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hasbeen
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- Sep 23, 2004
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Very cool....I like the looks a lot. I'm curious about it being machined from billet though as it looks cast.
If you abducted my entire family and all my friends and told me that you would blow them all up into a million pieces if I didn't build an amp, out of spare parts or even out of amp parts, and you gave me like forever to do it, still, that would be their as*es.
So, I am really impressed.
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So, I am really impressed.
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Um, I do agree though that it kind of looks a lot like how I imagine a d!rty b0mb. Don't try to fly with it, buddy!
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We use toroid xfmrs where I work, but for isolation. Does it get hot when you push it?
I like it.
I like it.
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allotabass
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It isn't cast, it's milled. The inside has been coated with carbon powder by a sprayer friend who also did the Durocoat outer finish. Zero feedback and zero hum.
It's been my basement practice amp since I made it (notice the dust on it). When I'm working on guitars I use it to check the instrument's electronics. It's small and because the feet are rubbery it won't slip. Saves me from lugging a heavier amp into the shop.
This is the first time anyone has seen it. I was told by some folks at my job that putting it into some sort of production would be costly and licensing it would cost a pretty penny.
It is cool really. Tone wise it's not my favorite but it does the trick. I've never gigged, traveled or recorded with it so sorry no sound files. It could use a better parametric EQ but for checking guitars here and there it's not bad.
Oh I forgot.....it did cost me under a buck for the jewel light I picked up at Radio Scrap.
It's been my basement practice amp since I made it (notice the dust on it). When I'm working on guitars I use it to check the instrument's electronics. It's small and because the feet are rubbery it won't slip. Saves me from lugging a heavier amp into the shop.
This is the first time anyone has seen it. I was told by some folks at my job that putting it into some sort of production would be costly and licensing it would cost a pretty penny.
It is cool really. Tone wise it's not my favorite but it does the trick. I've never gigged, traveled or recorded with it so sorry no sound files. It could use a better parametric EQ but for checking guitars here and there it's not bad.
Oh I forgot.....it did cost me under a buck for the jewel light I picked up at Radio Scrap.
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allotabass
Guest
Someone asked about a cab. Well here ya go.
Again nothing special in the tone department but I had to make another. The speaker is an EMINENCE LA6-MB 6.5". The speaker is on shocks and floats on a grilled panel. The holes drilled to get the "tooth" like opening took all day to do.
The coolest thing about this little cab is the top cover is tied in with cut-down Hyundai Sante Fe rear window actuators that can give a Leslie Rotating cab effect when the cover is opened and closed rapidly useing a Heinly Tiny Turbo motor. Or you can keep it in an open state to the desired tone your lookng for. Closed it sounds compressed and open sounds honky and airy. The actuators' broke when I moved into my new house and since then I can't get them to work right.
It's a novelty really. It never got passed the initial design stage.
The color scheme came from 1970 Plymouth Road Runner I saw once plus it matches my Custom Ampeg SVT rig I re-designed a few years back from a SVT350 head and a 1969 SVT 8X10 cut down to 4X10.
Again nothing special in the tone department but I had to make another. The speaker is an EMINENCE LA6-MB 6.5". The speaker is on shocks and floats on a grilled panel. The holes drilled to get the "tooth" like opening took all day to do.
The coolest thing about this little cab is the top cover is tied in with cut-down Hyundai Sante Fe rear window actuators that can give a Leslie Rotating cab effect when the cover is opened and closed rapidly useing a Heinly Tiny Turbo motor. Or you can keep it in an open state to the desired tone your lookng for. Closed it sounds compressed and open sounds honky and airy. The actuators' broke when I moved into my new house and since then I can't get them to work right.
It's a novelty really. It never got passed the initial design stage.
The color scheme came from 1970 Plymouth Road Runner I saw once plus it matches my Custom Ampeg SVT rig I re-designed a few years back from a SVT350 head and a 1969 SVT 8X10 cut down to 4X10.
So, I guess the Pentagon will be knocking at your door any time now asking for those parts back. BTW, it may have cost you $0.00 but with those military parts, it cost the rest of us here in the USA somewhere in the $100k range.
Craig
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allotabass
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So, I guess the Pentagon will be knocking at your door any time now asking for those parts back. BTW, it may have cost you $0.00 but with those military parts, it cost the rest of us here in the USA somewhere in the $100k range.
Craig
Relax.
