Show Off Your Rigs: Rebirth

[Bro. Righteous]

Our engineer dude's current basement set-up: (click image to enlarge methinks)



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[Volume]

Dig the lava lamps. 

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All this is lookin' good boys! Keep it comin'!

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UPDATED!

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[sheikyerbouti]

my 70s kasuga lp

most of my pedals

my orange or120 clone (had it built by a  friend of a friend ) toned down to 50 watts, which i´m regretting now

[Stonergrunge]

Guitar and amp: Lyon By Washburn and a Washburn VGA 30R South Side 30 watts SS combo



The pedals: RMC Picture Wah, MJM London Fuzz, MJM Sixties Vibe and Electro-Harmonix Pulsar Tremolo.



I know, the guitar and amp are cheap and entry-level quality but at least they get the job done.

[MONOLITHLOUD]

This is my bass cab, running an Acoustic 220 through this guy:



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[fuzzfarmer]

These rig threads are my favorite....so thought I'd post up some of mine. I have other stuff, but this pretty much the heart of it.

'73 Sunn Model T
'74 Orange OR120
'74 Orange 4x12
     Empeor 4x12

'97 Guild S-100

Turbo Tuner
Radial ABY
Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh(s) #9 and #25
DMM

[black_out]

Nice Fuzzfarmer! Most people would kill to have one of those setups, let alone both. Although, I don't think I've talked to one person that hasn't had constant problems with their OR120. You have any problems with yours? Worth the headache?

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These rig threads are my favorite....so thought I'd post up some of mine. I have other stuff, but this pretty much the heart of it.

'73 Sunn Model T
'74 Orange OR120
'74 Orange 4x12
     Empeor 4x12

'97 Guild S-100

Turbo Tuner
Radial ABY
Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh(s) #9 and #25
DMM

You owe me new boxers.

[fuzzfarmer]

Nice Fuzzfarmer! Most people would kill to have one of those setups, let alone both. Although, I don't think I've talked to one person that hasn't had constant problems with their OR120. You have any problems with yours? Worth the headache?

I've only had it for about a year, but its been good to me so far.  Not long after I got it, it started making a noise, turned out to be something small like a solder joint or something.  I bought it from a guy, that said he had it for about 2 years, and he bought it from a guy that had it in a studio since around 1974.  So I doubt that the thing has had to run at the volume, or endure the vibrations that I put it through, running my guitar tuned to B standard, through it...

I've only heard of people having problems with the newer orange models, with the tubes mounted on the circuit board and stuff like that.

[Discö Rice]

Tubes mounted on the circuit board. Eep. Gonna have to take a closer look at that Thunderverb 200...

[fuzzfarmer]

Tubes mounted on the circuit board. Eep. Gonna have to take a closer look at that Thunderverb 200...

I dont know about the thunderverb...

Here is an example I found of modern orange..


Here is an example I found of an old OR120...although the doubled up caps on the board aren't orignal..still looks like a less troublesome amp.


EDIT:actually thats probably an OD120 or whatever they were..the ones with master volume. Looks like it has an extra knob.

[Hemisaurus]

I think unless you get a new custom shop hand-wired Orange it's going to be PCB based.

I like Joel's thread on their overhaul of one of the new Oranges

http://www.planetoftheamps.com/orange-ad-200-mk3-bassamp.html

but I concur mounting tubes, especially power tubes on a PCB is asking for trouble, as is mounting pots and input jacks. I'm not anti-PCB, but certain components should be mounted on the chassis.

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I wish the jacks on my Marshall were chassis mounted... I would feel a whole lot better...

[Hemisaurus]

Their not? I thought the JCm 800's were all similar to the above pic.

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It's an 86. The tube sockets are chassis mounted, but the fucking jacks are those plastic 6-lug board mount jacks.




Jesus fuck, the pots are board mounted, too.

[Jake]

Isn't the major telltale that an 800 has PCB-mounted pots/jacks is whether the inputs are horizontal versus vertical?

[Hemisaurus]

That would make sense

I see a lot of Marshall buffs making the distinction of early 80's JCM 800's, I guess they changed the design later in the decade? Funny all the ones I ever worked on must have been older, I thought the real crap didn't start, design-wise until the JCM 900's.

Looks like the re-issues also have vertical jacks, so I'm guessing they abandoned the pots and jacks on a board for those?

[Discö Rice]

It seems like these parts couldn't be THAT expensive. I wonder why building your own amp isn't a more common practice...

[Hemisaurus]

Transformers are pretty expensive.

I think I said in another thread, that I hadn't priced it out, but I wondered if buying a Bugera and gutting it, for the chassis and transformers, would be cheaper than a Weber kit.

A Bugera or Peavey Windsor is about $300-400, the cheapest Equivalent Weber kit is like $450?

[Discö Rice]

So if I had the wiring diagram for say, a thunderverb 200, would building my own be worthwhile, or are all the parts so expensive that it wouldn't matter?

[Hemisaurus]

Depends how accurate you wanted to be, Mercury Magnetics do 200W Orange transformer clones, a Power transformer is $300, and the Output transformer is $315. Don't know if you can order transformers from Orange.

Or you could get a Hammond or Weber transformer set for maybe around $150-200 per transformer, not the same as the Orange, but can be made to work. You can certainly build a clone with a similar tone stack and power section for less than $2000, easier still if you don't want to bother with switchable channels.

Weber even have a kit for a guitar amp with 6 6550/KT-88's rather than 4.

[hayseed]

My stuff.

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[Discö Rice]

Depends how accurate you wanted to be, Mercury Magnetics do 200W Orange transformer clones, a Power transformer is $300, and the Output transformer is $315. Don't know if you can order transformers from Orange.

Or you could get a Hammond or Weber transformer set for maybe around $150-200 per transformer, not the same as the Orange, but can be made to work. You can certainly build a clone with a similar tone stack and power section for less than $2000, easier still if you don't want to bother with switchable channels.

Weber even have a kit for a guitar amp with 6 6550/KT-88's rather than 4.

6, huh? Jesus. Two questions - Does that kit come with a cooling tower? -and- Do I have to get my plutonium 238 on the Black Market or does Weber have a supply?