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A cheap practice amp, gutted, then plugged into a 12 inch Jensen Speaker sounds excellent. I seriously feel a bit cheated paying $500 for a 'nicer' amp. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RockyBass@lemmy.world to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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I got this idea from a YouTube video of a guy who wired this same amplifier into a Marshall Cab and was pretty impressed with the sound from that demo. I still had mine laying around so I did the same thing and plugged it into the 1x12 I'm making (Jensen Mod) and was even more impressed than I expected with the result. I went ahead and removed the amp portion from the original housing and slapped together my own housing with a speaker out jack.

Edit: I don't know why the photo keeps showing up sideways for me, i tried to rotate it and upload again but that hasn't fixed it. Apologies for this...

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[–] cedarmesa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Any plans to finish the wood, or leave it raw?

[–] threedaymonk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Often these little practice amps are better than you think, but are held back by the stock speakers and cabinet. I got a Fender 15G free when I bought a guitar years ago. Recently, I populated the circuit board for reverb, added a spring tank, and swapped in a Celestion speaker, and it's now pretty good.

But a few weeks ago I ended up with another free Fender 15G! This time I think I'll build a new cabinet for it as well as adding in the reverb.

[–] Twodozeneggs@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

Odd I'm just seeing this post now, and it says it's 6months old..

Cool project!