Quote Originally Posted by Will Muhovich
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Anyway, any hints or tips you'd care to share would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Here is a schematic of the modification I discussed above, it's similar to Deafelectromark's mod except I wanted to re-voice the preamp, replace the tone control with a mid-cut tone control and instead of cutting the traces to the volume pot I pulled it from the pcb (be careful if you aren't familiar with pulling components or you'll end up with a damaged pcb)

http://rh-tech.org/public/Crate_v5_Framing-Leah.jpeg

If you want to keep the stock tone control only remove R15, R27 and R7 (I just cut R7 out) from between the two stages. The volume control input (clockwise lug) connects to R15 where it connects to R29, the volume control wiper connects to R15/R27 junction, the volume control ground connects to the ground via on R27.