Amp Guts Photos - Official Thread - Lets see those pics

[Jeff Scott]

Hmm, I would have expected something a bit more booteeky/lavish than that from Glockenklang.

 

[60bass]

Recently picked up this 2001 Fender Bassman 400. Here it is in all it's inside naked glory. The layout is pretty clean and looks like it's fairly easy to service. With the exception of the chassis cooling fan mounted inside the metal box where the output transistors are mounted. Might be a bit of a job to remove that cover.

Used my LG G2 to snap these pics so they are kinda meh.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Looks well thought out and put together. Sure has a lot of components.

 

[pravus]

I recently noticed that one of my Aguilar AG500s had a bad LED when pushing the operate/mute button. I'm still learning soldering and other skills so I thought it would be a good repair project. I also thought I'd share some photos of the work while everything was opened up. Very tidy and nice looking to me.

 

[abarson]

Well, I was vacuming the bedroom/practice room, and then this happened.

Yes, I decided to vacuum out my TubeWorks RT-3100 combo! Surprisingly, there was very little to clean up.

 

[disssa]

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[BasturdBlaster]

I like this thread. It convinced me to buy the Hartke LH1000 over the LH500 when I saw there was twice the hardware for only 100 bux more, hehehe.

 

[Jamarvic]

Just found out about this thread...
Here's my 1995 Eden Highwayman

 

[Mr. Foxen]

Prototype model I had made in China, not sure why they squirted melt glue about in there, looks well dodge, doesn't secure the components. Clipped a couple of diodes they did wrong too.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

Here are some shots of my 1999 Eden WT500/800 signature model Highwayman amp. It was the test bench amp David Nordschow used for designing cabinets. He upgraded it from 500 watts bridged up to 800 watts bridged. It's signed as "David Nordschow" as opposed to "David Eden" which was how he used to autograph amps for folks. Also noted the 800 watt upgrade and initialed it.

Here's a shot of the guts of the beast while it was still on David Nordschow's test bench. The toroidal transformer is larger than the one used on the "normal" WT500 and the power supply board has 6 large capacitors instead of the normal 4. The two power boards with heat sinks located on each end of the amp were the same ones used on the WT500, WT600, and WT800 at the time. Power boards were the same but the power supply was different for each. Mine has the same power supply as the WT800:

Here's the serial number section. Notice he overwrote the 500 with 800 for the watts:

Here's the bottom plate with signature and upgrade notation:

Thanks for looking!
Dan

 

[Jamarvic]

Here are some shots of my 1999 Eden WT500/800 signature model Highwayman amp. It was the test bench amp David Nordschow used for designing cabinets. He upgraded it from 500 watts bridged up to 800 watts bridged. It's signed as "David Nordschow" as opposed to "David Eden" which was how he used to autograph amps for folks. Also noted the 800 watt upgrade and initialed it.

Here's a shot of the guts of the beast while it was still on David Nordschow's test bench. The toroidal transformer is larger than the one used on the "normal" WT500 and the power supply board has 6 large capacitors instead of the normal 4. The two power boards with heat sinks located on each end of the amp were the same ones used on the WT500, WT600, and WT800 at the time. Power boards were the same but the power supply was different for each. Mine has the same power supply as the WT800:

Here's the serial number section. Notice he overwrote the 500 with 800 for the watts:

Here's the bottom plate with signature and upgrade notation:

Thanks for looking!
Dan

Very nice!

 

[rufus.K]

Here's 3 Shota from an Aguilar Ag500dc

 

[nikifena]

A gutshot ot Eva studio tube mic preamp from N-audio

 

[Mr. Foxen]

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[disssa]

Ampeg B-15T

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[Crowd crusher]

Here's the guts

of my "rst custom effects" tube pre Scott built for me. It's loosely based on the preamp of a matamp/green with the tonestack before the gain stage.

 

[disssa]

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[DRafalske]

Here's my Trinity Trip Top.
I know there are prettier builds here; but I built this myself and I'm happy with it.

 

[disssa]

Markbass Little Mark Ninja

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[FloridaSam]

I opened my new to me 1997 Eden WT 300 last night for a cleaning. Not only is it beautiful but was damn near pristine inside.