Ampeg V4 4x12 Restoration

[Blackburn]

Bill, hope this pic helps.

[Bill Moore]

Thank you, it does!
Looks like the "triangles" are original, I assume the grill is held by them. Looks more, and more like the original was cut out, can't yet tell how the original mounted, (hopefully not in a slot in the cab!)
I can't tell if there is a divider between speakers, or if I am looking at the floor. Your picture does show the center brace clearly.
Thank you again!

[ampmike]

I had a V4 stack in high school.Didnt know anything about modding tube amps back then.It was cool to play through a stack,Not so much for my Mom and the neighbors.Anyway ,later on I sold that rig to the town Rock Star,Mark Durgett from Parsippany NJ.He made it sound great!!I would love to try a V4 again just to see what they were like.Seems like there was a lot of ampeg stuff in NJ in the late seventies.Mikey

[M Fowler]

Anyone have internal bracing photos so a guy can build one?

[Blackburn]

I had a V4 stack in high school.Didnt know anything about modding tube amps back then.It was cool to play through a stack,Not so much for my Mom and the neighbors.Anyway ,later on I sold that rig to the town Rock Star,Mark Durgett from Parsippany NJ.He made it sound great!!I would love to try a V4 again just to see what they were like.Seems like there was a lot of ampeg stuff in NJ in the late seventies.Mikey

The Ampeg factory was in Linden, which is why Ken worked there.

Anyone have internal bracing photos so a guy can build one?

I can take some if you're interested.

[ampmike]

Yea,Thats about a half hour from Parsippany,I guess thats why we had a slew of them at all the Mom&Pop music stores.Then I saw guys having master vol. put in them too.I think they were pretty nice amps.I would see stacks of bassman heads in the stores as well.They were about 50 bucks a pc back then.I did keep some guitars from highschool and my 69 marshall 100 supertrem.I wished I would have held onto the the V4 but I was clueless in those days.We just wanted mesa boogies with all the creamy distortion.Mikey

[M Fowler]

Just wondering if anyone had taken photos already, don't bother if you didn't.

Must be several versions of this V4 cab, I was finding some on internet but not all looked the same.

[Blackburn]

Mark, it's no problem at all for me. I'll see if I can take some this next week.

[M Fowler]

I haven't run across an Ampeg cab yet but I've had my Peavey straight bottom 412 for years loaded with Celestion English V30's. This is my main gigging cab.

Made of nice ply and it looks good. Cheap price on Peavey cabs too.

[eddie25]

I'd be interested in some internal pics to see how the baffle is mounted as well. Seems like the triangle pieces are just to create some gap for the cloth frame, and theres no screws visible on the front of the baffle. Pocket joints?

[ubxf]

Sorry if this was addressed before but do you keep or remove the insulation inside the cab ?

[Reeltarded]

I like them stuffed because it cuts down on plate mode mids and thumps faster. Quiet is faster when you mute.. all that.

[ubxf]

Thanks for your reply , i put G12-65 and EVM12 in a X pattern and kept the stuffing it sounds pretty good but a little bit on the bassy side.

[NickC]

Nicely done!

Somewhere, buried deep in the storage locker, I have the proprietary 4-prong male XLR-to-1/4" speaker cable from back in the days when I had one of those cabs (it's a backup, original was sold with the cab long ago). I've never run across any other cab that needs that sort of cabling.

[Structo]

You guys have it good on the East coast.

So many years of gear collections and cool music stores.

Sure there are the Dumble, Diaz and California influences that are here but,
there is so much history where the nation was first founded, there has to be warehouses
full of cool stuff back there.