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What I've got hear is a Plexi clone that my buddy made me. He has what we call Smitty Tone Amplification and is a tube amp genius. I found an old tube Bogen PA head and he told me he could basically make anything I wanted out of it. I was wanting an EL34 driven 50 watt Plexi. I asked him about putting the cascade mods that were in the new Randy Rhoads head and he said ,"no problem"! He builds his own boards and hand wires the entire amps. Besides purchasing a few cosmetic things like the tolex, logo, faceplates and such as well as the tubes, everything else came out of that Bogen PA head including the pots and tube sockets. This thing is a killer amp! The cascade mod is activated by a push/pull pot (that didn't come out of the Bogen) located in Pre-amp 1. Pushed in it's completely stock. When I pull it out then the cascade mod is activated and faces melt! HA HA! I just thought I'd share this with you all and pass along his good work. I would have loved to have a Smitty Tone logo on the front but he hasn't gotten that far as of yet. He also builds a smaller 6V6 version that kills as well as a Bogner XTC clone, Trainwreck clone, Dumble clone and others! Enjoy the pics! There's 3 pages that show the various stages in building and even a few of the Bogen PA head that it started out as.
What I've got hear is a Plexi clone that my buddy made me. He has what we call Smitty Tone Amplification and is a tube amp genius. I found an old tube Bogen PA head and he told me he could basically make anything I wanted out of it. I was wanting an EL34 driven 50 watt Plexi. I asked him about putting the cascade mods that were in the new Randy Rhoads head and he said ,"no problem"! He builds his own boards and hand wires the entire amps. Besides purchasing a few cosmetic things like the tolex, logo, faceplates and such as well as the tubes, everything else came out of that Bogen PA head including the pots and tube sockets. This thing is a killer amp! The cascade mod is activated by a push/pull pot (that didn't come out of the Bogen) located in Pre-amp 1. Pushed in it's completely stock. When I pull it out then the cascade mod is activated and faces melt! HA HA! I just thought I'd share this with you all and pass along his good work. I would have loved to have a Smitty Tone logo on the front but he hasn't gotten that far as of yet. He also builds a smaller 6V6 version that kills as well as a Bogner XTC clone, Trainwreck clone, Dumble clone and others! Enjoy the pics! There's 3 pages that show the various stages in building and even a few of the Bogen PA head that it started out as.
Makes everything easy to see. Nice hand wiring!
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