Let's See Your Amps

Anyway, here's my main amp that I'm really pleased with. It started life as a Winfield Cyclone (EF86 AC15 style), but after many problems, returns, new transformers and a replacement, I decided to just totally gut it and do my own thing. Not a single issue, including no hum for 2 years now.

Added a cap switch like a Matchless
Added Grid stop resistors
Biased it more sensibly and upped screen resistors so it doesn't eat EL84s
Added a 'squish' compression mod on the EF86
Added a voltage control
Princeton-style treble cut tone control
Sozo film caps
F&T filter caps
1W and 2W Carbon film resisors

And as a Tom Petty devotee, I called it the Wilbury and put the Wildflowers logo on it. Love how this thing sounds and how versatile it is.

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jubal81 said:
Cooder, your work is the best I've seen on the entire friggin internet.
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Too much kudos , Jason.... there's so much amazing stuff out there from all you guys! Thanks anyway, I'll take it as a high five in lockdown times.
thewintersoldier said:
If they sound half as good as they look then I might as well just go deaf now! That's some real amp porn cooder, hawt dayum!
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Cheers Dude! I like to think they sound great and I know I might be a bit biased. Anyway, good fun doing DIY and making things.
 
All I can say is GODDAMN! I am blown away. What an impressive set of rigs, one and all! Beautiful hand-built amps! What craftsmanship!

No pix of mine, yet.
My amps:
Ampeg V4B - way too loud
Earth Sound Research G-2000 (American Marshall clone) - use to be way too loud, needs a new power tranny after my brother killed it by playing a drum synth thru it.
Monoprice 15W combo - Laney C15 clone
Monoprice 5W combo - Laney Cub8 clone

I use the two Monoprices in my practice room, in stereo.
I recently refurbed a '66 Deluxe Reverb for a friend of mine, what a sweet amp! All original, it only needed new electrolytic caps and a few CC power resistors that had drifted way out of spec. The 50+ year old tubes all measured in spec.
 
All of these handmade amps having me wanting to build a tube amp, but the only tube amp I've ever really gotten on with was a '64 Bassman. Any one know of a kit? ;)
 
I think mojotone has all the parts for a blackface bassman. Not sure why they don’t offer it as a complete kit.
 
Chuck D. Bones said:
All I can say is GODDAMN! I am blown away. What an impressive set of rigs, one and all! Beautiful hand-built amps! What craftsmanship!

No pix of mine, yet.
My amps:
Ampeg V4B - way too loud
Earth Sound Research G-2000 (American Marshall clone) - use to be way too loud, needs a new power tranny after my brother killed it by playing a drum synth thru it.
Monoprice 15W combo - Laney C15 clone
Monoprice 5W combo - Laney Cub8 clone

I use the two Monoprices in my practice room, in stereo.
I recently refurbed a '66 Deluxe Reverb for a friend of mine, what a sweet amp! All original, it only needed new electrolytic caps and a few CC power resistors that had drifted way out of spec. The 50+ year old tubes all measured in spec.
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I have a Monoprice 15W as well, and a Fender DRRI,
 
I was going to pull the trigger on the little 5w monoprice but they just jumped up in price for no reason (on the CDN distributor site) ?‍♂️
 
Here is mine... Signal is split at my pedalboard. Distortion from a Suhr Riot clone and wet effects to to the early Laney Pro Tube Lead 50w (Marshall JCM800 knockoff) into a beat-to-hell Egnater 4x12 w/ V30s. Dry signal via low-end fuzz (currently a Fuzz War, but soon to be the Arkaim Fuzz I just finished) goes into this weird little boutique head someone gave me (it's a 30w SLO-100 clone... but not quite), into a Mitchell Sand Cabinet 2x12 with, I believe, some vintage '80s bass Celestions. The two together sound fairly devastating—it's fun.
 

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i loooooove the maverick
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Me too and they're such sleepers. Hardly anyone had heard of them but they've got the sweetest clean sound I've ever heard. The drive is a bit woofy (well, like an ac30) but that clean is something else and I'm a chugga chugga guy.
 
One day I will build my own amp.. well at a least a kit. I don't have the knowledge to know by changing "X" component I will get "Y" results.
 
Don't judge my clutter too harshly. I mostly use the Sunn T50C, but when I replace the power tubes of my Laney AOR 50 I'll probably use that more. My cab is a Sunn 610 that I got at a really killer price. When the quarantine is lifted out here I'll be grabbing a Peavey TKO65 for very, very cheap as well. I have no idea why I need so much power, but I do.
 

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Some serious amps on this thread...

I haven’t gotten into the tube amps yet. Maybe one day no definitely one day but for now I have two silver stripe Peaveys. An Envoy 110 that I restored to a much nicer retro look and a Bandit 112 that j am currently building a mahogany enclosure for. No pictures of the bandit yet but it will look like those wood mesa express with wicker speaker cover. Pictures of the envoy below.

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I put a new reverb tank in it and machined a custom transtube logo plate for it. Only thing I’ve put off doing is wrapping the back plate in maroon leather but that is on the todo list. The bandit is super loud so the envoy is perfect for low volume play in the house.
 
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