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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: isaac_teller on September 13, 2023, 07:39:04 am

Title: Sluckeys Rockola
Post by: isaac_teller on September 13, 2023, 07:39:04 am

Hello. By chance does anyone have a video clip of this amp in action? Thank you.
http://www.sluckeyamps.com/rocky/rocky.htm

Title: Re: Sluckeys Rockola
Post by: sluckey on September 13, 2023, 07:56:38 am

That's a one of a kind amp. I don't have any videos.

Title: Re: Sluckeys Rockola
Post by: isaac_teller on September 13, 2023, 08:00:07 am

OK. Thanx. I'll go by the description in the info page.

Title: Re: Sluckeys Rockola
Post by: sluckey on September 13, 2023, 08:33:45 am

This amp sounds good as is but if I was doing this conversion today, I would put an Ampeg B15 preamp in it rather than the Fender preamp. Why??? Because the tube lineup looks more like a B15, but mainly, because those potted transformers just have that cool B15 look.

So, what project do you have in mind? A conversion? A scratch build? Something else?

Title: Re: Sluckeys Rockola
Post by: isaac_teller on September 13, 2023, 08:52:31 am

I was thinking of a scratch build with full wave bridge instead of rectifier. Also adding a master volume and using a Russian 6N6P instead of a 6SN7. I've used them in previous builds and they add punch and bottom end.

Title: Re: Sluckeys Rockola
Post by: shooter on September 13, 2023, 09:29:50 am

this was my take on Sluckey's rockola.  got pretty good reviews from the guitarists, made it into the wild

Title: Re: Sluckeys Rockola
Post by: bmccowan on September 13, 2023, 12:45:48 pm

I like to convert old octal PAs and mono HiFi amps.
Here is an amp I built on an abandoned Knight HiFi kit. Its kind of similar to the Rocky, but with 6V6s. It has an Ampeg inspired preamp so I call it Peggy Knight. (makes my future look so bright)
I have a 6SL7 in V1 and 6SN7 in V2, and a raw control (also something I got from Sluckey) that works great.