Past Projects
Some projects have chassis and cabinets that are readily available. Others, one needs to map the chassis out, have it sent to a metal fab shop, or to buy a blank chassis and cut the holes to make the project work. Same with the cabinets. Sometimes you have to make them, and cover them, other times there is something that will work out just fine available. No two amplifiers come together the same way, just like no two musicians sound the same. We don't want to make many amplifiers, but we do want them to be purposeful, and we'll build them to last.
Stand Alone Reverb
________________________ This amp started out life as Lonnie Knight's old Evil Twin Reverb. About 5 years ago he dropped the twisted up chassis off with me to have at it as I saw fit. The circuit I made it into is largely a Black Face Bassman; but only the bass channel with the "Deep" switch. The original bassman called for two 6L6 power tubes. To best utilize the output transformer I have used 4 power tubes. In the famous Green Tweed from the Axeman.
________________________ This one started out as a Leslie Power amp with SS Rectification. Added a novel socket, added a gain stage, and handwired it all from sockets to jacks, using tag strips where needed; not true point to point. In the end, the guitar player had a combo cabinet available for use, and he did his own custom faceplate. It's a born rocker, and quite loud! It has a little later breakup due to the SS rectification, and one monster 12" speaker in there.
________________________ I call this an AC15 on steroids. Heavily inspired by Nik at Ceriatone. I sometimes think of it as a Mini Bad-Cat/Matchless amp. One channel with an EF86 preamp tube in V1 - pull out master volume, cut control and a 6 position tone knob gets you where you need to be - right about 18-20 watts of "quasi Class A" power.
________________________ This amp started out life as Lonnie Knight's old Evil Twin Reverb. About 5 years ago he dropped the twisted up chassis off with me to have at it as I saw fit. The circuit I made it into is largely a Black Face Bassman; but only the bass channel with the "Deep" switch. The original bassman called for two 6L6 power tubes. To best utilize the output transformer I have used 4 power tubes. In the famous Green Tweed from the Axeman.