Going through the parts and figuring out what I’m missing…

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I’m missing an 820? resistor along with two bright switches :(

Here’s the cab:

Just to note, this is a 2x12 and NOT the traditional 4x10.  I chose this configuration as I wanted to achieve some different dynamics.  By the way, I chose a dogbone-style handle haha.

Next part: assembly...

As mentioned from a past article, I’ve been spending the past few months figuring out what I wanted to have as my next major music equipment.  With the money I got from the holidays (btw thank you, everyone!), I decided a few months ago to get a Morgan Monroe M-30.  However, that didn’t work out too well, so I returned it.  It was a fantastic  looking guitar (nothing like it), but it was not something I was feeling.

I realized that I was done fooling around with virtual amplification, so I went to get the real thing.  This is what I got in the mail:

This is a Ted Weber 6A40 amplifier kit, most commonly referred to as the Fender Super Reverb.  It arrived at my place this afternoon, and I’ll be building this over the spring break.  I hope to log my amplifier build as I go.

I won’t be able to start the build until I head back north, but here is the bill of materials that I’ll be faced with:

The great thing about this list is that I got a free footswitch!  I never expected that to be in the contents (it’s not even checked off by them on the bill!) so I’m glad to have it around.

I’m so eager to start this build already.  I will hopefully post some more pictures of my little big project with my brother’s Canon DSLR early next week.

In the meantime, I need to load up on some TV shows and movies that I’ve been missing.  Anyone recommend anything to watch?

(notetoself: make new category)

Distortion Effects:

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Clean:

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Excuse the mastering as I don’t have the proper cans to mix the sound properly.  This was ALL done through my computer, so no real amplifier.  For the clean, I used Guitar Tool Rack as my amp modeler with the clean amplifier settings, Korg MDE-X as my reverb, and a D82 Sonic Maximizer to redefine the output.  For the distortion effects, I added a Microsynth by rfitz (which is hard to find, good luck!), a Cry-Q Equalizer, Two TS’ Secret Overdrives back to back. with a reverse-delay pedal used in GTR to achieve the stereo warping sound.

I wanted to post these to show the possibilities that I have with the wide range of VSTs around the interwebs.  I’ve spent quite a long while to get the clean sound to work well (i’m still trying to get the right sound out of it as I have only used crappy cans to hear them.)  But, I’m still trying to search for more unique sounds.  This costs so little to nothing to browse an extensive library of tones.  Pretty neat stuff.

However,  this won’t substitute the real thing for long.

I’ll post some more things when school permits.