Modified Marshall style 36

[jestaudio]

Just thought i,d give you folks a peek at my new project after a few evenings work, at the moment the 12 v relay power board is in situ as well as the power transformer(thats what you call heavy metal ) i,ve started work on the power section while i wait for a face plate and a few bits to arrive.
Thanks to those who have chimed in on my previous posts and given good advice

[jestaudio]

The side on view of the trannie

[jestaudio]

My first go at building a turret board circuit up

[Alexo]

Holy mackerel, look at the shafts on those pots!

[jestaudio]

Holy mackerel, look at the shafts on those pots!

Give me a chance ,i havent had time to cut them down yet

[NickC]

Holy mackerel, look at the shafts on those pots!

Give me a chance ,i havent had time to cut them down yet

I'd leave 'em like that. It'll make it easier to adjust the back-line from the front of the stage ...... just reach around .... voila!

[jestaudio]

Holy mackerel, look at the shafts on those pots!

Give me a chance ,i havent had time to cut them down yet

I'd leave 'em like that. It'll make it easier to adjust the back-line from the front of the stage ...... just reach around .... voila!

More practical advice, if you don't mind though i be a typical pig headed brit and stick to convention you know how reserved us brits are

[Lynxtrap]

Looks nice!
Do you have DC to the heaters? Looks like you didn't twist the wires?

[jestaudio]

Looks nice!
Do you have DC to the heaters? Looks like you didn't twist the wires?

i,m trying a variation on the soldano style of heater, not sure if it will work as planned but thtas how i learn

[jestaudio]

Ok fols had a good push this week end and got it up and running prety much without incident, my first impression is the dirt channel does,nt have as much gain as i anticipated, having a check around it appears this amp is,nt really designed for it, if anyone could make a suggestion for increasing the gain i would be interested, more pics to follow in a few days

[myfoot]

There's about a 300 page or so thread over at Metro amp. Here's a link to the page with some layouts and schematics:
http://forum.metroamp.com/viewtopic.php ... start=2085

[Structo]

Do you have any tubescreamer or overdrive type pedals?
You probably just need to goose the input a bit.

[jestaudio]

Do you have any tubescreamer or overdrive type pedals?
You probably just need to goose the input a bit.

Yeah, ,i've got a Lovepedal Kanji, sounds pretty impressive, i had a chance to wind it up a bit today(no nieghbours or wife) and once you crank it up a bit its got a fair bit of gain, pretty close to a jcm, just got to sort the channel switching and the Preamp lift for the clean channel.
Effects loop should be in tomorrow, just got to decide if its worth fitting a dumblator type circuit minus the bright switchs.

[jestaudio]

Latest pics from the amp, nearly finished now, just a tidy up and a tweak before it goes in its shell[/img]

[jestaudio]

Quick update for those who have been kind enough to chip in with various bits of help, i played around with a gain stage in place of the cathode follower, not a good move afetr reinstating the cathode follower i changed the supply resistors from 100k to 22o wiyth the appriate cathode resistor and added some tropical 2 uf bypass caps , got a fair bit more gain and so far i,m liking it, scored a Marshall Celestion for pennys on evilbay i suspect it will compliment this circuit mre than my RCF cab which is normally paired with my D clone