vintage FET comressor 1176LN ser 4013




                                                              Q14 left to yellow wires

                                                

I bought this unit 10 years ago from Pete Townshend from the Who he was selling a pair with following serial but i only could aford 1 .

I had a rev D for a while so I knew how that sounded and the F was never thesame to me 

but after some digging I found out there was a NPN transistor Q 14 replaced with same type but not the required hfe of 250+ it only had 152 hfe this is a part of the darlington trap so not ok , luckely my local electronic shop had 12 of these in stock so (GOTRON) thank you for keeping these for me in stock.

i selected an new one witch hfe of 350 and replaced it , so now this baby is back kicking and sounds very good  to me and it's very ok for recording voices the rev F

FET compressor