| Something old, something new ! [message #18897] |
Sat, 22 June 2013 09:57  |
braud357
Messages: 154
Registered: July 2010
Location: Louisiana
|
Senior Member |
|
|
A couple of years ago I converted a 3x12 cabinet to a 2x12 + 2x10 cabinet. It sounded so good that I wanted a matched set. Late last year I found an original 2x12 + 2x10 cabinet in Tennessee - very near where my brother lives. he snagged it for me, and I finally got it from him a couple of months ago. I had laid out the speaker baffle on my original conversion a bit differently than the factory, so I had to fabricate a new speaker baffle to match. I removed the speaker divider, plugged the rear panel oval ports, and recovered the back panel with black naugahyde. Eminence Delta 8 ohm speakers were used, and the 12's and 10's are wired separately. Each cab is 2 ohms. This completes the "old" of the story. The "new" part is my new Carvin BX1500 dual monoblock amplifier. This beast will put out 750 watts RMS per side into 2 ohms, and 450 watts per side into 4 ohms. I finished the cabinet on Thursday, and hooked it all up yesterday. With the amps set at "5", the drive set at "4", and the master volume set at "1", I was vibrating items from the shelves in my garage - WOW ! Clean, tight sound, and volume and headroom off of the charts ! I have found the ultimate rig (for me) - old school look, with modern electronics. With this set-up, I can control the 10's and 12's separately.Here are some pics !
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Something old, something new ! [message #18907 is a reply to message #18906] |
Mon, 24 June 2013 09:12  |
Kustom_Bart
Messages: 601
Registered: October 2010
Location: Greenville, MichiGUN
|
Senior Member |
|
|
Right on Steve,
I do that with nearly every tube amp that I work on and put the AU7 in the first spot in the signal chain to make the clean channel as clean as possible and it makes things better up through as you add gain stages.
|
|
|
|
VintageKustom.com
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
]