What's Your Setup?

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jotangent said:
There is a site called Marktplaats.nl here in the Netherlands, its like craigslist but better, you need to speak dutch to take full advantage of it but you can find almost anything on there so try a translation service and give it a look. About a year ago I started looking for old valve amps to convert to guitar use. You can find a bunch of old PA amps fom 1940-60's that folks just dont want. Mainly coz they are distro line type things without low impedance outputs.

My best buy yet is a 12 watt (2xEL84) from the 1960's, it came out of Harlem railway station and therfore had a good service history and a proper 3 pin power supply, its a PTP wired balanced amp with a lovely peice of iron in it, sounds way better than an AC15. This one even has an 8Ohm output on it. Ever since I busted my mates Boogy Maveric (dont ask) he has been using it plugged into the speaker from his beloved (shit man I'm sorry). And it rocks, havent modified it yet either, the old ceramic phono input is high z. Cant get an overly distorted sound out of it on its own but thats what a fuzz pedal is for. You can really drive the output tubes without shaking the windows out of thier frames though.

I have another 2 from the same company from 1940's sitting waiting for me to fiddle with, like I said, I have a 30 euro limit on things like that, you never know if its going to be a lemon after all.
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Wat u is die wacht op krijg mij enige!








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moresound said:
Wat u is die wacht op krijg mij enige!
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I am english but I do understand dutch and can make simple conversation, writen netherlands is another matter. The make of the ones I have is Van Der Heem or Magnetar which was the same company but making comercial amps for PTT and NS. There are loads of Philips ones out there normally too. Good luck getting them sent to the states though.

If I find a serviceable one (EL84 tubes or something they still make) I will consider sending to the US if you ask really nicely. I am in the UK for a few months though so nothing doing until the new year.

Mvg, Joe
 
diggy_dude said:
I bet the DOD FX51 Juice Box pedal would work great with that. It's a very quiet overdrive that preserves playing dynamics. I like it much better than the TS-9.
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Will look out for a reasonably priced one on the web, the guitarist using the amp has a bigmuff which does the trick but the more pressys I get him the less I will get gip for the loss of his Boogy. Unless anyone has a schematic so I can knock one up myself that is (beg beg)
 
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