Picked this up from Mcpherson Stompboxes yesterday and managed a bit of time with it this afternoon. It's makes a pretty good practice amp. It's not really very loud and has an almost entirely clean tone. Sounds quite compressed but not as boxy as some small amps, I think. I made a couple of quick sloppy iPhone recordings, some clean-ish chords and another where I managed a driven sound with a treble booster and the volume control turned right up on the Topanga reverb. Using the Cabronita. Excuse the google drive shit; I don't normally do recordings. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzO0h ... xYeHVsbGlB https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzO0h ... Z0Z3liZmdr
I think it'll do nicely until I line up a proper amp.
I've not actually opened it up. I think there's a 12AX7 in there and possibly another valve or two. I think the circuit is basically the original design with a few tweaks for guitar.
I think the radio could conceivably work. I gave it a go last night and managed to pick up a faint trace of a bloke reading the news. Needs an antenna to function properly, I think.
A while back I tried a Phillips, it had an EL84 output valve and didn't need any mods for a guitar. It had a gramophone input & I just wired a 1/4" jack socket to that. It was an interesting experiment, but soon afterwards I picked up my Champion 600 - much better, so the radio got sold off real quick.
Reminds me I had an car radio (valve type). Set it up in a box with some 6" car type speakers a quad of course. Set the controls to the heart of the sun, oh my lord it screamed a delicious scream... until the end. Was working on an orchard at the time and I'd put the thing out on the bonnet of the HR holden, lunch time fun, I called it the marshall lunchbox back then 30 yrs ago.
2024; I have explored the extent of the perimeter dome, there is no escape. I am become Morpheus
