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Old March 10th, 2008, 06:57 PM   #416 (permalink)
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Yeah, that's the weirdest thing. It's a 1.5k resistor, that was installed by the factory. I haven't read where anyone else's GA5 has this. The only thing I can figure is that it was a mod they did, possibly due to instability caused by that high pass filter they're installing on these. Maybe some individual amps gave them trouble, and they installed this mod if needed. But I really don't know.

I removed the resistor, and the amp is louder (as expected) and a bit brighter, but still stable.
Mine has that 1.5k resistor on pin 7 too. I was surprised to see it there. It's not on the schematic that Gibson sent me.

So I can try it without it?
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