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Valve amplifiers only, ie Valve pre-amp and power-amp stages.. Big (or small!) glowing bottles a-plenty please..

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Beavis, my 60w custom built head.

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Laney VC30 (4xEL84) 2x10 with lovely Jensen speakers.

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Ashton BV300H Stack. 6 x KT88 and Celestion Loaded cabs.

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Linear L30 Stack. 2 x EL34 and Goodmans Loaded 12" cabs.

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Leak Stereo 20. Really sweet sounding peice of kit..

So bring 'em on, big small or indifferent, from Ampeg and Boogie through to Dr Z and all in between.


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Only got the one............ haven't any gut shots but will do when it gets worked on - hopefully soon. It's as I bought it except for a couple of replacement pre-amp valves & I had a Bulgin put back in - it had some kind of multi-socket connection when I got it.

Loving your Ashton - never seen one of those before!!!!



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here are a couple my old laney aor 50 great amp had to sell it due to lack of funds[attachment=130684:laney aor.JPG]

and second is this 1974 carlsbro tc60 i picked this up a couple of months ago
it was advertised as faulty but on arrival the seller informed me it was the output jack on his guitar that was at fault
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I had a Sound City 120 but it was the 'Energizer 120' which was simply a power amp unit. With it's 6 x EL34 and huge transformers, it was massively powerful and was capable of hurting speakers. A true monster! I'd love to try your amp, doug, looks to be a lovely example..

Stu, shame you had to sell the Laney but that Carlsboro looks a lovely (and no doubt heavy) little monster..

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Thanks for the offer, I might well take you up on that! ;)

Interesting that the chassis is configured different than mine was. Your valves looks to be 'in a row' whereas mine was '3 + 3'..

I'm gonna take some pics and get some more chassis / valve shots this afternoon.

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Little bottles with the big ones at the back. Note the laminations of the output transformer and the driver tube on the right..

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Big bottles!

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They're all labelled on this photo!

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Old-skool GZ34 in the ST20..

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[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1363960394' post='2020171']
Thanks for the offer, I might well take you up on that! ;)

Interesting that the chassis is configured different than mine was. Your valves looks to be 'in a row' whereas mine was '3 + 3'..

I'm gonna take some pics and get some more chassis / valve shots this afternoon.
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Enegergizer slaves were in a totally different box to the 120 PAs and heads, its the size of the 50w boxes, and bit more point to point going on inside. Without a preamp, you can put everything closer together without noise worries.

Here's my rig, and guitar rig, correctly proportioned:
[IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1389.jpg[/IMG]

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Red Iron 100W
A bit of an odd one, I had this made by Red Iron (Texas) in 2005. It originally had a different wooden case, which I decided I didn't like, so I made my own.
A mains transformer went pop around 2009, so I took it to John Chambers (Champ Electronics, Nottingham) where he made a replacement one (the silver one in the middle) and some other tweaks while he had it on the bench.
It has 2 x 6SL7s (Tung Sol) and 2 x KT88s (JJ) and I love the tone

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[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1363953827' post='2020027']
Only got the one............ haven't any gut shots but will do when it gets worked on - hopefully soon. It's as I bought it except for a couple of replacement pre-amp valves & I had a Bulgin put back in - it had some kind of multi-socket connection when I got it.

Loving your Ashton - never seen one of those before!!!!




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That is something special , for sure.

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Roland, I read about your amp on Johns site! Fantastic! :D

Thanks for the S/C info Mr F. Nice Burmans by the way, what are they a modded bassman type design?

Real nice compact setup with that Matamp although I bet it still roars! :lol:

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[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1363995956' post='2020876']
Thanks for the S/C info Mr F. Nice Burmans by the way, what are they a modded bassman type design?
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Pretty much their own thing. The 3 knob channel has a Fender type tone stack with a fixed mid, the gain channel has an active mid which is a separate circuit to the bass and treble controls, the 3 stage gain control gives massive scope for colours of gain, and its without noise even with silly distortion. Much more a no expense spared sort of design and build rather than the cheapest end of good enough like Fender.

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[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1364007739' post='2020929']
Pretty much their own thing. The 3 knob channel has a Fender type tone stack with a fixed mid, the gain channel has an active mid which is a separate circuit to the bass and treble controls, the 3 stage gain control gives massive scope for colours of gain, and its without noise even with silly distortion. Much more a no expense spared sort of design and build rather than the cheapest end of good enough like Fender.
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Good to know, cheers for that! B)

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  • 2 weeks later...

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1363953827' post='2020027']
Only got the one............ haven't any gut shots but will do when it gets worked on - hopefully soon. It's as I bought it except for a couple of replacement pre-amp valves & I had a Bulgin put back in - it had some kind of multi-socket connection when I got it.

Loving your Ashton - never seen one of those before!!!!




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If I ever went back to back breaking gear, one of these would be the cause.

'NOD No.1' - didn't come from Birmingham did it?

>Edit< oh, just see the top!

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[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1365438138' post='2039638']
'NOD No.1' - didn't come from Birmingham did it?

>Edit< oh, just see the top!
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Yeah, there's 3 of them turned up so far - which means there's another six ex-Slade 200's out there somewhere.

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Since a couple of guitar amps have snuck in, I thought I'd stick up a couple of pictures of my home built job. It's based on a Fender Princeton Reverb - it does about 15 watts with a pair of 6v6s, and is in a birch ply cabinet which I tried to make as light as possible. My lead dress isn't up to the standards of the really good stuff like Hiwatt yet, but it works just fine.

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