dohmar
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Today I picked up my new amp.... Woohoo!
Its a locally made amp from Adelaide, Australia (home) by Neale Amplifiers (www.amplifiers.com.au)
Basically, its a D-style amp (Dumble Overdrive Special type preamp + cascading gain with dual tone stacks), 20 watt mono with 6V6's and a reverb tank. Three gain stages, the third one modelled on a Hiwatt OD rather than a Marshall. Footswitch to switch between clean and OD but will get Neale to mod the front to have a toggle switch for the convenience.
I'm just testing it at the moment, we still have some alterations to make both cosmetically and functionally but the next few weeks will be me breaking it in and getting used to the settings. Its got a couple of 1970s russian tubes (the 6v6's) a 70s era british tube (for the rectifier, I think), some other tube I dont recognize as the reverb driver and 2x 12AX7 for preamp 'stuff'.
Andrew, the amp builder, is gonna put some more technical details on his blog in the coming days, which I'll update this thread when it happens, but for now heres what it looks like. Made to match my Avatar 2x12 but we have some obvious refinement to go (ie front panel writing, piping, orientation of mesh, knob and button placement etc etc). All in good time....
Since I also have a 35watt stereo rack power amp from Neale (https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/big-red-amp-custom-rack-power-amp-build.1466904/), I'm considering going full-retard and buying a 3rd Avatar cab, sit it in the middle and run an output to stereo rack fx and then do a W/D/W thingo but I'm not sure if I want to go that mental...tho maybe I should.
Sounds ballsy btw. 6V6's were definately a better choice than EL84's...
The only downside is that my pedal setup just got twice as complicated. Not sure how I'm going to manage...
Comments/questions welcome
-D
Today I picked up my new amp.... Woohoo!
Its a locally made amp from Adelaide, Australia (home) by Neale Amplifiers (www.amplifiers.com.au)
Basically, its a D-style amp (Dumble Overdrive Special type preamp + cascading gain with dual tone stacks), 20 watt mono with 6V6's and a reverb tank. Three gain stages, the third one modelled on a Hiwatt OD rather than a Marshall. Footswitch to switch between clean and OD but will get Neale to mod the front to have a toggle switch for the convenience.
I'm just testing it at the moment, we still have some alterations to make both cosmetically and functionally but the next few weeks will be me breaking it in and getting used to the settings. Its got a couple of 1970s russian tubes (the 6v6's) a 70s era british tube (for the rectifier, I think), some other tube I dont recognize as the reverb driver and 2x 12AX7 for preamp 'stuff'.
Andrew, the amp builder, is gonna put some more technical details on his blog in the coming days, which I'll update this thread when it happens, but for now heres what it looks like. Made to match my Avatar 2x12 but we have some obvious refinement to go (ie front panel writing, piping, orientation of mesh, knob and button placement etc etc). All in good time....
Since I also have a 35watt stereo rack power amp from Neale (https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/big-red-amp-custom-rack-power-amp-build.1466904/), I'm considering going full-retard and buying a 3rd Avatar cab, sit it in the middle and run an output to stereo rack fx and then do a W/D/W thingo but I'm not sure if I want to go that mental...tho maybe I should.



Sounds ballsy btw. 6V6's were definately a better choice than EL84's...
The only downside is that my pedal setup just got twice as complicated. Not sure how I'm going to manage...

Comments/questions welcome
-D
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