The Amp Garage

muchxs wrote: Steve Liberty (sliberty, Freedom Amps) builds some killer single ended 'Wrecks.

Look at the Derailment. It's not exactly what you want but it's in the same ballpark.

Yes, I think the Derailment is close to what I am looking for.

there is a marshallized champ type thing called the BEAST.. you can find the info and sound clips on SEWATT and 18watt.com.. i think Mark Huss has some clips somewhere too. http://www.sewatt.com/node/13360 Thanks for the link. I will look around a bit more on SEWATT. The Beast is interesting but, b...

I should probably point out that my Vibrochamp is actually a Ceriatone kit that I had built, and it is in a pretty big combo cab with a Celestion G12H. (It is still a head cab style amp chassis though). I can switch for other 12" speakers that I have as well, or just use the head with a different sp...

Hi, I have a BF Vibrochamp clone, and will likely try building an express or liverpool some day, but for now, I am wondering about using my vibrochamp's stuff to change it into something a bit more TW-ish. Has anyone had any thoughts on this before? These are my questions: Is there some sort of simp...

Hi, I have a BF Vibrochamp clone, and will likely try building an express or liverpool some day, but for now, I am wondering out using my vibrochamp's stuff to change it into something a bit more TW-ish. Has anyone had any thoughts on this before? These are my questions: Is there some sort of simple...

I'm sure that my two sm-57s that I got on ebay about 6 months ago are both fakes. I suspected it at the time when I saw the lettering was a sticker. I tried the mic out originally as a vocal mic and was less than impressed with the sound, before using it exclusively for instrument miking. The link o...

Alright. I really appreciate this. I will make a one-piece solid back, knowing that if some sort of porting is needed in the future, I can do the hole in the front Baffle with a tube going back (realizing it may be a lot of experimenting to find the right length to cut the tube). The great thing abo...

Awesome! Thanks!
Do you ever play around with the complexities of porting? Or do you think that I would be ok if I make 2 back panels for the cab; one being 1/4 of the back and the other being 3/4 or the back and choosing whether to use one or both based on how it sounds?

Using 3/4" birch Ply wood, I'm gonna stick my neck way out here and say......if you want light weight, and good tone, why not do the regular thing and use pine? I "think" I can hear the difference between a pine cab and a ply cab. The pine sounds SO much better in a guitar cabinet. YMMV Dan I've he...

Thank you Casey, I appreciate you sharing your expertise. I think you have a good grasp of what I am trying to do. So, is there an optimum interior volume(space) that I should be sure to stay above? Using 3/4" birch Ply wood, I am thinking of matching the length of my combo amp, which is about 28 1/...

hmm, ya, I am thinking about doing some sort of convertible back to figure out what I want. I kind of wish that porting was easy enough to add afterwards, but it sounds like a real science, and not just about cutting a hole in the back of the cab. The detuned cab sounds like a neat idea, that I have...

I've decided to build my own 2x12 closed back cab (I think). I am struggling over dimensions and whether I want porting or perhaps only a 3/4 back. This is actually a result of wanting a 2x12 cab for my old 100W Traynor Amp Head after having spare wood and Vinyl from building an open back combo amp ...

Oh really? so you run them in series instead of parallel? I haven't tried that yet. I just figured I would want the tighter sound of parallel.

Great guys! Thanks for all your help. This was most helpful. I haven't been here in a while but now I'm back. I did go ahead and choose a G12H to go with the blue and I am happy with it. My cabinet is almost finished to hold these with my amp that I built. While I wait for the cabinet I have played ...

OK Thanks. I'll look into those. I'm not sure if I am understanding this correctly, but I get the idea about the overly mismatched wattages being bad in this case perhaps because it is a 30watt amp and if somehow the 15watt Blue ends up taking in more than half the power somehow if the speakers are ...