Lunch today will be country-fried steak with sawmill gravy and corn, and probably an apple with peanut butter to wrap things up. Nothing fancy, but it'll get the job done!
Today's questions:
Are there any amp builders/DIY folks here? If so, what have you built?
Or do you own an amp that is unique, rare, vintage, etc?
If you could own one vintage amp you don't have, what would it be?
I have a single-ended amplifier that someone built for me a few years ago. It was originally built with a plexi-style preamp, with the builder tweaking some components to his specs. It never quite sounded as much like a plexi as I wanted, so over the years I tweaked the preamp a bit here and there, always getting a little closer. Then last fall I got this wild hair to try to get the thing to sound like a Fender Blackface.
I really didn’t know what I was doing, but did a lot of research and reading and got a lot of help from a DIY amp forum. I am very pleased with how things turned out…I think it captures that black face vibe (and a guitarist friend of mine agrees) and it’s a surprisingly clean amp, though will start breaking up when cranked. It will take 6L6, EL34, 6V6 or 6550/KT88 tubes…since I want the amp as clean as possible, I need all the output I can get, so I’m using a 6550. It’s a great platform for pedals, which is mostly how I use it. It's actually encouraged me to play clean more often...which my wife probably appreciates in contrast to my 80's hard rock leanings!
I built a 1x12 combo cab for it and put a Weber 12F150 speaker in it…here are a few pics.
And here's a clip of the amp playing clean with my Legacy: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_so ... ID=8701163
G&L Content: Which G&L make do you think is the most popular...ASAT Classic, ASAT Special, ASAT-Z3, ASAT Deluxe, Legacy, Commanche, Invader, Rampage, S500, SC-2?
