- Feb 16, 2008
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- John K Custom Basses
Since my band plays music from the 60's, I wanted a powerful, yet somewhat portable bass amp that I could take with me to gigs that had the look of a late 60's Vox, but with the use of modern features and technology. So, I took an old empty Vox Buckingham head box that I've had for years and installed a Gallien Krueger RB1001RB-II in it.
For the cabinet, I purchased a Vox V212BN cab with the trolley from Northcoast Music. The cab comes as an open back and brown grill cloth, so i made a new sealed back for it as well as a new speaker baffle board and regrilled it with black Vox grill cloth. I cut two 3" ports (with 4" long tubes) in the baffle and made them so that they allow me the option of having a ported cab or capping off the ports to make it completely sealed.
For the speakers, I installed two new Eminence 2512 Neo's that handle 250 watts each, so the cab can handle 500 watts. Since I didn't want to use a horn and x-over, to give the speakers just a little more high end, I cut off the paper dust caps and installed a couple of aluminum JBL domes.
Although this rig is pretty small (and the cab is now very light), it is super loud, full sounding and can easily handle all but the largest of rooms that we play in without PA support.... i think that it looks pretty cool to have an amp that "appears" to be from the era of the music that we play, but far surpasses the original in both tone and output and i couldn't be happier with the way that it turned out.
Front view:
Rear view:
top view:
Top view showing the velco attached "knob guard" to protect the knobs from breaking while in transit:
with its covers:
For the cabinet, I purchased a Vox V212BN cab with the trolley from Northcoast Music. The cab comes as an open back and brown grill cloth, so i made a new sealed back for it as well as a new speaker baffle board and regrilled it with black Vox grill cloth. I cut two 3" ports (with 4" long tubes) in the baffle and made them so that they allow me the option of having a ported cab or capping off the ports to make it completely sealed.
For the speakers, I installed two new Eminence 2512 Neo's that handle 250 watts each, so the cab can handle 500 watts. Since I didn't want to use a horn and x-over, to give the speakers just a little more high end, I cut off the paper dust caps and installed a couple of aluminum JBL domes.
Although this rig is pretty small (and the cab is now very light), it is super loud, full sounding and can easily handle all but the largest of rooms that we play in without PA support.... i think that it looks pretty cool to have an amp that "appears" to be from the era of the music that we play, but far surpasses the original in both tone and output and i couldn't be happier with the way that it turned out.
Front view:
Rear view:
top view:
Top view showing the velco attached "knob guard" to protect the knobs from breaking while in transit:
with its covers:
