Ever seen these resistor values in a TS9?

[darbycrash]

Forgive me if this is the wrong section to post this in:

Poking around in a TS9 that, to my ears, sounds really good - I found that the 2 resistors that are often changed in these did not match the usual suspects' values. Unless these older resistors are coded differently, I'm getting 8G ohms for the grey-black-grey-gold (or is that white!?) and 80k for the grey-black-orange-gold (again, I guess that could be white but faded but they look grey to me). Has anyone ever seen these particular values in a TS9 before? What would be the benefit from a technical standpoint of using the values, if any? Thanks and again, sorry if this is not in the right forum section.

[PRR]

8Gig makes no sense. For the application, or for 13-cent resistors. Use a better light.

[Clint Eastwood]

These resistors look to me like very old ones, from the fifties. So not original ones I suspect. Maybe the colors faded? did you try measuring the resistance?

[idy]

Better light, a meter could tell you something.... what part of the circuit are they?
There was a fetish to put carbon comp resistors in certain places. These look like larger wattage than their neighbors, not necessarily antiques, again a fetish.

[darbycrash]

Better light, a meter could tell you something.... what part of the circuit are they?

These resistors look to me like very old ones, from the fifties. So not original ones...

Sorry I was not more specific guys! By "usual suspects" in my OP I was referring to the 2 resistors that usually get changed in TS9's to convert them to 808 spec. I believe they are the output resistors, R15 and R13. From what I understand the proper values for the 808 mod would be R15 to 100 ohms and R13 to 10k. I have not had a chance to pop them out and measure them quite yet - was just curious if anyone here had ever seen this before! I will definitely report back when I get a chance to do so. Thanks everyone! 

[idy]

If those are the output Rs you do not need to remove them to measure them.

[Elektrojänis]

It would make a lot of sense if the brown color on those was just bad and faded a lot. Brown color could have a lot of red pigment (brown is actually just dark and dull orange or red)... And that would lead us to suspect that yellow might be faded orange. There... brown-black-brown and brown-black-orange. Well... Measure and you will know a lot more.

[Clint Eastwood]

It would make a lot of sense if the brown color on those was just bad and faded a lot. Brown color could have a lot of red pigment (brown is actually just dark and dull orange or red)... And that would lead us to suspect that yellow might be faded orange. There... brown-black-brown and brown-black-orange. Well... Measure and you will know a lot more.

I support that hypothesis

[darbycrash]

It would make a lot of sense if the brown color on those was just bad and faded a lot. Brown color could have a lot of red pigment (brown is actually just dark and dull orange or red)... And that would lead us to suspect that yellow might be faded orange. There... brown-black-brown and brown-black-orange. Well... Measure and you will know a lot more.

Thanx! That makes a lot of sense. Also - I should have known better to consult the oracle without just measuring the damn things....sorry folx 

[Elektrojänis]

Thanx! That makes a lot of sense. Also - I should have known better to consult the oracle without just measuring the damn things....sorry folx 

Interesting puzzle anyways. Remember to report back when you measure.

If those are the the series and shunt resistors on the output, I doubt they will make much audible difference to the sound. I'd guess small variations caused by component tolerances in the clipping and tone control stage would make a lot more audible difference. This is only a quess though. I have never built a full tube screamer, and it has been a while since I built the minimal version.