Ok, I probably shouldn't use a quote from a TV show that I haven't watched in years to introduce myself but what's done is done. No going back now!
Anyway. a little about me. I'm currently living in eastern New Mexico, basically west Texas, was happily living in San Diego but my fiancé up and got accepted to graduate school here and not there so we're here for ~2 years.
I'm a photographer by trade, well, I was until we moved. I've been refubning/ fixing vintage camera gear (mostly lenses and film cameras) on the side to help pay for my personal film habit.
Since we moved I have finally finished a project that I started way back in HS, a point to point 5F1 scratch build into a mid-80s Marshall SS 1x12 combo. Now that that has been finished and working well, I'm looking to a few more while I'm stuck out here on the prairie.
1) Pull the 5F1 build out, stick it into another smaller chassis I have since acquired and insert parallel 12AU7 for minimal volume jamming. Switching on the fly without pulling tubes would be ideal but I'm not sure if my skills are up to that.
2) Use the trannies from a beater Stromberg Carlson Signet 22 in the Marshall combo and build an 18W November/JCM800/Stout/Orange front end with a PPIMV or VVR. When I was playing out, I had a JCM800 version of the 1959 circuit and liked it. Didn't like the TSL100 I had for a while nearly as much until it was nearly cranked, and I really liked the Rockerverb 50 (6V6) I had with a Splawn cab. I don't play as heavy of music now but I still like that thick Orange or earlier Marshall tone.
2a) Figure out what to do with the Signet 22 chassis. I would also like to build a reverb at some point so maybe start on that?
3) Do a bit of tweaking to optimize my already changed up '66 Bandmaster. It was nearly all replaced before I bought it in Minneapolis in '02 or thereabouts. Mostly Orange drops now, I'd like to change up voicing for one channel and slow down the vibe, no drilling of course as it hasn't been abused or modded and I don't intend to start. Also, I want to either find a proper black tolex cab for it or build one. Been playing it through the Marshall 1x12 since I sold the drip edge 2x15 cab I had for it at one point. (Rockerverb through the Splawn with Bandmaster through 2x15 was the best combination I've ever given part of my hearing to!)
I finally joined here by prompt of a member that saw a comment I made on a YouTube video which walked through some mods that the author did for a customer's Bassman head.
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