Working a few evenings this past week on my TC15, I realised I had a chance - if I worked efficiently - to get it done to play out Friday and Saturday (last night and tonight) at a bar gig my band was playing.
I actually finished up the wiring Thursday night, but I was short a few resistors. Although Stephen shipped them out asap, they didnt arrive in time, but I managed to get them from the local community college which used to have an electronics tech program and still has a lot of parts. Lucky!
I managed to wire them in and got it running! The amp's channel two sounds remarkably like my original 15
- the EF86 side, well, it has a lot of crunch for sure. I ended up gigging the amp for 4 hours last night without issue - trial by fire I guess! Sounds GREAT running through my Orange 4x12 cabinet. For effects, I am running a Janglebox compression/sustainer, an Ibanez TS808 and a Tone bone plexitube for overdrives, a boss chorus and MXR phase 90, and a boss delay. The TC15 (as well as the 15) take pedals just so damn nice!
ANyhow, I made a nice cab for it from some swiss pearwood I had, and a piece of figured claro walnut for the face.
I put my oringinal Trinity 15 watter into a combo cabinet (quick orange tolex job) with a Celestion V30 speaker. Now I can use my new TC15 head for gigging and take the combo to rehersals when I dont want to haul around a cabinet!
Sorry, I didnt feel like stopping to take pics along the way - I was working too fast and in "the build zone" to bother. But here are some pics after it was done...