Leña_Costoso
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Hey not a newbie, but since I've been gone for quite a few years, now back, I thought I've share.
Basically... I found myself amp-less, since I was playing my Ovation Adamas exclusively.
Well, without the long story, I'm back into playing electrics, so had to decide on an amp.
After much consideration, I'm building up a modified tweed-type "Super". I've done this circuit before in a Bassman style and Super style cabinet, it works well. My modifications are to the input and the recovery stage before the cathodyne phase inverter, and thats all I'm sayin about it!
No pictures yet, but, the cabinet will be a MojoTone, done up in basic black tolex and aged grill. It'll have tilt back legs. Speakers are sitting here at my elbow and they're a pair of G10 Vintage Celestions. Eventually, there will be an "extension cabinet" of the same size, cut for a the Fender type reverb unit, also 2x10. I may get two greenback 10's and mix them in each cabinet, dunno yet. They say (who are "they" anyway?), that the Super is a 28 watt amp. I disagree. Someplace in my mind, I seem to recall that the 4x10 I made up measured at 43watts, since it used Bassman type transformers. The Super will be using the same, and the slightly juiced recovery stage will drive the phase inverter to about the same voltage swing as a long tail pair - hence the same power.
Still have a good three to four weeks of wait for the cabinets to arrive. Pictures to follow (of course!)
Basically... I found myself amp-less, since I was playing my Ovation Adamas exclusively.
Well, without the long story, I'm back into playing electrics, so had to decide on an amp.
After much consideration, I'm building up a modified tweed-type "Super". I've done this circuit before in a Bassman style and Super style cabinet, it works well. My modifications are to the input and the recovery stage before the cathodyne phase inverter, and thats all I'm sayin about it!
No pictures yet, but, the cabinet will be a MojoTone, done up in basic black tolex and aged grill. It'll have tilt back legs. Speakers are sitting here at my elbow and they're a pair of G10 Vintage Celestions. Eventually, there will be an "extension cabinet" of the same size, cut for a the Fender type reverb unit, also 2x10. I may get two greenback 10's and mix them in each cabinet, dunno yet. They say (who are "they" anyway?), that the Super is a 28 watt amp. I disagree. Someplace in my mind, I seem to recall that the 4x10 I made up measured at 43watts, since it used Bassman type transformers. The Super will be using the same, and the slightly juiced recovery stage will drive the phase inverter to about the same voltage swing as a long tail pair - hence the same power.
Still have a good three to four weeks of wait for the cabinets to arrive. Pictures to follow (of course!)
