Recent content by Dr Rico

I have a Sewell Texaplex and one of Doug's Wampus Cat amps. I love them! I have yet to meet such well thought out, gig-friendly, club amps. I mean, they both have only what is necessary for a great club sound, no extra doo-dads to clutter the signal chain, and are sized to allow one to get into...

Have any of you all built tube amps that were entirely contained within the chassis? You, know, like with card mounted sockets and that sorta thing? I don't have any chassis punches, but do have a drill press, so... I picked up some really nice PC mount ceramic sockets and some trannies off the...

Hi friends, long time no hassle. A new old amp crossed my bench last week. Its a 1960 Fender Vibrolux, which is sorta like a tweed Deluxe, only less horsepower and a bias-modulating trem circuit. The input is pretty bizarre: it has three inputs with different levels of padding to input grid of...