Let's build an amp! Greg's journey to electrocution

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Yeah, like a normal foot switchable two channel amp.

Sticking a switchable fender clean and a plexi crunch in one box would be many people's dream amp
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I like this idea!

You could just use an a/b switch pedal to switch between inputs.

Anyways, not really necessary unless you plan to gig with it.
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liv_rong wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 7:14 pm I like this idea!

You could just use an a/b switch pedal to switch between inputs.

Anyways, not really necessary unless you plan to gig with it.
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JD01 wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 6:43 pm Yeah, like a normal foot switchable two channel amp.

Sticking a switchable fender clean and a plexi crunch in one box would be many people's dream amp
Yeah well maybe, but I'm not making it foot switchable. That's too much stuff to do.
liv_rong wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 7:14 pm I like this idea!

You could just use an a/b switch pedal to switch between inputs.

Anyways, not really necessary unless you plan to gig with it.
This is the winner! Good thinking. Great idea. I do have an A/B/Y box that is sitting on a shelf doing nothing. So simple yet it never even crossed my mind. :facepalm: :coolstorybro:

This qualifies as "foot switchable" and it requires no electrical tom foolery. Thanks liv!
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Greg_L wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 7:32 pm
JD01 wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 6:43 pm Yeah, like a normal foot switchable two channel amp.

Sticking a switchable fender clean and a plexi crunch in one box would be many people's dream amp
Yeah well maybe, but I'm not making it foot switchable. That's too much stuff to do.
liv_rong wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 7:14 pm I like this idea!

You could just use an a/b switch pedal to switch between inputs.

Anyways, not really necessary unless you plan to gig with it.
This is the winner! Good thinking. Great idea. I do have an A/B/Y box that is sitting on a shelf doing nothing. So simple yet it never even crossed my mind. :facepalm: :coolstorybro:

This qualifies as "foot switchable" and it requires no electrical tom foolery. Thanks liv!
If there were gold stars to hand out [mention]liv_rong[/mention] would be getting four of them.
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WhiskeyJack wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 8:05 pm

If there were gold stars to hand out @liv_rong would be getting four of them.
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Excellent idea to mod the normal, excellent idea to use the A/B switch.
I look at my amps and wonder about unused inputs & unused amps. (I actually gave an old amp to my former place of work. they now have a full drum kit, bass, bass amp, electric guitar and guitar amp, acoustic guitar and an ancient keyboard but no one interested in doing anything with them), - at least with the Marshall they can be "ganged" for another option, (I've wondered about an internal circuit to do that at the flick of a switch but I like the look of the ganging".
I have an old (I bought it 2nd hand in 82) solid state amp that is switchable from guitar to bass that has a dead internal distortion circuit whichI feel should be rejuvenated BUT it sounded awful when it did work. It came with a BIG bass bin - a single 200w @ 4 ohms speaker in an Etone box. It doesn't get much use.
I have an ancient Peavey combo that barely works - I wanted to use the cab & speaker for my Kustom Defender 5H 5watt amp but after hearing the 5 watts through a 4 x 12 the 1 x 10 is not going to happen and it's sounds terrible anyway. I did hook the speaker connectors of my tiny Pignose to the speaker of the Peavey and that sounded good - Pignose tone without the almost obligatory speaker death distortion. I may have to do something more solid that wrapping wire for the future.
I look forward to updates Greg.
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JD01 wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 6:43 pm Yeah, like a normal foot switchable two channel amp.

Sticking a switchable fender clean and a plexi crunch in one box would be many people's dream amp
if I get you to build me one, that's the one I would want
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Lt. Bob wrote: Wed May 22, 2019 12:31 pm
JD01 wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 6:43 pm Yeah, like a normal foot switchable two channel amp.

Sticking a switchable fender clean and a plexi crunch in one box would be many people's dream amp
if I get you to build me one, that's the one I would want
Bob, you really wouldn't want an amp made by me... unless you only want it to be a fairly ugly ornament.
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That sounds awesome!

Regarding the switching, when I was in the band that recently fell apart I was thinking of getting a 4 way foot switch to allow signal to both inputs on 2 different amps as well as getting an effects loop switcher to send a loop to either amp. Since I'm no longer in that band, I don't have to worry about that crap any more. I'm happily using my Princeton with 1 pedal and couldn't be happier.

On another note, my buddy just aquired a Weber JTM 45 kit that he's going to build for me. It's going to be 38 watts, master volume on the back and I'm having him put it in a combo single 12, or perhaps in an old Crate 2x12. I'm really looking forward to it. He just built himself a tweed deluxe that is just an incredible sounding amp.
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Bill L wrote: Wed May 22, 2019 1:39 pm That sounds awesome!

Regarding the switching, when I was in the band that recently fell apart I was thinking of getting a 4 way foot switch to allow signal to both inputs on 2 different amps as well as getting an effects loop switcher to send a loop to either amp. Since I'm no longer in that band, I don't have to worry about that crap any more. I'm happily using my Princeton with 1 pedal and couldn't be happier.

On another note, my buddy just aquired a Weber JTM 45 kit that he's going to build for me. It's going to be 38 watts, master volume on the back and I'm having him put it in a combo single 12, or perhaps in an old Crate 2x12. I'm really looking forward to it. He just built himself a tweed deluxe that is just an incredible sounding amp.
Awesome! That should be a good build. :coolstorybro:
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