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03-06-2012, 08:20 PM
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Line Lead, Technician for Ampeg/Loud Technologies | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Lynnwood, WA | | | Building an Ampeg Heritage
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03-06-2012, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by will33  Shutup and listen with your eyes.:D | |
03-06-2012, 10:08 PM
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Line Lead, Technician for Ampeg/Loud Technologies | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Lynnwood, WA | | | Ah, thanks! |
03-07-2012, 12:25 AM
| | | | Wow, I didnt know they were built here in Washington. |
03-07-2012, 02:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Portland, OR | | Hodgy might be what makes Washington cool? I live a mile from the border, therefor I can gripe about the state... Welcome, Hodgy! 
EDIT: The video really makes you look like you'd just be more comfortable building amps... Which I have to say, is not a bad thing.
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03-07-2012, 09:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: montreal canada | | | no word on the assembling of the boards.
must be magik!
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03-08-2012, 08:58 AM
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Line Lead, Technician for Ampeg/Loud Technologies | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Lynnwood, WA | | | We buy the PCBs. We haven't had a wave solder machine and a PCB assembly line since wayyyy before my time here. |
03-08-2012, 10:18 AM
| | | | Still want to see video's of the overseas operations.
They "hand wire" too
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03-08-2012, 10:37 AM
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03-08-2012, 01:30 PM
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03-08-2012, 02:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Toronto Ontario Canada | | | Forgive my curiosity hodgy and meaning no disrespect, is building the amp just a matter of plugging the various sub assemblies together??
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03-08-2012, 02:57 PM
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03-08-2012, 03:21 PM
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I know pointing out a typo is a jerk move, but this one is pretty good.
Check out the tech specs on the Heritage SVT-CL from Bass Player from May 2010 (last page of review).
312 db @ 40 Hz?  |
03-08-2012, 11:44 PM
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Line Lead, Technician for Ampeg/Loud Technologies | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Lynnwood, WA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BassmanPaul Forgive my curiosity hodgy and meaning no disrespect, is building the amp just a matter of plugging the various sub assemblies together?? | Well, yeah, that's the short version. An eloquent quote from Ryan, one of our media guys:
"The difference between made in the USA and assembled in the USA is a complicated legal matter. In this case the wood itself constituted such a major portion of the overall material (wood which is imported), that we could not outright say made in the USA. However, EVERYTHING that can be done to make these rigs is done here, in house, by Hodgy and his team. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to explain!"
I can't really speak to what goes on overseas, I've fixed a whole bunch of returned CLs and VRs, mostly from Vietnam and Korea and I DO know that the vast majority of root cause failures are not 'shoddy workmanship' or 'poor testing conditions'. |
03-08-2012, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by theinada I know pointing out a typo is a jerk move, but this one is pretty good.
Check out the tech specs on the Heritage SVT-CL from Bass Player from May 2010 (last page of review).
312 db @ 40 Hz? | Sick! |
03-09-2012, 01:20 AM
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Originally Posted by hodgy Well, yeah, that's the short version. An eloquent quote from Ryan, one of our media guys: | Posts like this are why this site is cool. Even if this guy is a rare gem at ampeg, it's still a plus.
Lets try to remember the last time we got to speak directly to the one and only guy that builds processors for Microsoft. And it's not just this one dude from Ampeg. greenboy? That guy from QSC that posts all the time? Larry Hartke? How about Genz Benz?
Ladies and gentleman, you are currently in a place where you can speak directly to (if you ask the right question) the designers and builders of arguably the world's best basses, bass amps, preamps, cabs... You can't beat this, if you are interested in the details of what happens between your hands and the ears of your audience.
There is some recognition deserved here.
Ok, my rant is over.
Return thread to OP 
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03-09-2012, 01:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Vancouver | | | Props Hodgy! I'd be super-excited about work if I had your job! Any word on perhaps a Heritage SVT-VR coming down the pipe? |
03-09-2012, 08:49 AM
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Line Lead, Technician for Ampeg/Loud Technologies | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Lynnwood, WA | | | I would personally LOVE to build a Heritage VR. There has been talk, but for right now it's just talk.
I'm happy to share whatever I can with everybody. I try to stick to the facts- anything I say that is subjective is wholly unendorsable by the Ampeg brand.
Fun fact: I use a crappy Austin P-bass copy to play test 99% of the heads and cabs that I build. |
03-09-2012, 10:04 AM
| | | | What do you do with tubes or speakers that don't past your testing?
Are they returned to the manufacturer?
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03-09-2012, 10:22 AM
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