My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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richon
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My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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Hi,

Here is my bluesmaster/RIPPER with reverb amp

Its almoust ready


Greetings from Chile

http://youtu.be/rYkZ1L120oc
Last edited by richon on Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:48 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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Soy de Oregon. :D

Su amplificador suena bien.
Podemos ver algunas fotos de ella?

¿Es difícil encontrar piezas de amplificadores allí?
Tom

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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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Sounds really good!
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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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Structo wrote: Podemos ver algunas fotos de ella?

¿Es difícil encontrar piezas de amplificadores allí?
Si cuesta bastante (pero la mayoria es importada)


I use Classictone for all transformers and I was pretty much shocked about how good they sound over some "other" famous transformers

Some Pics:

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[img:640:480]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/112924595/Sold ... edneck.jpg[/img]

Soon more pics and videos

Its a modified Bluesmaster preamp, into a Ripper kind of OD channel into a one tube Reverb into a Fender Power Stage with Dumble Presence mod
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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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So I changed the eq of the RIPPER (2nd Channel) from a jcm800 like into a bassman/jtm And BOY IT SOUNDS GOOD NOW

I,ve found that this is a 2 Clean Channel amp:
First is more a blackface sound
Second is more a tweed Overdrive sound

Both sound awesome

I,ve even added a switch for bypass the third stage cathode bypass resistor (820R) with A: none, B: 680n, C: 2,2uf for different tastes of bass/Fat/fuzzy bass notes
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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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Do you have a schematic for this amp? Or one you started out with?

Looks interesting!
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Look at the second page of this thread & it has schematics and even references some editable SCH versions of the schematics:

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.ph ... c&start=15

Please NOTE that the schematics are a draft "idea" and not based on actually seeing a Ripper amp.

with respect, 10thtx
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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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Richon,

How close is your amp to this schematic (IF you're willing to share?)

I attached an editable version that you can alter IF you want to.

With respect, 10thtx
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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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standard bluesmaster preamp...
but 2.2K cathode first stage, 68K slope resistor

OD: 470K/470pF insteak of 470K/47pF

Power/PI : Fender based , not the Marshall values in NFB

this so far...


maybe some minor mods will come later , like bright caps in the masters volume in each channel... but it seems it isn't necessary

or different bright caps on first EQ.... i guess so

also maybe some values to the mixer of the reverb

PS: 500pF in the second stage (recovery) from grid is to have less highs from it?
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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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well,

the OD channel (the 3rd and 4th stages) well completely dumped... redesigned


I went with the OD way of overdriving the signal ... but changed the coupling caps and also (very important) the CATHODE resistors into a Trainwreck-ish third stage and a simple fourth stage , which in results gets me into more distortion than OD (which I kinda like)
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Re: My Handmade "Bluesmaster/RIPPER Reverb" video

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I was thinking it sounds great, but not Dumble-like, then I read the rest of the thread. Very cool design, sounds unique.
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