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JTM45, Throbaks, LP and a Scumnico...

Post by Roadrunner » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:46 am

Metro 45 with the premium Sozo upgrade, Bugle Boy in V1, some sort of non-Mullard "Made in England" tubes in V2/V3, the stock V.A. KT66's and a Mullard GZ34... the JJ's GZ34 that came with the kit lasted a good 3 hours before it died: I think that's pretty good for those JJ's! Man, those tubes suck. The amp's biased to 40ma., the plate voltage is right around 390 to 395 volts... around 15.8 watts.
I built this amp for a customer, it's got about 25 hours on it so far. He's sending me some GEC's for it and in the meantime I'm having a blast breaking it in for him.

Pics of the amp:
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Guitar is a Historic with Throbak pickups, the speaker's a 12" Scumnico in a 1x12" Avatar cab. I plugged straight in.
I love these Scumnico speakers of Jim's, best "old" AlNiCo tone going in a new speaker.

Settings:
In the normal channel... everything's on 10, except the bass and the presence, I backed those off to around 7 :lol:

Sorry about the playing, I was goofing around :oops:

Dry: For George... no processing :lol: :
http://h1.ripway.com/GJB58/Goofin%20on%20Beano.mp3

With a little slapback and some reverb, nothing's EQ'd, I left that alone:
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The mics are a couple of ribbons, cuz they were the only thing out of the mic locker. About 10 inches away from the speaker was an AEA R92 and the "room" mic is a Royer 121 about 3 feet or so from the cab.

I'll tell ya, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, if you don't own one of these amps... you're truly missing out on a FUN tone machine!
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Re: JTM45, Throbaks, LP and a Scumnico...

Post by VelvetGeorge » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:42 am

Awesome clips! And thanks for the dry ones! he he.

I just made some clips with almost the same set up, that I'll post over the weekend.

JTM45 in a 2-12 combo, Bluesbreaker style. With Celestion Golds, instead of Scummies.

I had a borrowed R-92 about a foot out and a M160 in the room. Ribbon mics rule!

Mine was with Throbaks too.


Great work on the amp and clips, and those Scumbacks sound terrific!

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Re: JTM45, Throbaks, LP and a Scumnico...

Post by Roadrunner » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:06 pm

Thanks George! Man, I can't stop playin' that amp, it's SO much fun!

Jim's AlNiCo Scumnico is such a fine speaker... first new AlNiCo that really does the old tone of the original AlNiCo's; all of Jim's speakers are great.


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