Assembled those basses from the wood I finished pictured previously.
Bass builds done.
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Shadow 480 Multisound humbucker bass pickup
Had this pickup sat on the shelf ages, finally got it in a bass. Figure the instructions might come in useful to someone, kinda mangled on my one, the tape means can’t cleanly open it out, but makes most of it findable for someone tryna figure out one of these.
Here it is in a bass.
New Warrior Pope live record
All the joy of trying to make an embed work right when the preview doesn’t. Here’s a normal link, it might be easier. https://warriorpope.bandcamp.com/album/papal-bull-shit-live-at-the-Louisiana
Laney GH50R guts
Came in kinda weak sounding, one dying preamp valve, standard for high gain amps.
In the back, toroidal so gotta take care to support it when flipping it over, so dno’t put the weight on the valves.
Guts. All pcb mount, push conectors, ribbon cables, stuff I don’t like. Still full size through hole components though.
Couple of shields in there, guess for noise.
Barefaced AVD guitar cab filter. Matamp Slaves
Figure other people will be as curious as I was regarding the switch on barefaced AVD guitar cabs, mine are the early production Eminence loaded ones, but its presumably the same. Ideal is the switch selections open back vs sealed cab type frequency response. Basically sealed is bassier as don’t have the out of phase back of the cone output, whereas in the Barefaced cabs the mid and up benefit of the back of cone oputput is retained, while the port operating in the lows flips the phase of the output so it doesn’t cancel, giving best of both output wise, but the switch retains the option of open back type sound. Anyway, it turns out to be a fairly simple non-polar cap in there to do it.
Also while I had the AD200 in I stacked it up with my Matamp slaves for a comparison shot.
Orange AD200B MKIII guts
Pretty simple amp. Mostly one big PCB with lots of screws keeping it rigid.
Single bias control, note the 1R0 marking on the board, that has a wire link instead. Would be a handy bias test point if it had the right resistor in.
^Picture of a valve I need uploaded for something else.
Bass build projects
Been accumulating parts to build some basses, waiting on summer to do the woodwork outside. Which has been happening. Aim is a looking good with furniture in the livnig room J bass and P bass that work fairly normal to demo amps with and look right hanging with my furniture between times.
P bass started here. Walnut top on Poplar.
The J bass started as a badly done warmoth build I got on ebay, badly spray lacquered. Stripping it raised the grain and made it look terrible. Didn’t take pics until it was sanded back and grain filler going in. Check how nasty that battery cut out is.
Black grain filler going in the walnut. In hindsight, probably should’ve masked off the poplar.
Tru-Oil going on the P after sanding back to 1200 grit.
Oil going on the J after sanding back to 1200 grit
Hardware try outs.
Waiting on screws arriving to do asssembly.
Adastra Model A-53 low power PA guts. New Warrior Pope live, looking for gigs
Been neglecting the blog again, busy times, actually have a fair bit to post catch up on amp guts. Firstly though, check out new live material teaser, and hassle your local promoter to give us a gig.
Think WordPress has changed stuff again, so format is gonna be fucked again. Really basic small metal case 3 channel PA.
Inside 4 EL84, 3 12AX7/ECC83
Nice and tidy inside
Sensibly labelled iron. 32ohm output option. Screw terminals on the back.
Mesa Boogie Bass 400+ guts, stuff for sale.
Sound Centre Nolan 100w EL34 head. Treble and bass styley
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