LARRY L

Hi phil, i had my fender deluxe reissue gutted out keeping only the lamp light and jacks, then hand wired for the reason to have better caps and resistors, etc, and replaceable pods. the tone, response, clarity, dynamic range, harmonics... was much better, using the better components also using all mercury iron.the stock boards are also too small to fit the larger resistors and caps with the small cheap pods just soldered on the smaller board. they did not even put in silver mica caps for the highs, about a dollar retail cost at radio shack. that tell me a lot about fender. i did a lot of modding on 2 drri's i had owned only to give up still not achieving the vintage tone and sparkle of a real dr. i was told for years the pc board makes no difference only to find out it is the sum of the whole,,,,, all the components need to be factored in.