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Finally wrapped up the Peavey Tube Conversion
I’ll do a longer write up soon but for now I’ll say it turned out to be a sort of Fender 5F11 Vibrolux/5E3 Deluxe sort of thing. In the mean time here are a bunch of pics:
View ArticleThe Sunstone (previously know as the Peavey conversion)
I did a longer write-up including schematic, of my solid state Peavey to 5F11 Vibrolux derivative here.
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A couple more Nervosa tweaks
Some discussion came up on wattkins.com about tweed bassmans and that sort of pushed, overdriven sound some players get with them. I had built this bassman sort of amp and decided to see if I could get...
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After years under my bench….the X100B emerges
I’m finally getting around to converting my old Carvin X100B to a Marshall. Back in my younger days I played this Carvin amp in clubs around the San Francisco bay area. This was before I got really...
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My parallel/cascaded triodes preamp switch
My Carvin x100b to Marshall build is coming along but in the mean time I thoughts I’d do a post about the parallel triodes to cascaded triodes switch I’m putting in it. I’m using a full size switch,...
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Prairie Dawg Boost Mod
This is a little info about the boost switch I added to my Prairie Dawg amp. The amp is basically a single channel Fender blackface with SRPP driven reverb. With this amp I wanted to get a blackface...
View ArticleMy Carvin to Plexi conversion is done
I finished this one up, called it the Narcotic, and here is the write up.
View ArticleNarcotic Demo Video
Just did this using a Tascam DR-05, not my usual setup. It was much quicker to do and hopefully the quality is OK. The video mostly demos the parallel/cascade switch. The full amp write up is here.
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Sunstone NFB and Presence Mod for a 5E3
I was recently tweaking my Sunstone amp because it wasn’t quite doing it for me. I had the classic mod with a three position switch on the second triode. This is where you either have the cathode...
View ArticleSelmer anyone?
I recently did some tweaking to one of the very first amps I built using a Valve Junior chassis and cab. This time it’s a little 18 watt Selmer Treble and Bass amp build. Check it out here.
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