My Peavey Renown Solo 160 Watt Solid State Amp

Hi everyone,

I thought I would start yet another thread about my Peavey Renown Solo 160 Watt Solid State guitar amp a great friend of mine gave me, it was originally a 2 X 12 Combo amp but had been made into a head, at some stage this year I'm going to see if I can build a 2 X 12 speaker cab for it so I can use it as a gigging amp.


Here's a pic of the amp as is, the black knobs on it aren't the original ones, but seeing as most of the original ones were missing I decided to put the black ones on as a way of customizing the amp, I think they look great:

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At some stage I might see if I can make a front baffle that fits just under the amp chassis, I was thinking about it last night and thought that the amp would look cool if I covered the front baffle with some coloured cloth of some kind, maybe a Paisley pattern perhaps.

So the amp has two footswitchable channels plus footswitchable reverb, my mate also gave me the footswitch for the amp too.

FWIW I think these may be the coolest DIY cabs for guitar.

I have two of Bill's cabs for bass (a DR and a Titan) and plans to build two Jacks in the near future. Great forum, as well.

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Forgot the link...oops!

http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/XFCabs.html


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Cheers for that fender3x, I've got that website bookmarked and I'm checking it out.

Cool amp head Doc. Yeah I'd get some cloth to cover the big gap at the front. Is the casing looks like a Marshall?
You could even get a custom logo made up. Doceavey hahaha

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Cool amp head Doc. Yeah I'd get some cloth to cover the big gap at the front. Is the casing looks like a Marshall?
You could even get a custom logo made up. Doceavey hahaha

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Hahahaha..., I'd get a few laughs with that mate.

From what I understand, the casing was the original one the amp chassis was in but it got cut down to the size of an amp head, I'm seriously thinking of making a front baffle for it to go just underneath the chassis to close-up that open section, I'm also thinking of going with a Paisley Cloth covering for the front baffle, just for something different, I think it'll look cool.


Last night I did a bit of work on it to attach the reverb tank to the bottom of the cab using four wood screws.

sounds good Doc, cool project, can't wait to hear how loud it is with your twin 12" cab. What sort of speakers you planning to use ?

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sounds good Doc, cool project, can't wait to hear how loud it is with your twin 12" cab. What sort of speakers you planning to use ?

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Not sure what speakers I'm going to use, the originals were Scorpions, but I was thinking that maybe a pair of Eminences might work, I was toying with the idea of building a 4 X 10 cab using four Jensen C10Q speakers, but that would only give me a power handling of only 140 Watts, and my mate reckons a 4 X 10 or 4 X 12 may be a bit too unmanageable when it comes to lifting it up a flight of stairs to get it into my flat, I'll have to do some netsurfing so I can figure out the best speaker to use.

yeah a 4 speaker cab up stairway would be a right pain. The Celestion speakers are very good too

http://celestion.com/

That's a cool old beast of an amp, I like your ideas for personalisation, a couple of celestion greenbacks might go well with it

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That's a cool old beast of an amp, I like your ideas for personalisation, a couple of celestion greenbacks might go well with it

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Whichever speakers I end up using, I need to make sure that the speaker impedance is no less than 4 Ohms, and that the power handling is at least 160 Watts or greater, will a pair of Celestion Greenbacks handle that much power?, also I'm wondering how much that'll cost me all up.

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yeah a 4 speaker cab up stairway would be a right pain. The Celestion speakers are very good too

http://celestion.com/

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Celestions are supposed to be the bee's knees, I've heard nothing but good things about Celestions.


Last night I also managed to find four rubber feet to attach to the underside of the amp case.

same here Doc I have only heard good things about Celestions.
Might be a cheaper option to ask your local music store to keep an eye out for any old speaker cabs with Celestions maybe a trade in

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Forgot the link...oops!

http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/XFCabs.html


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Okay, so finish EXA, FrankenWashie, SV-1 and Scratchbuild RG Baritone, then build GAS mandated rack, then buy decent head then build XF cab. next 2 years activities SORTED!

haha good one Franken, plus what about the 10-20 other side projects and PBG sales - might need more than 2 years mate !

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haha good one Franken, plus what about the 10-20 other side projects and PBG sales - might need more than 2 years mate !

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I hope there's not a sale soon, I already have one kit still in box untouched and several lengths of nice timber lying around in transformative states approaching guitardom, I don't think I need to add to that. Yet.

Back on topic, I am familiar with Celestion, will be very interested to see how your project pans out Doc!

Hey Franken (Doc seems to attract thread jackers hahaha) I think there maybe an August PBG sale for it's 4th birthday but will wait for Ads to announce it, I have no idea if he is but it's a hunch !

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Hey Franken (Doc seems to attract thread jackers hahaha) I think there maybe an August PBG sale for it's 4th birthday but will wait for Ads to announce it, I have no idea if he is but it's a hunch !

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Haha...there's not a whole lot I can do about the thread-jacking so I might as well just accept it, it's all good anyway.

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Haha...there's not a whole lot I can do about the thread-jacking so I might as well just accept it, it's all good anyway.

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I had a thought with your Baffle/cover, you could always get a neutral coloured fabric and get artistic with it for a really personalised effect.

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I had a thought with your Baffle/cover, you could always get a neutral coloured fabric and get artistic with it for a really personalised effect.

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I suppose I could do that as an alternative option.

as long as you have a massive Doc-eavey logo on the front Doc should look uber cool

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as long as you have a massive Doc-eavey logo on the front Doc should look uber cool

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Hahahahahaha....if I do put that on my Renown amp then people are going to think I have a massive ego, and we don't want that now, do we?.....hahahahaha...., last thing I want is my ego to run rampant...lol.

ahha nah but Doc it's like a headstock logo mate, tell people that YOU built it, well part of it hahah

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ahha nah but Doc it's like a headstock logo mate, tell people that YOU built it, well part of it hahah

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That's a good point, I'll have to do some serious ummmmm-ing and ahhhhhh-ing about it.

your logo could also have a stethoscope picture to show that you are THE Doc hahha

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your logo could also have a stethoscope picture to show that you are THE Doc hahha

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The question is....Doctor Who?......hahahahaha....sorry, couldn't resist it so I just had to throw that one in mate.

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your logo could also have a stethoscope picture to show that you are THE Doc hahha

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I like it! Who can graphic design that? We need to make that happen.

haha good one Doc, I reckon Dedman can do the graphics for a Doctor Who logo with a stethoscope

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haha good one Doc, I reckon Dedman can do the graphics for a Doctor Who logo with a stethoscope

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Maybe it could be my new forum avatar, now there's an intriguing idea.


Keeping in mind that I absolutely point-blank refuse to take myself seriously anyway mind you.

sounds good Doc, either a Dr Who or Where's Wally (Doc) avatar would be cool

could paintshop your face over Tom Baker's head haha

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sounds good Doc, either a Dr Who or Where's Wally (Doc) avatar would be cool

could paintshop your face over Tom Baker's head haha

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Hahahahahaha....good one Wokka.

Dr????
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Would you like a jelly baby? Lol.

bwhahah nice paintshop there Dedman !

Hey Doc I would change that Dr Doc pic to your avatar in a heartbeat !

great Doc pic, now you realise that you have to make the amp blue and look like the TARDIS...

http://nerdapproved.com/wp-content/u...tardis-amp.jpg

LOL good one Stan,I'd actually buy that LOL

I can see I'm never going to hear the end of this Dr Who business.....lol.

You build many cool things , you can be Dr What , or is that Watt...

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You build many cool things , you can be Dr What , or is that Watt...

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Or I could be Dr When, Where, Why, How, etc, my favorite would have to be Dr Is he on this planet, or is he off with the fairys......hahahahaha.

Haha, maybe Dr ?