My Peavey Renown Solo 160 Watt Solid State Amp

[DrNomis_44]

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:




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.

[fender3x]

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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[fender3x]

Forgot the link...oops!

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


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[DrNomis_44]

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

[wokkaboy]

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

[DrNomis_44]

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

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.

[wokkaboy]

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 ?

[DrNomis_44]

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 ?

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.

[wokkaboy]

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

http://celestion.com/

[stan]

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