Would you use a twin for a donor amp?

[Stanz]

Before you say "What?", some details.

It started as a SF quad. The cabinet was chopped in half for two speakers. Someone had put in some "church organ" speakers and did some mods like putting in an XLR direct out in the back of the chassis. Oh yeah, there is the black felt cover over the cabinet. This is where I entered the oh so proud lineage for $450. Didn't sound all that great, took it to a great tech in the area (Sal Trentino, who does amp work for Neil Young) who converted it to a BF twin and put in some new speakers. It rocked after that. Cost me more to fix it than I paid for it. I have since chained the clean ch into the vibrato ch for basically a tube fuzz box that I can switch in and out.

I am not sold on using this as a donor amp as I love the clean tones. What has me considering it is that with the extra gain from the clean ch is not to far from an HRM. Main purpose of the amp is for recording. Want to see if anyone has ideas to consider that I might not have thought about either for or against.

[jaysg]

I would be tempted to leave channel 1 as is, and modify the tremolo channel into an ODS. I'd want to be able to switch from ch 1 to ch2 to ch2 PAB, OD, etc.

[heisthl]

A twin makes a great donor. Here's some pics of one I did a couple of weeks ago. This one in non-HRM with loop and 2 tube reverb. It's nice having 6 preamp tube sockets to work with and you can leave everything after the PI as is.

[dobbhill]

Beautiful amp, heisthl. Does it come with it's own roadie?
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[jaysg]

Beautiful amp, heisthl. Does it come with it's own roadie?

Two EV12Ls...ouch!

[Stanz]

Yeah, I nick-named mine "the beast". Pain to gig with. Sounds great though. Nice amp heisthl. You are right, plenty of tubes. I like the idea of a tube effects loop.