own power lines for pedals that need 18volts and this is how you make them....

to use a 18v cable your power supply outputs needs to be "Isolated"

The cables are easy to make up yourself....hope this is of use....k.j.

Egnater Replacment Fan Mod....

This is a re post from the Egnater Forum

Anyone know where I can get a better than OEM replacement fan? I'm on fan number 2 and now it's making noises less than a year later - I use the amp mostly at home...go figure.

Thanks - Chris

 Hi Chris, a few things you can do. You can replace the fan with any PC Case Fan, Nexus are very good but the Akasa LED Case fans are as good as you need. You will need to take the white plastic connecter off the Egnater fan, its quite easy. You don't need the Yellow/White wire on the new fan. You'll need to solder the Egnater connecter onto your new fan and your good to go. A few other things you can do....I have put a Zalman FanMate on my fan, this lets you turn down the power of the fan to stop it being so loud. It also reduces air flow, so I placed four rubber feet on the front Egnater grill under the screws this will give you a small gap between the amp chassis and the grill, and you can feel cool air being sucked through this gap. It's then just a mater of reducing the power of the fan till you stop hearing it. The fan on Renegade amps is very important, YOU DO NEED IT. A new fan, a FanMate and the gap has stopped the fan noise being noticeable when playing quiet at home but has also reduced the temperature build up in the amp, which is good, then when I'm playing a gig I just turn the Zalman fanMate up full, Easy.

 Hope this helps....k.j.

Phil X and the Drills - Live in Manchester 28-2-2013....

 Dan. Randy and Mr Hollywood Phil X ROCKED Manchester's Academy 3....

and they were F**KING Awesome....

Dan, Randy and Phil X....

and Becky Birchall....was Awesome Too....

 DieByTheDrop put a comment on Youtube....
"She's my friend. We went to the Liverpool show last week and got talking to Phil X after the gig and she said she plays drums and we said she is really good, so Phil said ok do you want to play a song in manchester next week, and we told him we were poor students (lol) and he said he would put us on the guest list and she could play communication breakdown with them... btw, it was the first time she had played the song :p"....how cool is that....

also on the bill....StormBorn....first on, but with venom.....

followed by Black Balled....Massive Thunderous Rock....

tonight ended with Dorje...

I was really looking forward to seeing Rob Chapman and his band....sorry we didn't stick around....we have a poorly dog....she has had to have one of her toes removed....

and she has started chewing it....this it how it looked about a week ago....she can get out of a normal collar bucket.....

so she has to wear this....and she f**kin hates this thing....so we wanted to get back and see if the dog sitter had coped....

so we'll have to see you next time....sorry Dorje, I did buy your CD....

I had even taken my Bad Monkey to see if I could get Phil X to sign it....how sad was that....

Thank You....we all had a grand time....t'rah....

P.S.  The Cheese Puff Death Squad on YouTube has posted the full Show....so here it is....

Cheese Puff Death Squad are a groovy beat combo from La-la Land (which is fairly close to Manchester, England).
We are WYSIWYG rock! No airs. No graces. Just balls out Rock 'n' Roll!

and just because it's my ringtone....