The Amp Garage

Hi Jim. Is your chassis the standard size for an Express? The stack should fit between the power tranny and the preamp board. I used a 50/50 and a 40/20/20/20 cap cans on my newest Express. You could also use a little board and some standoffs to hold the caps. I don’t know how authentic you want to ...

That’s a beaut Ryan, great job!

Hiya. Google “trainwreck express gut shots” you can see pictures and go from there. If your board isn’t to wide you should be good. Short wire runs are important to keep hiss low.
I think my board was 2 1/4 inches wide
Good luck..
Joe

Nice Marcus! - love the bassy sound.
I just built a Princeton Reverb too a month ago (head unit), and love it. I'm using it with a Texas Heat Speaker for now
.. I gotta get me one of those Ditto loopers.

I finished my Liverpool last week and, it has too much gain. I didn’t think I would ever say that but It sounds awesome on 2 and my guitars on 3 or so, but anything after that ....whoa... I have some work to do on it, I put In a MV but it sucks...it’s ok on my attenuator but I still need to tweak it...

Hey Mark: its nice to see your first Rocket do so well. If the guy didn't spill on it, it would have been out there still doing its job.
good stuff

When I started building , I think I built a lightning and didn’t like it. So I went and built an Express from junk I had. The amp ended up sounding like junk. I built a lot of amps since then, and a few months ago, I did an Express round 2. I should post my build but I never got around to it. But th...

Dave for moderator ++1 !

Good to hear that it worked out, Ryan

This is a very nice build, beautiful cabinet.

What is a 50 BMG?

Good to hear, been a fan of his for a long time
thanks for sharing.

Good luck with your build.
What size is the chassis?
The way Steve laid out his components is top notch, if you can imitate that you would be well off.
Or look at other pictures of Marshall type amps to get an idea.
Yeah pictures will be good...
Peace.

sluckey wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:18 pm I took my webesite down. Permanently.

How come Steve?
I used your site a lot to help me out...

good to know you found the trouble - did you see sluckeys comment about the cathode bias resistor was also backwards?

by sluckey » Wed Sep 25, 2019 9:06 pm
The bypass cap on the output tubes is also connected backwards.

lord preset wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 12:04 am The Fretting and Staring ™ phase has already paid dividends. I was staring at the filter caps and it occurred to me that they would be more effective if they were connected to something.

LOL