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zaphod

Post subject: Re: 18 watt ideas??

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:01 am

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bibleboy3 wrote:

1. Hammond M3 iron $45

I am open to any and all suggestions.

I recommend you do yourself a favour and invest in a *real* 18W OT from Trinity or GDS, say. The OT is the foundation of the amp's tone.

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bibleboy3

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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:10 am

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Phil,
I would do just that, but I am unemployed!!

I do have the OT from a JTM 45 but I am saving that for another build

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zaphod

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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 12:07 pm

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OK, then use the JTM45 OT for now. It has an 8k primary. Then when you get your job, swap the JT45 OT for a real deal 18W OT, before doing your JTM45 build.

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littlejac

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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 12:15 pm

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Agreed, and you just saved yourself $45.00

And have a better tranny for the build.

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coco

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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 12:52 pm

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Cool idea & will work too!! I've compared the Hammond to several transformers. Face-to-face.
It would be nice to have low cost option, but it doesn't suit my taste in tone.

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LeeMo

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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:28 pm

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is this the same LeeMo that was moddinga VJr. over on the 18watt site??? if so how far did you get??

Yes, I was on 18watt ( and AX84 and ampgarage /Trainwreck/Dumble) and I do have a Valve jr that Santa brought me, however , I've yet to do more than swap a few toobz in it. I also got my sIII Trinity V6 at the same time and it occupies my play-time with dominance. There are some things that I want to do to the vjr but I'm in no hurry. I plan to tweak it in the tone department and add a 6v6 . I'll make it into a Herzog to drive another amp if I can get it sounding better. Actually, it doesn't sound half bad with a 5751 instead of the 12ax7.

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littlejac

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 6:02 am

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Yea, the 5751 is better, still not a great sound. I've got turret boards built for my vjr's , change them into something else, when I get to it.

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bibleboy3

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:05 am

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phil,
Actually I am planning on using the JTM 45 tranny
(w***r model WOT45HHR) for a slo-clone build

Bill

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