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Now, the next amp, mark you - the NEXT amp - well, that will be perfect!
Shall I buy a 8 or 16Ohm Greenback for it?
I've been testing it with an 8Ohm V30, but I'm building it for a family member who wants a Greenback.
OT has outs for 4, 8 & 16. I doubt it will ever be rehoused or used with an extension cab.
looking good, where did you get the pine, it looks fairly knot free and unwarped?
Blue sparks. Funny smell.
I'm ashamed to have made such a careless and dangerous mistake. Sobering.
I reconnected everything properly but the pots didn't work any more. Re-ordered pots from Modulus on Friday afternoon and they arrived on Saturday, which was cool!
I installed them last night but it was too late for a trial. Fingers crossed it will work when I get home from work.
Salt & Pepper cloth seems appropriate for an 18 Watter.
The snakeskin tolex wouldn't be my choice, but I'm making this for someone else!
The snakeskin pattern has a grain to it so I'm trying to keep it running top to bottom on the sides and side to side on the top, bottom, front and back.
Next job - gluing, trimming and watching YouTube tutorials on how to do corners!
I played it through a V30 in a combo I built a couple of years back. It will eventually go through a Greenback.
It sounds really nice. Great cleans - better than I expected. And the trem has a really deep throb that you don't really get from a trem pedal.
I had a couple of issues with noise. There was a fizzy characteristic and @Modulus_Amps recommended a conjunctive filter.
The fizziness actually died down after a few hours use, so I added the conjunctive filter on a switch. It takes out some fizz at high gain, but does dull the sound slightly on some pickup setting. I prefer the 'alive' sound I get without the filter, but it's good o have it on a switch.
The other problem was a loud ticking along with the tremolo. Again @Modulus_Amps was a great help. I hadn't used shielded cable for a couple of crucial connections around the trem valve. I swapped the leads out and moved them about a bit, and now it's fine!
It sounded nice through the V30, but I far prefer the Greenback. It just achieves so much more clarity in the upper mid/top end - but nice clarity without any harshness.
The V30 had a bit of a midrange honk, which was not unpleasant but kind of idiosyncratic. I was worried that the amp might lack 'cut', but then when I hooked it up to the Greenback, it all made a lot more sense.
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