Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: juansolo on November 05, 2012, 10:35:56 PM
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Now done. Details here: http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/ampage.html
Martin has done a cracking job of the cab. Blonde and Oxblood won in the end. I decided to go with a separate head and cab to isolate it. Cab will happen later.
(http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/images/amp5t.jpg) (http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/images/amp5.jpg)
(http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/images/amp4t.jpg) (http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/images/amp4.jpg)
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That looks fantastic! Are you happy with the end result or is there any tweaking to be done? Very impressive looking amp in any case. 8)
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Chuffed with it. The only tweaking done was a little re-biasing to run 6L6s. Not going to do anything else.
I was umming and ahhing about dropping a reverb in there (a pedal based one) but in the end, it's easier just to plug a pedal in (in this it'd require an additional PSU adding to run it). If I was making one from scratch I'd probably drop one in anyhow as the one we use does a spookily good impression of a spring.
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Looks lovely mate! What a tidy looking head! Great colour combo too. Congrats!
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nice, saw the pics Martin posted in FB
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Very nice! In the words of the TOWIE crew, I am Well Jel.
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It looks gorgeous. Now we just need some sound clips :D
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Hope it sounds as good as it looks!
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Chuffed with it. The only tweaking done was a little re-biasing to run 6L6s. Not going to do anything else.
I was umming and ahhing about dropping a reverb in there (a pedal based one) but in the end, it's easier just to plug a pedal in (in this it'd require an additional PSU adding to run it). If I was making one from scratch I'd probably drop one in anyhow as the one we use does a spookily good impression of a spring.
Do you use the Belton brick?
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New much smaller brick yes. It's a very simple circuit which is based on the recommended schematics from Belton/Accutronics. Single knob. Does what it should simply and well.
Got one left for sale. Martin snagged the other.
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Looks great John. Long spring reverb or short (or both)?
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He got the other single short one (we made two of them).
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very nice indeed :)
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New much smaller brick yes. It's a very simple circuit which is based on the recommended schematics from Belton/Accutronics. Single knob. Does what it should simply and well.
Got one left for sale. Martin snagged the other.
I've not seen the smaller bricks, where did you get yours from?
I bought one of the larger bricks, but haven't got around to using it yet.
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I had a pedal with the older brick that developed a very strange (intermittent) sample-and-repeat problem that would only be fixed by killing the power to it, but I thought it sounded pretty good-- have been wanting to build a pedal with the new one.
Love those ampmaker bits-- have wanted a couple of their transformers for a while!
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New much smaller brick yes. It's a very simple circuit which is based on the recommended schematics from Belton/Accutronics. Single knob. Does what it should simply and well.
Got one left for sale. Martin snagged the other.
I've not seen the smaller bricks, where did you get yours from?
I bought one of the larger bricks, but haven't got around to using it yet.
You can get them from a few places such as Banzai Music & musikding.
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looks good.
as for reverb - i keep getting tempted to build a proper spring reverb unit. came across these kits the other day that have me tempted
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170855461731?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
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New much smaller brick yes. It's a very simple circuit which is based on the recommended schematics from Belton/Accutronics. Single knob. Does what it should simply and well.
Got one left for sale. Martin snagged the other.
I've not seen the smaller bricks, where did you get yours from?
I bought one of the larger bricks, but haven't got around to using it yet.
(http://www.juansolo.demon.co.uk/misc/brickage.JPG)
Das Musikding sell them but I suspect they don't carry them as stock as they take forever to get here. I've gone in on a group buy that should see me snag a couple of shorts. Possibly easiest/cheapest to get them direct from Accutronics. There's a gut-shot of mine on my site.
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I had a pedal with the older brick that developed a very strange (intermittent) sample-and-repeat problem that would only be fixed by killing the power to it, but I thought it sounded pretty good-- have been wanting to build a pedal with the new one.
Love those ampmaker bits-- have wanted a couple of their transformers for a while!
I've got an old big block BYOC and this is a much nicer sounding effect. It doesn't have some of the features of the BYOC and I don't think it needs them at all if all you want is a spring reverb effect.
Neither do anything particularly odd.
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I have a Lee Jackson Mr Springy that uses what I guess is the larger brick - simple with just 1 knob - needs to be on a power supply not battery though - kills batteries too quickly
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I love this colour combo. Nice little cracking head.
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I have a Lee Jackson Mr Springy that uses what I guess is the larger brick - simple with just 1 knob - needs to be on a power supply not battery though - kills batteries too quickly
Yeah, they still eat batteries. No point in fitting them really.
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looks good.
as for reverb - i keep getting tempted to build a proper spring reverb unit. came across these kits the other day that have me tempted
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170855461731?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Hoffman do (did anyway) a proper kit for the old 3-knob Fender reverb with a 6K6 driver valve (can easy sub in a 6V6). Weber probably do one too - either of those is the way I'd go personally.
An Epi Valve Junior would make a great basis for an outboard valve spring reverb unit btw.
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i know, looked at all the kits out there but they get pricey quickly, that one doesnt look great but it is at least priced reasonably and i am sure i can do neater than the pics
but the bitmo kit and epi junior head was another option