A friend of mine built a headshell and speaker cab for what was previously a ludicrously oversized 2x12 combo. It looks great! I ripped the tolex on a corner shortly after this photo was taken, obviously.
It's a Garnet Deputy II, which is Garnet's take on a JTM45/100. It even has the dual 50W output transformers instead of a single 100W like the original run of marshalls.
My wife chose our living room color to match one of my amps. I've got 4 guitars hanging on the living room walls, and a gear room upstairs. Oh and drums and more amps in the basement
My wife and I rent a two bedroom house that's about 800 sqft and is over 100 years old (and looks it!). My "studio" is sprawling throughout most of the living room. Not pictured there is my upright bass, which is in the opposite corner. There is a violin, melodica, cajon, ukulele, banjo, autoharp, and mandolin hiding in there somewhere.
Glad I have a supportive partner!
Edit to add: I can't play all of these instruments and just wanted to make sure it didn't seem as if I were implying I did!
I simply run an orphanage for instruments others have up on or were going to throw away. I also like playing with them to see what kinds of sounds I can get from them. I can't in good faith let an instrument end up in a dumpster. I also apparently hope to start the greatest street corner jam one day.
My wife and I rent a two bedroom house that's about 800 sqft and is over 100 years old (and looks it!). My "studio" is sprawling throughout most of the living room. Not pictured there is my upright bass, which is in the opposite corner. There is a violin, melodica, cajon, ukulele, banjo, autoharp, and mandolin hiding in there somewhere.
With a small space you need to go vertical as much as possible. My problem is that I used wire shelved and inadvertently created a faraday cage. Bad cell reception and I will never know if my fuzzes pick up radio signals.
With a small space you need to go vertical as much as possible. My problem is that I used wire shelved and inadvertently created a faraday cage. Bad cell reception and I will never know if my fuzzes pick up radio signals.
Yeah, I need to get some shelves up on the wall where the keyboard is. There's an old radiator there that does not work. The owner said that he was going to get rid of it (as well as multiple other fixes) but then he died (he had cancer and was doing well for a long time until he wasn't all of the sudden) and so his wife is now our landlord. She is a very sweet lady and I like her a lot, but she was not prepared at all after he died in terms of paying bills or anything like that, so we aren't really expecting anything to be done. I think that she is getting hosed by the (completely useless) management company she uses (I don't know what they do other than collect money, they certainly don't return our emails) and she hired some roofers to replace the shingles nearly three weeks ago who took the shingles off and have sense disappeared. So yeah - that's my long way round saying that I don't think that this place will have anything fixed in it and I don't want to do too much since we hope to move in the relatively near future and I feel like this management company is shady af.
I love those wire racks and I have a couple in the garage. They are super handy, but I didn't even think about them creating a faraday cage in your apartment, that's nuts!
A friend of mine built a headshell and speaker cab for what was previously a ludicrously oversized 2x12 combo. It looks great! I ripped the tolex on a corner shortly after this photo was taken, obviously.
It's a Garnet Deputy II, which is Garnet's take on a JTM45/100. It even has the dual 50W output transformers instead of a single 100W like the original run of marshalls.
I just quoted your post, 'cause for GARNET! one heart-eyes imoji "like" isn't good enough, it needed another with cooler cat-ears.
GARNET!
I'd love to have stencil Garnet or a real GARNET!
@peccary Wow! Great little home studio and good collection.
I can sort of relate: No home studio, though I was gifted a Motu that's too old to run on my computer that's too old to run anything new.
I've got a violin my previous band's fiddler entrusted me with, the guitar player donated a non-functioning mandolin; My first band's guitarist gave me a dutar to look after; I found a Melodica at a street market on a blanket for HK$40 (US$5) blanket not included; ocarina from Taiwan in the shape of a VW bus was a gift and another in the form of a turtle I got in Taiwan (they're crazy for ocarinas there); a half-shell coconut thumb piano — a gift; a crazy Asian wind instrument with multiple bamboo pipes with slide stoppers in addition to finger holes — another gift, for which I don't even know the name of; I collect "foley" and related cartoon sound FX stuff such as slide whistles etc... Oh, and I was given a Vox amp by my amp-sifu friend to look after... Ukuleles, bass ukulele...
At some point, you run out of room (not including what's in Canada...) with 3 double-basses, 2 bass guitars, 2 acoustics, a cheapo Strat, a cheap Tele in progress... So one starts passing them on...
Guitars that have been gifted to me, ex: a Baby Taylor that I've re-gifted to a mutual friend of the giver; was given a Hamer Slammer bass that I gave to my Canadian guitar-friend's daughter... I'll give the Vox back ... might gift a DB (needs work), repair and sell another, take third one to Canada or sell?
Here's my little Trend prior to repair, I'll have to get an updated pic of it.
@Feral Feline that looks like a pepco? I have a similar thing—no output transformer so it's basically electrocution waiting to happen. It's sitting on top of a bookcase as a piece of decor in my office at this point.
@Feral Feline that looks like a pepco? I have a similar thing—no output transformer so it's basically electrocution waiting to happen. It's sitting on top of a bookcase as a piece of decor in my office at this point.
Okay, I'm back for more. I went through a major shake up after my November post and built several amps in the process!
One Watt Studio kit that I got for Christmas. I really dig the channel switching and bedroom level JCM800 tones!
- Mojotone kit
- Guitar Cabinets Direct head
Here are a few 5C3 Deluxe builds. Besides having octal preamp tubes, it's a nice change up from the 5E3 circuit! Not quite as mean..
- both were pretty much sourced from scratch. The chassis were found through eBay, the cabs were purchased from Mojotone.
"Huckleberry" - built for a friend
"Bird Dog" - mine
And finally, my Deluxe Reverb build! This one has a few tricks up its sleeve:
- Normal Treble - pull for mid boost
- Normal Bass- pull for Raw (tone stack bypass)
- Vibrato Volume - pull to remove bright cap
- Vibrato Intensity - pull to bypass Vibrato circuity (small gain/volume boost)
Fancy cab by Guitar Cabinets Direct (and running an Eminence GA-SC64)
Other noteworthy amp acquisitions (not pictured):
- Orange Rockerverb 50 MKIII (couldn't help myself..)
- Swart STR Tweed
@Feral Feline that looks like a pepco? I have a similar thing—no output transformer so it's basically electrocution waiting to happen. It's sitting on top of a bookcase as a piece of decor in my office at this point.
Took me literally decades to find out what it was, so little info on the PEPCO and absolutely zilch on the "Trend". There's been a few Trends come out of the woodwork in the last 5 years or so, go Internet! I had some awesome tubes in it, and then had a brain-fart and F%^&*I@ up the 12AX7 in it... Expensive lesson learned the hard way. If I'd have been patient, my amp-sifu would've prevented me from ruining it.
It's back together now, a few minor mods that definitely improved it — such as bumping the vol-pot from 500k to 1M. Had to replace the OT, couple of pots. Still to do, properly ground the sucker and retire the fishcap-to-chassis-electrocution-waiting-to-happen.
Got a wee bit more work done on my 5E3 build tonight. Broke two drill bits trying to drill some ears for the chassis. It's going to be stuffed into a head, but still have the option to combo-ise it.
I've been watching demos of the OR15 and Rocker 15 for a more portable alternative to the RV50... Every time I think one has the edge, the other blows me away!
Expensive lesson learned the hard way. If I'd have been patient, my amp-sifu would've prevented me from ruining it.
