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Title: Carr Impala Help!
Post by: Travis8 on December 23, 2021, 08:54:19 am
Hi everyone!

I wanna build a guitar amp with similar sound of Carr Impala, wich circuit is based?


Could I use a existing kit of some TAD or tubetown??

Thanks you all for helping me
Title: Re: Carr Impala Help!
Post by: Travis8 on December 23, 2021, 08:59:51 am
I read carr impala is BF bassman AB165, could I make the 5F6A build sound like AB165 or the deluxe reverb 22 sound like AB165 modding vintage channel??

Thanks
Title: Re: Carr Impala Help!
Post by: jordan86 on December 23, 2021, 09:01:07 am
I don’t know TAD or tubetown offerings but some sort of Super reverb kit would probably be closest thing. I don’t know much about the carr either but saw they mention a blackface Bassman on their site. But that amp never had reverb to my knowledge so you won’t find that kit.
Title: Re: Carr Impala Help!
Post by: jordan86 on December 23, 2021, 09:07:37 am
The 5f6a is a pretty different circuit from the AB165. Compare the AB165 to a Super Reverb AB763. More similar. The Super is probably closest to the Carr but it is a complex 2 channel build.

Doug has a single channel version, but you won’t get a clean simple kit if that’s what your after.

If you’re in the discovery phase still The Tone Geek and Rob Robinette has some good reading on modding the AB763 circuit.
Title: Re: Carr Impala Help!
Post by: Travis8 on December 23, 2021, 09:12:47 am
The 5f6a is a pretty different circuit from the AB165. Compare the AB165 to a Super Reverb AB763. More similar. The Super is probably closest to the Carr but it is a complex 2 channel build.

Doug has a single channel version, but you won’t get a clean simple kit if that’s what your after.

If you’re in the discovery phase still The Tone Geek and Rob Robinette has some good reading on modding the AB763 circuit.

I could build the super reverb without any trouble, the tone will be similar?

Could I make it work fine with 1x12 or 2x12? Thanks :)
Title: Re: Carr Impala Help!
Post by: Travis8 on December 23, 2021, 09:16:24 am
AB763 is the same circuit in Blackface 22 watts builds?
Title: Re: Carr Impala Help!
Post by: sluckey on December 23, 2021, 10:04:46 am
yes