Rocket Pics on the gig

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Rocket Pics on the gig

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Painted head and cabinet
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Very Nice.

I need to do that to my Rocket and Rockster....
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Hey rj, do you prefer your pedals on top of the amp, or was stage not big enough to put them on the floor?
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Nice looking rig! Would love to hear some sound clips too...

By the way, it's very cool that you are playing a Wreck clone right there in New Jersey.

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Being that the top cabinet- without the handle and all, makes for a good platform- I usually only bring one or 2 pedals to a gig- and being in a building type of mode - I decide to build a pedal board - I never liked pedals on the ground anyway- never have room for that - So I cut out a 3/8 marine ply board slightly smaller that the top of the rocket-painted and finished it the same - and mounted the following - Fulltone trem - DLS Chorus ViBrato - Pork Loin- Aqua Puss- Boss RV3- The cabinet is Radiata Pine- lightweight- 3/8" BC pine baffle with 1/4" X 1" edge strip (what's the official name for that piece?) Sears "Whipped Mint" latex paint, Minwax Polycrylic Protective Finish - which is water based. Weber 15F150 30 watt speaker. I favor the 15 speakers. My settings are - cut - zero, bass- 3, treble- 3, volume- about 4/5ths of the way up. tone down 60% on guitar- Rocket does the old school - flat-low fi - sound like no other.
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Stands out, love the paint!
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You from Jersey? I'm from Jersey! What exit?

If you are close enough maybe I will come out and catch one of your gigs!

Amp looks great! I like the white!
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Hi HeeBGB

Next gig Sat Nov 9th Smith Brothers Ridgewood NJ
51 N Broad Ave 8:30pm - 12:30 Am
Arthur Neilson on bass
Come down and play a tune on the Rocket- I'll grab the harmonica
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Rocket at another gig
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Is that a 15 in the cabinet... I think you might have told at one time. I am curious which one you use and if the cabinet is open back?
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Hi RJ- its a weber 15" - 15F150- 30 watt VC.
open back - with 3/4" square pine glued all around the opening.
I added a closed back, closed back with a hole in the center, top and bottom packpanels, single bottom panel. Sounds the best with no panels at all. Once I glued the wood to mount the panels, it changed the sound slightly- made it a tighter bottom. I was origionally running with no panels and no wood to mount the panels to. Every configuration has a different sound. I always tune to get the lows and the highs out. These new speakers have too many highs and lows.
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Great shot, everyone loves girls and amps!
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HeeBGB wrote:You from Jersey? I'm from Jersey! What exit?

If you are close enough maybe I will come out and catch one of your gigs!

Amp looks great! I like the white!
Wanna drive over? :D
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