How Many?

[Bacchus]

Inspired by the guitar thread.

The true test of gear whoredom, have you ammassed enough amps that you might have what could be considered a collection?

Cabinets do not count as amps (obviously).

I have:

Fender Frontman 25R
Marshall AVT150H with AVT412 cabinet
Fender Champion 600
Epiphone Valve Junior Head (with blown transformer )

I want:
Tiny Terror
Peavey Delta Blues

[Mike]

3 amps;

Marshall JVM410H 100W Head
Marshall 6100 100W Head
Orange Tiny Terror 15W/7W Head

and for completeness, 3 cabinets:

Marshall Lead Series 1936 2x12" Straight Cabinet (G12T-75s)
Marshall JCM800 Series 1960A 4x12" Angled Cabinet (G12T-75s)
Marshall Lead 12 (5005 model) Combo coverted into 1x10" Cabinet (G10-25R)


Not really a collection, but probably too many.

Do want: Orange AD30HTC

[Mike]

Epiphone Valve Junior Head (with blown transformer )

How did you manage that?

[Bacchus]

I was stuck at my parents house for a while, so I made a cab out of the Fender Frontman by cutting the speaker cable, and putting a jack on the end.

It worked well, and provided me with a nice, bright tone that was different from the one I'd get with the Marshall cabinet. This was accented by the lively acoustics of my parents large tiled kitchen and dining room. Very enjoyable.

A few days later, after someone had moved the amp to one side, I went to plug in again. I checked everyting was plugged in, turned on, strummed a chord and sat waiting for the valves to come to life. This did not happen. After a generous amount of time waiting for the valves to warm up/transformer to cook, I switched off. I tried it with the Marshall cab, and it still doesn't work.

I'm not sure what to do with it. It's hardly worth the price of a new transformer, like, is it?

If I win the lottery or something, I'll replace it with a Mercury Magnetics Transformer.

Actually, now that I think about it, that sort of rules out the Fender Frontman too I suppose. That takes me back down to a more reasonable two amps.

[Mike]

Are the Valves lighting up? Have you checked fuses?

Are you sure the cable is shorted/open circuit? Get your multimeter out.

In future the general rule is that if it doesn't make sound after a couple of seconds turn off and check everything twice.

[Mr Mustache]

only 1

1967 Alamo Fury 1/15 Bass Combo


Need Vox AC30 or TopHat Club Royale

[Bacchus]

Are the Valves lighting up? Have you checked fuses?

Are you sure the cable is shorted/open circuit? Get your multimeter out.

In future the general rule is that if it doesn't make sound after a couple of seconds turn off and check everything twice.

I have checked nothing, and have no multimeter.

The power light is lighting up. I'll check valves when I get home.

[euan]

Have:
Laney VC30 1x12
Orange Tiny Terror

Want:
Orange AD30HTC
Mike's Marshall 6100LM from his cold dead hands
THD UniValve

[Mike]

Are the Valves lighting up? Have you checked fuses?

Are you sure the cable is shorted/open circuit? Get your multimeter out.

In future the general rule is that if it doesn't make sound after a couple of seconds turn off and check everything twice.

I have checked nothing, and have no multimeter.

The power light is lighting up. I'll check valves when I get home.

That means one fuse is OK, try checking the HT fuse inside if the tubes don't light up. Also worth checking the tubes themselves.

[Bacchus]

Does this mean that it might not be the transformer?

Because at the time I kind of thought: "ah well, fuck that!" and gave up, like.

[Mike]

That would be the worst case scenario, but there's plenty else could have taken the fall.

Get a DMM, you can't tell anything without one. You need to work out what was wrong with the speaker lead you made and then debug the amp.

[Bacchus]

How much do thay cost, then?

I'm poor fairly reliabley.

[Mike]

Not much. If you going to do ANYTHING with amps (like making a speaker lead as you did) you need one to check your work.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?cri ... ce=15&SD=Y

I have one of these:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Mod ... r&doy=18m2



You can get one for £15 or less though

[Doog]

Marshall JCM2000 DSL50 head
Laney World Series 120H s/s head (practise space)
Some old HH 150w bass head, it has a built in phaser! And is starting to make farty noises :/ (practise space)

Marshall JCM900 2x12 cab, bought from Siamese Dreamer (now "Another Tool") back in the JS days. Arrived wrapped in brown paper, lolz.

Peavey 1x15, on it's third speaker.. (practise space)

Oh, and the ever-awesome Zoom Fire 15 for home rockin'.

[dots]

marshall jvm 410h and a fender pro jr. i miss having the prosonic around, but i'll get another one some day. for cabs, i just have the marshall 1960a 4x12. had a '73 bassman 100 rig w/ a fender 4x12 cab hot-rodded w/ celestions, but i sold it to junkbox.

[Mike]

Siamese Dreamer (now "Another Tool") back in the JS days. Arrived wrapped in brown paper, lolz.

haha I never knew that. Funneh.

Did he end up stabbing his dad in the neck or did he get over that?

[Doog]

No idea, he's back on JS and MSN if you wanna ask.

[Mike]

Nah, I'm alright.

[Justin J]

just two:
- fender hot rod deville 2x12 (currently being used as a speaker cab)
- fender bandmaster (blackface)

want:
- a proper speaker cab and then sell the deville
- brownface princeton
- higher wattage amp with overdrive, maybe a modded showman or a bassman 300 or possibly even orange or marshall.

[dodgedartdave]

Carvin BelAir 2 12
Blues Jr with Hog Cab
72 MM Bass Amp with extention Cab