being greedy with the Epi 5W head

Its kinda ugly but it is a BLUES amp after all
Well, the came 'n repo'd my car,
my wife shot my dog
and then moved in with the sheriff,
and to make matters worse
I got the ugliest amp in town
Oh, I got Epi Valve head Blues........

Its kinda ugly but it is a BLUES amp after all
Well, the came 'n repo'd my car,
my wife shot my dog
and then moved in with the sheriff,
and to make matters worse
I got the ugliest amp in town
Oh, I got Epi Valve head Blues........

Thats about it :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hey, Dog! What kind of Wah is that? and the silver pedal to the right of it? We almost have the same ugly set up. I have that Arion Tubulator and the Dano EQ. I have a Dunlop Wah, not currently in the mix, neither is the EQ right now, though.

its a Cry-Baby got it around 1975, still works great. The other pedal is an Aleses ineko sound processor, it has lots of effects but I mostly use it for reverb--the dog

Ken

How do you wire up that home-made attenuator? That would be a fun little project I might like to try.

Very simple, The attenuator has a input and out put screw in terminals ( kinda like electric outlets). I just wired a jack to each one. One is the inlet( from the amp) the other is outlet (to the speaker) Just be sure to keep the + and - straight. Her is a pic, it looks kinda rough since I didn't have any tin snips( I used garden shears :oops:

So each input and each output has a positive and negative screw? 4 screws in all, correct?

How do you identify the input and output on the attenuator?

And the tip contact of the 1/4" jack should be positive correct?

Sorry for all the silly questions. I know a very little about electronics and can solder well, just wanted to make sure I do it right.

I think I will try this, it looks fun.

Thanks for the help.

Yeah, that's some cutting job you did. But heh, it works. :wink:

Wes

I'd like to try it myself, but I don't know a lot about electronics at all. I felt I did a great job with the minor task of transforming my former Crate amp into a cab for my Epi head. Replacing the pick-up in my Toronado earlier this year seemed major to me. I guess the more I do those electronics projects, the more comfortable I get doing it.

So each input and each output has a positive and negative screw? 4 screws in all, correct?

How do you identify the input and output on the attenuator?

And the tip contact of the 1/4" jack should be positive correct?

Sorry for all the silly questions. I know a very little about electronics and can solder well, just wanted to make sure I do it right.

I think I will try this, it looks fun.

Thanks for the help.

Yeah, that's some cutting job you did. But heh, it works. :wink:

Wes

Yes a positive and negative screw terminal on each side, and each side is labeled in or out. The tip is positive. BTW I got this at Radio Shack for about $18. It sounds very good, I can even gt some nice feedback at low volume.---the dog

Here is the web page
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2104029&cp=2032057&pg=2&f=Taxonomy%2FRSK%2F2032057&categoryId=2032057&kw=volume+control&kwCatId=2032057&parentPage=search

Actually, it looks fine with the cover one, looks a little rough once you open the attenuator out? What did you do, use garden shears? :-) :-)

Anyway, I think I want to try this project too..and I want to do it with my Galaxie 10. Can you please help with the parts inventory? For that, I have to take out the spade connector from the speaker, wire it to a jack (preferrably just using a female spade connector), then create another cable which has a spade connector at one end and 1/4 inch connector at the other end.

Can you please help with the parts inventory?
- Volume control : radio shack
- Project box : home depot?
- Good source for jacks?
- Any recommendation on what kind of wire to use?

Thanks in advance!

Yep. Garden Shears :lol:

While I was in my neighbourhood Radioshack the other day I saw several black plastic project boxes. Would those work. It would seem really easy to drill through them for 1/4" input/output plugs. They also had plenty of 1/4" jacks ( I picked up several varieties for about $12 total, just in case I needed them for anything). Plus I would assume the plastic might be cut a little easier than metal.

You can find the thread that I got the Idea for this from here :D
http://www.valvejunior.com/index.html#disc
You might have to look around for it. You can put it in anything I suppose as long as it fits :D

I'll just have to keep reading thru that thread several times. It is mostly unknown language to me. I figure I'm not too dumb, though. So, eventually I'll be able to interpret some of it. Thanks for the link, Dog! I'll figure out something. If worse comes to worse, I'll drive down the road and knock on your door one day asking for a real live visual of that "Frankennuato"r.