What you'll need:
1. A small, single ended tube amp. Just about anything will do, but bonus points for repurposing that Epiphone Jr. you've been meaning to mod. I have to suspect that almost any little solid state amp will work, too, but I haven't tried it. I'm using my Superbaby because it's set up.
2. A reverb tank. You can get these new, but it's more fun to prowl flea markets and thrift stores for old organs no one wants. Rescue the tank from that. You'll read online that tanks have an input impedance that you have to match to make them sound good. While this is true to an extent, your reverb is NOT going to be a pristine studio verb, this is rock and roll. You might consider not cranking your little amp all the way up so as to not abuse it You can measure the tank resistance, which is supposed to be something like 1/4 of the impedance, or read the code on the side of true Hammond tanks to see what they say. This tank is from an old Allen organ and has no markings on it. Static resistance measures 2 ohms, which according to one table suggests that it's an 8 ohm tank, perfect!
3. Some kind of mixer. I'm using a passive DOD mixer and an ABY box. Guitar signal goes to ABY and splits to the Superbaby and pedalboard. Return from the reverb tank and output from the regular pedalboard go to the mixer, output from that to the bigger amp (London Power Studio). Now you have control over Dwell (or tank drive) with the output from the smaller amp, EQ going into the reverb tank, and mix using the mixing knobs on the small mixer. Voila!
I'll do a Youtube video of this later today!
1. A small, single ended tube amp. Just about anything will do, but bonus points for repurposing that Epiphone Jr. you've been meaning to mod. I have to suspect that almost any little solid state amp will work, too, but I haven't tried it. I'm using my Superbaby because it's set up.
2. A reverb tank. You can get these new, but it's more fun to prowl flea markets and thrift stores for old organs no one wants. Rescue the tank from that. You'll read online that tanks have an input impedance that you have to match to make them sound good. While this is true to an extent, your reverb is NOT going to be a pristine studio verb, this is rock and roll. You might consider not cranking your little amp all the way up so as to not abuse it You can measure the tank resistance, which is supposed to be something like 1/4 of the impedance, or read the code on the side of true Hammond tanks to see what they say. This tank is from an old Allen organ and has no markings on it. Static resistance measures 2 ohms, which according to one table suggests that it's an 8 ohm tank, perfect!
3. Some kind of mixer. I'm using a passive DOD mixer and an ABY box. Guitar signal goes to ABY and splits to the Superbaby and pedalboard. Return from the reverb tank and output from the regular pedalboard go to the mixer, output from that to the bigger amp (London Power Studio). Now you have control over Dwell (or tank drive) with the output from the smaller amp, EQ going into the reverb tank, and mix using the mixing knobs on the small mixer. Voila!
I'll do a Youtube video of this later today!