Princeton reverb build

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Re: Princeton reverb build

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Hey - this is great! What's the story? Did you find a chassis and rebuild? Would love to know more on how you put this together. Got a blog or anything?
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Re: Princeton reverb build

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MattH wrote:Hey - this is great! What's the story? Did you find a chassis and rebuild? Would love to know more on how you put this together. Got a blog or anything?
Cheers man. No blog as yet, but thinking of doing a you tube of it.
Took it to Ryan at the amp shop today to show him as he gave me a lot of advice and supplied some parts. He gave it s solid thumbs up.

I bought the chassis and small parts of trademe, the rest from Ryan and online shops. A lot of research, diagram trawling and burnt fingers.

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Re: Princeton reverb build

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felt this amp was a tad dark for humbuckers but just right for single coils. I had put a bright cap across the volume but that made it too bright for single coils. Sigh. So I grabbed a cts push pull pot from Ryan to replace the volume pot. soldered in a 250 pf cap in.
Very happy with the result and no more holes in the chassis or lengthy switch wires.
No more mr muddy pants with the humbuckers.
This is the pot I used prior to installation:
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Re: Princeton reverb build

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Do you mind if I ask the approximate cost of the build?

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Re: Princeton reverb build

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Hmmm
Chassis and amp about $150, but I got it off trade me.
Probably about $200 further parts.
Vintage cabinet off eBay another $200
Speaker $150
Tone......priceless

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Re: Princeton reverb build

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Molly wrote:Do you mind if I ask the approximate cost of the build?
Plus valves ...$$$

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Re: Princeton reverb build

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Just gave the Princeton a good run a jvpp's Yamaha-torium and tested out the filtertrons against some stock Yamaha pickups.
Also raided jvpp's spare parts draw and scored the missing back to one of the tuners on my sa50! Score!

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StrummersOfThunder wrote:Hmmm
Chassis and amp about $150, but I got it off trade me.
Probably about $200 further parts.
Vintage cabinet off eBay another $200
Speaker $150
Tone......priceless
Which is pretty cheap going for a PR build. They can easily be twice that.
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Re: Princeton reverb build

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So, how's it sound? Happy with it?

I'd love to give something like this a go but, realistically, i'd melt half the components and electrocute myself.

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Re: Princeton reverb build

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Molly wrote:So, how's it sound? Happy with it?

I'd love to give something like this a go but, realistically, i'd melt half the components and electrocute myself.
I'm 100% happy with it. Sounds just as it should. Glorious tremolo, lush deep reverb. Chimney fender cleans and now with the push pull bright cap mod it's a lot more versatile.
The cannibis Rex is jest starting to break in too. Plus the whole unit is pretty light so now back breaking hauling going on.
if you like the fendr clean thing, you'll love this.

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Re: Princeton reverb build

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Molly wrote:
So, how's it sound? Happy with it?
Sound absolutely marvelous with a Yamaha SA50 with original pickups :D

Hmmm, we should have recorded those two SA50's sounds... Filtertrons against Original
When faced with quality, I recognise it every time.

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Re: Princeton reverb build

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jvpp wrote:
Molly wrote:
So, how's it sound? Happy with it?
Sound absolutely marvelous with a Yamaha SA50 with original pickups :D

Hmmm, we should have recorded those two SA50's sounds... Filtertrons against Original
Yes, that would have been interesting. There is quite a difference, but it's mainly in output.
Plus my filtertrons are shinier and more toastery.

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