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johnboy8 · 17-03-2009 04:00PM #1

just put this together and wanted to share it,its a madamp g2 2watt amp,and i cant believe how good it sounds.took me about 8 hours putting it together and i cant stop playing it,my other amp can go in the attic this is my new baby.great range of sounds from it from clean to crunch,and all for 115 euro to my door.highly addictive.

Keyzer · 17-03-2009 04:02PM

Lovely...

Build it yourself out of tin cans?

johnboy8 · 17-03-2009 04:06PM

yes all hand made my myself.everything came with it.as i said great sound at proper sound levels.

artvandulet · 17-03-2009 04:11PM

excellent work!:D

Leadership · 17-03-2009 04:16PM

Sweet :cool:

Can you let me know where you got it from? I would love a DIY amp for my studio and you cannot argue with that price.

johnboy8 · 17-03-2009 04:20PM

Leadership wrote: »

Sweet :cool:

Can you let me know where you got it from? I would love a DIY amp for my studio and you cannot argue with that price.

madamp.its the g2 amp.they have a few others but this just works so well,very well thought out diagrams and explanations.

johnboy8 · 17-03-2009 04:25PM

here is an other photo.from left to right volume,smooth/fat switch and then tone(this is a funny tone arrangment,its more like a master.when you lower this all the way down and raise the volume you get no sound,and then when you raise the tone with the volume on full you get a wonderfull crunch)the tubes are russian 6n1p and a 6n2p.

spoonbadger · 17-03-2009 05:03PM

Are you sure it's a tone and not a master volume?

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Looks nice though man, and cant say i've ever heard of those tubes before. Congrats on the score

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boycey · 17-03-2009 05:03PM

Keyzer wrote: »

Lovely...

Build it yourself out of tin cans?

Im sure Leo Fender met with the same 'encouragement' when he started out.

Great stuff johnboy8. Gotta admire the DIY attitude.
How does it sound vs. the Blackstar?

johnboy8 · 17-03-2009 05:36PM

boycey wrote: »

Im sure Leo Fender met with the same 'encouragement' when he started out.

Great stuff johnboy8. Gotta admire the DIY attitude.
How does it sound vs. the Blackstar?

the blackstar has its good points,but this is just amazing,as i said the different tones you can get from this thing are just amazing.i am playing it with my deluxe strat into a 1x12 cabinet with the alnico blue speaker and the bell like tones are still ringing in my ears, i brought it to a friends house last night and played it through his 4x12 cab and it was even better.every one needs one of these in their house.

johnboy8 · 17-03-2009 05:48PM

spoonbadger wrote: »

Are you sure it's a tone and not a master volume? .

Looks nice though man, and cant say i've ever heard of those tubes before. Congrats on the score .

its a tone control alright,every thing in the manual relates it to a tone control,it just acts that way.never heard of those valves before either(even googled them and could not find info on them)i have sent a email to madamp asking where i could get replacements.

Paolo_M · 17-03-2009 07:47PM

Sweet job, man, looks great.
Would love to hear a sound clip if you get a chance to make a recording.

Fingers Mcginty · 18-03-2009 07:54AM

Is there a PCB in that chassis or is point to point?

johnboy8 · 18-03-2009 04:26PM

its all point to point.i was very tidy at the start with all the hard wires,but when it came to wiring the valve sockets it started to get a little messy with all the resistors and capacitors(i did push insulation over all the legs of the resistors and caps )there is a great wiring diagram with it to fault find after if you get stuck or something goes on it.

Fingers Mcginty · 19-03-2009 08:09AM

fascinating stuff.

Fingers Mcginty · 19-03-2009 10:55AM

Could you youtube a demo for us?

ClutchIt · 19-03-2009 01:17PM

Fingers Mcginty wrote: »

Could you youtube a demo for us?

+1!

johnboy8 · 19-03-2009 08:50PM

i would love to,but i dont have any recording devices or the where with all to make a utube clip.sorry bout that.

68 lost souls · 16-08-2009 05:58PM

Hey, not usuall yone for dragging things up from the past but I having debating buying one of these for the last while and was just looking on the musikding site where you order and it says that you need a bottomplate but it give sno further details about the bottom plate. Did you order one and if so which one. It has really confused me.

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