****** Audio 2" Drake OT color codes? MightyMike?

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:23 pm

Hey, I just picked up a ****** 2" Drake repro OT on eBay for $98.......does anyone out there have the color code for it? I literally won it a couple of minutes ago, so it's not like it's in front of me.........and I guess I'm going to have to build a '67 clone, huh?

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:28 pm

Flames1950 wrote:Hey, I just picked up a ****** 2" Drake repro OT on eBay for $98.......does anyone out there have the color code for it? I literally won it a couple of minutes ago, so it's not like it's in front of me.........and I guess I'm going to have to build a '67 clone, huh?

probably the same as his 1.5 OT

red brown to output tubes - red v4 and v5 - brown v6 and v7

black 4 ohm
yellow 8 ohm
green 16 ohm

and you know what to do with the white wire.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:34 pm

The colors didn't look standard but the lighting in the pics wasn't real good either. So Chris sticks to standard Marshall wire colors huh?

awangotango · Post by **awangotango** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:26 am

that was mine biatch

.............red V5 white v6, orange common. grey 16, green 8, yellow 4. I can double check but pretty sure. enjoy it. from your posts, i think this tranny will be right up your alley.

awangotango · Post by **awangotango** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:53 am

I should add... I went on a OT tranny buying spree lately and have 5, and only 2 amps to build, so some tough choices had to be made. It's funny, when you try to sell something like this, or a greenback, or a pickup, alot of people maybe think it's a 'dud' or just not any good, why else would he be selling it? Well, that's so far from the truth. I think it's because alot of folks see tone and music as a competition, like on rockstar supernova or american idol and they seem to forget it's not a game anyone can win, it's about personal expression and one's personal expression is not the same as another, hence the term , 'personal' expression. This tranny is a great example. It's a rockin unit, but for me and my style, I found a better fit with George's 1.5 clone. I've got alot of anger and tension in my playing as it is and the drake is such a mean tough sound (think early angus/malcolm) that when combined with my own qualities, it's a bit too much and liable to scare women and children. I guess i need an OT that's a little softer and less chest-thumping. Chris mentions that this tranny has alot of low mids and if you ask me it has alot of low,low mids, to me i call it low end. And my tone preference right now is in the vein of EVH/zep II which has virtually no low end, it's chopped right off and it's mostly mid saturation, so that is why this tranny was sold, not because it's a 'dog', just that it doesn't help me express what I want to express, simple as that. But then again, i'm only 35, ten years from now i will likely be ready for this kind of tone and hopefully, Chris will still be windin'.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:09 am

Small world -- thanks for all the info on it!! I think it will be a nice match to the remaining Marstran RS 20H choke I've got here. I'm starting to think transitional '67 for these, the ones with the eight-cap filter boards.......hehehehehe.........gotta get some four inch wide board material for that. Then I may have to decide if I'll sell it or not, I'm accumulating a lotta amps!!

novosibir · Post by **novosibir** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:42 am

awangotango wrote:But then again, i'm only 35, ten years from now i will likely be ready for this kind of tone and hopefully, Chris will still be windin'.

Tone isn't a question of the age

I'm already 54 and still are playing my Metallica and Iced Earth stuff with 'the right' amp for this, as well as Allman Brothers, Cream, Free, aso. stuff with 'another right' amp for that.

BTW: Do you still have another 2" ****** OT for sell? I'd be curious to build an amp around this iron.

Larry

awangotango · Post by **awangotango** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:04 pm

That's beautiful, I hope when i'm 60 i'll still have some fire still burnin' as well. Sorry, no more 2" to give away ! I have a couple mercs, a couple dagnal clones and what I assume to be an original dagnal, but can't see or find any codes or markings on it. Sure sounds like one.

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:07 pm

Andy I think youd be really into an early 67 style. If not sell me that OT.

5150loveeddie · Post by **5150loveeddie** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:32 pm

Flames1950 wrote:Hey, I just picked up a ****** 2" Drake repro OT on eBay for $98.......does anyone out there have the color code for it? I literally won it a couple of minutes ago, so it's not like it's in front of me.........and I guess I'm going to have to build a '67 clone, huh?

Its not the same as the 1.5" let me just check here, BRB

5150loveeddie · Post by **5150loveeddie** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:33 pm

Flames1950 wrote:The colors didn't look standard but the lighting in the pics wasn't real good either. So Chris sticks to standard Marshall wire colors huh?

He does, just like the real Drake colors old on.brb

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:33 pm

Billy Batz wrote:Andy I think youd be really into an early 67 style. If not sell me that OT.

Well I'm hell bent on building the eight-cap black flag version of a '67. Just have to iron out details with the rectifier wiring.......got some of the parts details lined up with George (scrapped the tube-recto 50-watt project again!!!)

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:37 pm

its not the same as his 1.5 OT? hmmm

5150loveeddie · Post by **5150loveeddie** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:44 pm

rockstah wrote:its not the same as his 1.5 OT? hmmm

Nop

Ok have it:

Orange is ground (speakers)
Yellow:4ohms
Green:8ohms
grey:16ohms

red/white: primaries

brown?: CT I guess

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:54 pm

5150loveeddie wrote:
rockstah wrote:its not the same as his 1.5 OT? hmmm
Nop

Ok have it:

Orange is ground (speakers)
Yellow:4ohms
Green:8ohms
grey:16ohms

red/white: primaries

brown?: CT I guess

so the 1.5 is

black 4 ohm
yellow 8 ohm
green 16 ohm

brown ground

red and brown with white stripe primaries ( red to v4 & v5 brown with whiet stripe to v6 & v7

white goes to the main board where choke and fuse are.

is that how yours is wired up?

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