JTM45, Throbaks, LP and a Scumnico...
Posted: 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:
http://images.lilypix.com/albums/userpi ... G_2520.JPG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://images.lilypix.com/albums/userpi ... baks_1.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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
Sorry about the playing, I was goofing around
Dry: For George... no processing :
http://h1.ripway.com/GJB58/Goofin%20on%20Beano.mp3
With a little slapback and some reverb, nothing's EQ'd, I left that alone:
http://h1.ripway.com/GJB58/BnOrevslap.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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!
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:
http://images.lilypix.com/albums/userpi ... G_2520.JPG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://images.lilypix.com/albums/userpi ... baks_1.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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
Sorry about the playing, I was goofing around
Dry: For George... no processing
:http://h1.ripway.com/GJB58/Goofin%20on%20Beano.mp3
With a little slapback and some reverb, nothing's EQ'd, I left that alone:
http://h1.ripway.com/GJB58/BnOrevslap.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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!
