NAD: Crazy AC15 thingy

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All done ...

Made a weird head cab last week as I had a couple of hours spare. Have just put the finishing touches on it.

AC15 type circuit - EF86 channel with rotary tone selector, 3-position bright and boost selector switches. 12Ax7 Top-boost channel, both into master volume and tone cut controls. 

Sounds ace. Especially like the EF86 channel - tons of chime - exactly what I wanted. Top-boost channel is raucous and does that EL84 grind really well. 

Whole thing is fantastically loud and punchy too.

Oh and it lights up and looks all pretty and stuff

p90fool

Love it!

JezWynd

Magic.

ThePrettyDamned

Same circuit as in mine?

If so, this is awesome! 

menamestom

Ace.  Looks like a Jawa Sandwalker when it’s lit up.  

dindude

Looks awesome, top job!

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ThePrettyDamned said:

Same circuit as in mine?

If so, this is awesome! 

Yeah. Same EF86 channel plus the added top boost channel :-)

ThePrettyDamned

4114Effects said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Same circuit as in mine?

If so, this is awesome! 

Yeah. Same EF86 channel plus the added top boost channel :-)

Nice. 

Mine has a 12ax7 boost circuit but I'm not sure if it's a separate channel - it certainly is boosted though! Amazing how crunchy it gets. 

thermionic

No good for resting your pint on it, is it though?

bbill335

Looks fab Dan, offset knobs was the way to go. 

Bridgehouse

Oh I'd so love a bass head that looked like that. With a blue light. Yes, a blue light. 

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Bridgehouse said:

Oh I'd so love a bass head that looked like that. With a blue light. Yes, a blue light. 

Always fancied building a valve bass head. With the transformers required it would weigh roughly a tonne though.

Bridgehouse

4114Effects said:

Bridgehouse said:

Oh I'd so love a bass head that looked like that. With a blue light. Yes, a blue light. 

Always fancied building a valve bass head. With the transformers required it would weigh roughly a tonne though.

Yeah, I bet

Now if you ever fancied a cheap SVT clone to work on.....

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Bridgehouse said:

4114Effects said:

Bridgehouse said:

Oh I'd so love a bass head that looked like that. With a blue light. Yes, a blue light. 

Always fancied building a valve bass head. With the transformers required it would weigh roughly a tonne though.

Yeah, I bet

Now if you ever fancied a cheap SVT clone to work on.....

Huh? Sounds interesting, PM me

IvisonGuitars

I need to hear this!!

impmann

That looks ace.

ICBM

That's one of the most original designs I've ever seen for an amp, and it looks brilliant . Just when you thought nearly everything had been done!

horsehead

Looks awesome

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ICBM said:

That's one of the most original designs I've ever seen for an amp, and it looks brilliant . Just when you thought nearly everything had been done!

And you don't even like EF86 channels ... lol

ICBM

4114Effects said:

ICBM said:

That's one of the most original designs I've ever seen for an amp, and it looks brilliant . Just when you thought nearly everything had been done!

And you don't even like EF86 channels ... lol

I said it *looks* brilliant. I didn't say I'd like the sound of it .

No doubt the Top Boost channel will sound excellent. I'm sure the EF86 channel is useful for something, like running an mp3 player into when you're learning a song.





The styling is really great - and the sloping top is probably just steep enough to put off anyone from putting a drink on it, while not being unusable for a capo or something.

ThePrettyDamned

@4114Effects how hard would it be to add the 12ax7 channel to mine? It does have a 12ax7 boost in it, but this amp looks absolutely amazing.

In fact, trade you back?