Let's see your AMP!

[JereFuzz]

Just stumbled upon an obscure Eurotrash 6x12 from the 70'ies. Spanish made Music-Son weird ass cab. It's got 3 guitar speakers and 3 bass speakers, originally voiced for organ and bass. Sounds very dark and midrangey-doomey with the SC amp. The bottom section 2 x 12's is angled upwards so you have a monitor effect instead of sandblasting your ankles with fuzz. Tried to bridge the SoundCity and Peavey amp with a total of 12x12". Had to poop.

great rug!

[OldGeorge]

Why doesn't fender bring back the sunn brand? I'd love to get a sunn beta lead head ...

Beta leads aren't too bad to find in good working order but the Sunn stuff Fender made just wasn't the same... I played through their "model t" and a real one and they were 2 totally different beasts. The fender one was a good amp but just didn't feel like the freight train original ones did.

[BetterOffShred]

I have the schematics for both, and it's funny really. The original Model T's were basically silverface Bassman circuits with some changed values, then the fender Model T is really gross. All kinds of weird shit in there that fucks it all up. I personally feel the magic of the original Model T is that you can jumper the channels and have enough iron to run 4 big bottles at defecation inducing levels. It's a pretty basic formula, and yeah it sounds like a freight train. That YouTube video of the hovercraft T is pretty amazing imo

[MechaGodzilla]

The original Model T's were basically silverface Bassman circuits with some changed values

I said this to someone the other day and got shot down and I'm not smart enough about amps to argue back

[systemofameow]

The original Model T's were basically silverface Bassman circuits with some changed values

I said this to someone the other day and got shot down and I'm not smart enough about amps to argue back

[BetterOffShred]

Nah man it totally is the same topology. They just strapped it to 4x6550's. It has a presence knob there off the NFB but really it's the same all the way through the PI. I really love these designs as they produce really elegant cleans and then you get all kinds of great natural compression and huge overdrive if you can stand to turn it up.

[OldGeorge]

That's the reason I love my 69 sceptre. 2xKT88's in a suuuuper simple circuit that has just tone and volume. She just sounds real with a master choking her before she really shines. Squishy and huge and more bang than 60watts should ever have. Nothing compares to an old Sunn (to me at least). Non master GT120/OR120s are close, but give me a different kind of boner.

[BetterOffShred]

88's are dope. I prefer 6550s but they are all good. The 'kinkless' is pretty neat in theory. You can squeeze a shitload of wattage out of those 88's. At this point in my life.. and I'm serious.. I'm going to make a 2x6v6 model T. 18 watts of Doom. Yes please

[OldGeorge]

That sounds like the best bedroom ever dreamt... I want one now

[ibarakishi]

second this ^ sounds like a great idea. Please tell me you are serious about doing this haha. It would be great for recording as well i think. If you sold them i think they would be really popular as long as the price point was okay. I have always dreamed of something like this in a metal head case similar to the terror series. If this existed and also had a switch for 120-240 V power, i would be in heaven.

[BetterOffShred]

Oh I'm serious. I have the schematic for it drawn up already, and a turret layout drawn. I have a couple other projects I have to finish first and then It's happening. I got the iron spec'd for it, I even have a chassis already. It's basically the power section from a 5G9 Tremolux with the Power tube bias Trem, and then a 3 input (norm, bright, both) Model T pre and NFB section with presence pot and a "Raw" pot which allows you to change the NFB value for a more wide open and. .well raw.. sound. The Phase Inverter section is basically the same so I'll probably use the Model T values. It won't be quite the same because 6V6's have different sonic characteristics when you push them vs the bigger bottles, but it'll be the same ballpark and it should sound huge.

As for selling stuff, it's never been my aim to sell anything I make for music purposes. I mean I could sell one or two or something if it works out nice, but I've never been into building stuff to sell. It gets gross and you have to deal with warranty and people doing dumb shit and I just don't want to go there. Besides, I only wire stuff up neat enough to not be noisy, trust me you don't even want to look in some of my pedals .. Like the Parallel Universe 2 (thanks Colin) .. it's no good in there.. but it sounds good and it works

[ibarakishi]

Great to hear! I will be excited to see you post it in the future i hope. Like i said, that would be a killer amp if you get it to work out right. I am sure it will be tons of fun to do and play

[Bon Hoga]

The JCM isn't mine.

[cherler]

I just picked up this G-100 a few days ago for super cheap. I really like it so far. I was looking for something quick to handle baritone better than the fender blues deluxe that's followed me since I first picked up guitar, and for the money I'm not sure I could have done much better.

[BetterOffShred]

I Love these smaller Ampeg combos man! What a great find!