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Hi, I am a 49 year old guitar enthusiast who has been playing since I was 13. I have recently built my self a couple of very impressive Fender style guitars, of my 10 guitars they are the best to play by far. Anyway I want to try my hand at building my own amp. I have been researching the web and Mission Amps comes up a lot as the only place to go. I want to build a 5e3 type amp but I want to add reverb, my current amp is a twin reverb but it is simply too big for what I do these days, I mostly play in church nowadays, and have to have my volume set so low that the sound is thin and colourless. So the answer is to get a smaller amp, and as building my guitars was so successful I want to build my own. I can get my own reverb tank easily enough if they can’t supply one but would need advice on how to modify the amp to use it. To keep the amp looking original I was thinking about putting the controls for the reverb inside the cab, do you think this is workable or would you have a better solution? I cant imagine that I would be the first to want to add reverb to this type of amp.
I have recently joined Music Electronics Forum, and have seen many helpful posts from Bruce, and I think I will learn alot from here in the next few months, there is plenty of reading for me to do. I don't want to order anything for a few months as the sting from Christmas is still hurting too much to spend more money. I plan to build my own cabinet so any advice on materials to use and where to find a pattern would be welcome. I have no idea what I want for a speaker, my twin has the original Celestians in it, I also have a Fender Power Chorus which from memory has “Fender special design” (whatever that means) speakers. I recently bought a Fender Mustang 1 for the smaller room but I don’t really like it, it is more complicated than I want and the sounds aren’t that great. It was cheap though and can be fun for just at home. I feel that the speaker choice is dependant and what the player wants and as we are a half a planet apart and sounds are subjective it may prove difficult. I can say that I like the “traditional” Fender sounds the best, I play bluesy styles mostly, I like a clean tone as well as a little colour, and at times fairly dirty, The 5e3 from what I have seen suits my wants. My twin has enough tone for me, I don’t use any overdrive or distortion pedals (just volume LOL), my only effects are wah and delay. So, can you help me?
I have recently joined Music Electronics Forum, and have seen many helpful posts from Bruce, and I think I will learn alot from here in the next few months, there is plenty of reading for me to do. I don't want to order anything for a few months as the sting from Christmas is still hurting too much to spend more money. I plan to build my own cabinet so any advice on materials to use and where to find a pattern would be welcome. I have no idea what I want for a speaker, my twin has the original Celestians in it, I also have a Fender Power Chorus which from memory has “Fender special design” (whatever that means) speakers. I recently bought a Fender Mustang 1 for the smaller room but I don’t really like it, it is more complicated than I want and the sounds aren’t that great. It was cheap though and can be fun for just at home. I feel that the speaker choice is dependant and what the player wants and as we are a half a planet apart and sounds are subjective it may prove difficult. I can say that I like the “traditional” Fender sounds the best, I play bluesy styles mostly, I like a clean tone as well as a little colour, and at times fairly dirty, The 5e3 from what I have seen suits my wants. My twin has enough tone for me, I don’t use any overdrive or distortion pedals (just volume LOL), my only effects are wah and delay. So, can you help me?
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