Show us your amp

sydknee · Post by **sydknee** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:07 pm

Rog wrote:LOL- prick!!

They did have TV when I was a kid though - I can still remember watching Bill & Ben the Flower Pot men in 1952!!

While standing in the street outside the local electrical shop looking through the window with about a dozen other people?

ash · Post by **ash** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:08 pm

angry_young_poet wrote:Epi valve jr. $329 5 watt all tube. awesome amp darkness. get one!

They're not all-valve. They have SS op-amps driving each valve stage.

johnny mullet · Post by **johnny mullet** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:39 pm

Timi wrote:I dont think I posted my amp the first time round, but here is my recent addition.

Ironically, the one thing I dont like is the colour......

Yeah but a green orange amp would just be wrong

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:06 pm

darkness wrote: I'd love some full tube head, but there's no point for that at the moment.

When is there ever no point in "full tube head" snigger snigger [/beavis & butthead]

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:27 pm

While standing in the street outside the local electrical shop looking through the window with about a dozen other people?

LOL not at all - we had this smegging huge cabinet TV with what was probably a 10" screen. It was in Engerland, of course, Kiwiland didn't get TV for another 10+ years... My Dad was a television/radio serviceman in London at the time.

AmpShop · Post by **AmpShop** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:09 pm

Timi wrote:I dont think I posted my amp the first time round, but here is my recent addition.

Ironically, the one thing I dont like is the colour......

I have a spare Matamp-built headsleeve - black - fits OR120 type amps, not sure if it'd fit an AD200 though.

AmpShop · Post by **AmpShop** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:10 pm

johnny mullet wrote:
Timi wrote:I dont think I posted my amp the first time round, but here is my recent addition.

Ironically, the one thing I dont like is the colour......
Yeah but a green orange amp would just be wrong

In that case, it would be a GREEN amp, or more specifically, a GREEN-Matamp

Timi · Post by **Timi** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:35 pm

CustomAudioBoutique wrote:I have a spare Matamp-built headsleeve - black - fits OR120 type amps, not sure if it'd fit an AD200 though.

I did think of this when I first got the amp, but saw that the Matamp sizes were different.

Its a fairly simple box, be easy to make up another one and cover it black, just can't really be bothered.....

Unfinished · Post by **Unfinished** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:18 pm

I bought a Roland Microcube today. It's quite fun to play around with and sounds surprisingly big for a flea sized box. Can't light up that Jansen all the time..

AmpShop · Post by **AmpShop** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:20 pm

Timi wrote:
CustomAudioBoutique wrote:I have a spare Matamp-built headsleeve - black - fits OR120 type amps, not sure if it'd fit an AD200 though.
I did think of this when I first got the amp, but saw that the Matamp sizes were different.

Its a fairly simple box, be easy to make up another one and cover it black, just can't really be bothered.....

The box I've got is for old-school Orange sized chassis - it will fit an AD30, as chassis bolt holes have not been drilled in it ... not sure if it'll fit the AD200 chassis though.

Post by **Capt. Black** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:18 pm

A few weeks back I scored this knackered old Marshall Super Bass. Made in 1974. The earliest model I have yet to own. It's been up at Clarry's place since I got it. He's gently fired it up on the variac until he was confident nothing would blow. We looked over it and saw that there had been quite extensive internal mods done to make it a two channel guitar amp but nothing that was irreversible. We decided the best plan was to restore it back to stocka and see what I thought.

Got it home today and fired it up for the first time.

What did I thought? HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!! THIS THING IS AN ABSOLUTE BEAST!!!!

I can't begin to describe how good it is. Even compared to the Mule, my faithful '77 model 1959 head. Everything the the Mule does best, this can do better. It's just so good. The Super Bass and the Mule are pretty much the same inside, so it's amazing how different this head is. Still needs a little work done and a decent set of tubes flung at it.

Marshall have agreed to supply a new enclosure for it from the HW series. That arrives in January. Right now I quite like the quaint cut-down bookshelf look.

Dare I unleash this at the NZG party next week?

Post by Bg » Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:28 pm

I don't think you have a choice in the matter, it IS your duty!

Post by **Capt. Black** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:55 pm

bluesgeek wrote:I don't think you have a choice in the matter, it IS your duty!

itz fuken loud.

Post by Bg » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:10 pm

fuk bro itz loud enuf to make earz bleedz

Post by **Capt. Black** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:17 pm

Bring your ear-plugs on Sunday and I'll show you what I mean.