Tube Amp Archive

Some more pictures holy!..........................................speechless.I had a guy mod a Bassman years ago when I new nothing about amps,same shight.I ended up gutting it and building it back into a ab165 bassman.It is an amp I'll never part with.the tone is superb.I used nothing but the best...

no reply,any other suggestions,I'm thinking some nos rca's maybe.

anybody know how I can contact mhuss?

ah,I'll do just that,thankx..

No it ain't a wreck but it likes to act like one in the"THICK" mode(tone stack lifted).It can get out of control pretty fast,and wants to squeal like a pig if the gain is high.This amp seems to be great at pointing out microphonic tubes.Any suggestions on tubes for this amp,NOS/new production??thnkx..

update to the tw'd 2204.i have added a shared cathode to the v1 tube using 330uf and 820 ohm resistor.the clean stays alittle fuzzy in a cool way when you roll off the volume on the guitar,grinds real well when cranked.od in front totally sceams with harmonics and feedback.just thought i would share...

hey roberto,hooked it up with 100k and .015@600vworks like a charm thank you for your help.now it has kick ass distortion and great bass responce thanks again SLAGG

hello,anyone know what the tt2/d.o.t.trans?is on this schemo and what its purpose is.i bought this on sleeze bay and it is missing and replaced with a couple of resistors.any thoughts would be great thankx

problem solved!added a low gain input ala fender now his dean sounds amazing.now i just gotta build a full blown t'dub.ken truly had an amazing talent.this is like nothing i've ever played through before,can't stop saying WOW!!!

hey,had a bud come over to check it out he brought his orig.dean dimebag guitar and plugged in.it has super high output pu's and it over loads the crap out of the inputsounds real ugly.tried 12at7'12au7' still verloads the hell out of it.i plug my ibanez in and it sounds great.what gives how can i f...

playing the tw 2204 alittle more today just can't seem to walk away.i think it may just be my holy grail of tone.man it would be real cool to play threw a real one well maybe someday.all i can say is WOW!!!

hey great pics and thank you for the schemo.thats the one i will go for.i was thinking of ordering my chassis from ceritone prepunched and ready to go what do you think?

ah,dont have a way of recoding it right now but soon.i'm gonna leave this one as is.its got some mojo.

i've been playing this thing all day i'm just diggin'it.i can see fromthe schematic that there is'nt alot of bom to this but some of these parts may be hard to come by.any advice on a good parts shop kinda one stop type for the trans ect.ect.any help would be great. i'd like to make one as close as ...

hello,my first post here at the garage.ok so i'd been messing around with a 2204 bld.and just could'nt get a ripping lead tone going.got feed up ,so i ripped out the preamp totally and moched up a tw pre just to check it out and wow! this is it this thing sings and screams like a "raped ape.i'm usin...