Hi Everyone, I thought I would start a thread about a Valve Guitar Amplifier Head I've been working on since I was working as an apprentice Fitter and Machinist in my Dad's workshop back in 1997 (it was a 3-year apprenticeship) before I moved from Kununurra to Darwin in 2000, anyway, the Amplifier itself started out as a Mesa/Boogie Mk I and Marshall Super Lead 50 Hybrid, the preamp was the Mk I circuit and the power amp was the typical 50 Watt Marshall power amp design, but I could never get it to sound good in both the clean or overdriven modes, I could get the clean sound to have a good tone but the overdrive sound always lacked tonality no matter how I set the tone controls, it turned out to be due to where Mesa/Boogie put the tone controls in the preamp circuit.
I decided to rebuild the amp so that it was like a Soldano SLO 100, I've had to shelve the project for a while so I could put my money towards other things, but decided to post a pic of the amp in it's current state just in case you're interested in checking it out, here's a pic of the amp "as is":
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