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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: mresistor on March 23, 2015, 01:04:32 pm

Title: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: mresistor on March 23, 2015, 01:04:32 pm: I'm making a head cabinet for the Single Channel Deluxe Reverb amp I made and the chassis mounts on the floor of the box. I've been contemplating where to place the reverb pan. My thought is either up on the front panel or underneath the top upside down. Anyone every mount one on its side or upside down?
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: sluckey on March 23, 2015, 01:08:00 pm: (http://home.comcast.net/~seluckey/amps/sunn/sunn_02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: mresistor on March 23, 2015, 01:27:17 pm: Just what I needed to know, I thought it would be OK to hang it like that. Thanks Sluckey. What amp is that?
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: mresistor on March 23, 2015, 01:34:28 pm: OK Sunn Scepter with 6550's . Nice ! Is that a Raytheon potato masher?
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: sluckey on March 23, 2015, 03:01:00 pm: Quote
Is that a Raytheon potato masher?
yes.

Another option is to put the tank on the front panel like the Bandmaster Reverb head or Dual Showman Reverb.
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: John on March 23, 2015, 04:26:53 pm: Well, I chuckled when I saw the picture. In researching (googling all over the place) where to place a tank in that amp I'm working on, I read so many times "as far from the transformers as possible!"

So, I guess it's really not that critical, eh? :icon_biggrin:
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: sluckey on March 23, 2015, 04:38:03 pm: Just keep the low level, sensitive tank output end away from the PT.
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: kagliostro on March 23, 2015, 04:57:10 pm: I don't remember well, but seems to me that for that kind of montage there is a specified Tank, a tank adapt to be mounted on the bottom if I remember well, is different

give a look to Accutronics site as to be sure about

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If you already have a Tank that is to be mounted on the bottom, you can adopt the same trick used by Vox, look here

(http://www.voxshowroom.com/ct/amp/uk/ac30srt/rear_open12.jpg)

There is a wood panel under the chassis and the Tank is installed under it

However this isn't the best install position for the reverb, you can find it on the Accutronisc site

and it is this (on the back of the front panel on your amp ?)

(http://www.accutronicsreverb.com/design/default/images/sub_05/mountv.jpg)

K
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: John on March 23, 2015, 07:40:10 pm: Quote from: sluckey on March 23, 2015, 04:38:03 pm
Just keep the low level, sensitive tank output end away from the PT.

Gotcha, thanks!
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: mresistor on March 24, 2015, 07:23:30 am: Kagliostro - that's a pretty interesting amp head. What Vox is it? I've never seen anything like it. Is it a 1965 Vox AC30 Super Twin Reverb Trapazoid Head Top Boost. Just a guess... ;-)
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: kagliostro on March 24, 2015, 11:25:08 am: Yes

http://www.voxshowroom.com/uk/amp/ac30srt_hood.html (http://www.voxshowroom.com/uk/amp/ac30srt_hood.html)

K
Title: Re: Mounting reverb pan in tubes up head cabinet.
Post by: super&plexi on March 25, 2015, 10:09:46 am: Hey just for 'complete-ness' (meaning A.D.D types) I've mounted regular super r-twin type pans upside down from top, & even on sides vertically, but Accutronics does suggest & make a pan specifically for Each position,. So maybe optimum results won't be realized, or longevity... But what the hey! It's up to you, I might just follow Ed's advice and put a bag on it...they really help!