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| Pile-o-amps.
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The current
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| My 1966 Fender
Vibrolux
Reverb |
My recording area |
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My Guitars |
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| Ibanez JS1200CA |
Bastard Strat 1 |
Bastard Strat 2 |
Ibanez Bass |
Tacoma Road King |
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newest Guitar is the red Ibanez JS1200CA. Both humbuckers can be switched to
single coils. Both pots are pull pots with switches. It came with Tele style
chrome knurled knobs. I changed the knobs to black numbered rubber gripped
knobs. |
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of the Strats are highly modified.
They have stock Fender single coil pickups in the neck and middle. They both
have a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck full sized humbucker in the bridge position.
The humbuckers can be switched into a high powered single coil by flipping a
small toggle switch below the volume control. There is only one volume
control and no tone controls on both guitars. Both guitars also have a 500p
cap soldered across the volume control so that when you turn down the volume
the tone cleans up and stays bright and clear. |
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red Ibanez Bass is what I use to record the tunes. It's a cheapo Bass but it
records and plays and sounds just fine. |
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Acoustic is my Tacoma Road King. It's a great sounding guitar, but it seems
to get better and better sounding with age. |
| You can hear these guitars in action on
this page Sound
clips page |
05/2007 update on Bastard Strat #2 - I Made this guitar into a
hybrid 7 string with only 6 strings.
I removed the fender style tremolo bar from the old Fender style bridge.
I pulled the bridge down hard to the body by adding 5 tremolo springs, no float at all on the bridge.
I then Added a .059 string where the big E string is.
I Shifted the other strings one place down the line and removed the normal high E string.
I filed the nut grooves for the bigger strings.
The string gauges are now .059w, .048w, .038w, .028w, 18, 14
It is tuned B, E, A, D, F#, B
This guitar has a mucho heavy tone now and it's a blast to use for rhythm parts. |
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AB763 amp project |
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| Update: 10/02/2007. I added a faceplate to the amp and named it Super
Vibrolux |
This used
to be a 1966
Deluxe Reverb chassis. I purchased the chassis and cabinet as part of a large Fender junk pile
deal.
The chassis had a Twin Reverb power transformer in it when I bought it and it was pretty
hacked up. The cabinet was bare wood. I made a new 2 x 10 baffle board
because I like the sound of 10 inch speakers in Fender type amps.
I installed a Hoffman AB763 reverb combo circuit board in the chassis.
I added a dwell control to the reverb and it has the normal reverb mix
control found on all Fender AB763 combo's. It has power tube tremolo, not
opto tremolo.
I deleted channel one from the AB763 circuit board. Who uses channel one?
Then I moved all the controls to the left.
The controls starting from the left are ( Volume, Dwell, Mix --- Treble,
Mid, Bass, Speed, Intensity )
The baffle is a 2 x 10 speaker arrangement so this amp is now closer to
a Vibrolux Reverb than a Deluxe reverb. It has a 022798 power transformer,
which is the Super Reverb/Pro reverb power transformer so it has more power
than a Vibrolux Reverb. It is Probably around 40 something watts.
The output transformer is a Hoffman H50WO, these trannies are not
available any more. I have a rotary impedance selector on the back
so I can use different cabinets or two cabinets at once. The filter caps are
all inside along the front edge, there is no cap can. I am using EH6L6 power
tubes and the amp sounds very good. I have also used EH6V6's in the amp but
I needed more over head for the surf tune stuff I do.
I had Mojo re-cover the cabinet and add grille cloth to the custom 2 x 10
baffle board. The speakers are new Jensen C10Q's. I don't have a face plate
for the amp because all the functions are not stock or in a stock location.
You can hear this amp on this page.
Sound
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