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| Pile-o-amps. See current rack photo with newest goodies -> | The current rack setup |
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| My 1966 Fender Vibrolux Reverb | My recording area |
| My Guitars | ||||
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| Ibanez JS1200CA | Bastard Strat 1 | Bastard Strat 2 | Ibanez Bass | Tacoma Road King |
| My newest Guitar is the red Ibanez JS1200CA. Both humbuckers can be switched to single coils. Both pots are pull pots with switches. It came with Tele style chrome knurled knobs. I changed the knobs to black numbered rubber gripped knobs. | ||||
| Both of the Strats are highly modified. They have stock Fender single coil pickups in the neck and middle. They both have a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck full sized humbucker in the bridge position. The humbuckers can be switched into a high powered single coil by flipping a small toggle switch below the volume control. There is only one volume control and no tone controls on both guitars. Both guitars also have a 500p cap soldered across the volume control so that when you turn down the volume the tone cleans up and stays bright and clear. | ||||
| The red Ibanez Bass is what I use to record the tunes. It's a cheapo Bass but it records and plays and sounds just fine. | ||||
| The Acoustic is my Tacoma Road King. It's a great sounding guitar, but it seems to get better and better sounding with age. | ||||
| You can hear these guitars in action on this page Sound clips page | ||||
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05/2007 update on Bastard Strat #2 - I Made this guitar into a hybrid 7 string with only 6 strings.
I removed the fender style tremolo bar from the old Fender style bridge. I pulled the bridge down hard to the body by adding 5 tremolo springs, no float at all on the bridge. I then Added a .059 string where the big E string is. I Shifted the other strings one place down the line and removed the normal high E string. I filed the nut grooves for the bigger strings. The string gauges are now .059w, .048w, .038w, .028w, 18, 14 It is tuned B, E, A, D, F#, B This guitar has a mucho heavy tone now and it's a blast to use for rhythm parts. |
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| AB763 amp project | |||
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| Update: 10/02/2007. I added a faceplate to the amp and named it Super Vibrolux | |||
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This used to be a 1966 Deluxe Reverb chassis. I purchased the chassis and cabinet as part of a large
Fender junk pile deal. The chassis had a Twin Reverb power transformer in it when I bought it and it was pretty hacked up. The cabinet was
bare wood. I made a new 2 x 10 baffle board because I like the sound of 10 inch speakers in Fender type amps. I installed a Hoffman AB763 reverb combo circuit board in the chassis. I added a dwell control to the reverb and it has the normal reverb mix control found on all Fender AB763 combo's. It has power tube tremolo, not opto tremolo. I deleted channel one from the AB763 circuit board. Who uses channel one? Then I moved all the controls to the left. The controls starting from the left are ( Volume, Dwell, Mix --- Treble, Mid, Bass, Speed, Intensity ) The baffle is a 2 x 10 speaker arrangement so this amp is now closer to a Vibrolux Reverb than a Deluxe reverb. It has a 022798 power transformer, which is the Super Reverb/Pro reverb power transformer so it has more power than a Vibrolux Reverb. It is Probably around 40 something watts. The output transformer is a Hoffman H50WO, these trannies are not available any more. I have a rotary impedance selector on the back so I can use different cabinets or two cabinets at once. The filter caps are all inside along the front edge, there is no cap can. I am using EH6L6 power tubes and the amp sounds very good. I have also used EH6V6's in the amp but I needed more over head for the surf tune stuff I do. I had Mojo re-cover the cabinet and add grille cloth to the custom 2 x 10 baffle board. The speakers are new Jensen C10Q's. I don't have a face plate for the amp because all the functions are not stock or in a stock location. You can hear this amp on this page. Sound clips 1 page |
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