Tripletone SE Combo
Amp Conversion
If you're looking for a really well sorted vintage, low power, SE, early 50s guitar amp, then you know what they cost.
On offer here is my latest pride and joy. It's based around an early 50s Tripletone Hi-Fi amp, which has undergone a number changes, in several stages, to make it a superb little 5 Watt or so, highly versatile guitar amp with killer tone.
First, it has a 3 core mains cable and internal fuse fitted. Next the negative feedback was cut and the preamp gain tweaked. The gain was quadrupled by replacing the 6SN7 with a Mullard ECC35.
Next, most of the old capacitors were changed and a few components were upgraded to reduce noise and voice the amp, but it still remains true to the original circuit. With the higher gain preamp, the heaters needed to be rewired and a hum-dinger fitted. In the 50s and early 60s it was quite common to use the chassis as one side of the heater circuit which can cause hum. The crude input also had to be rewired to more modern standards and this has drastically improved the noise floor, and stability. This little amp is super quiet now and takes effects brilliantly, but you don't need them to get great tone.
The key feature are the independant TMB tone controls, allowing huge scope, from growling hard rock to spanking Fender-like cleans.
The vintage valves are a Brimar 6X5GT rectifier, a Mullard 6V6GT and a incredible Mullard ECC35, which on it's own is worth over £100.
The amp is fixed to a shelf that can slide out the early 50's Bell & Howell cinema speaker cabinet fitted with a 12" Weber Special Alnico speaker. You can play it open backed with the amp inside, but you get a very different reaction from the speaker and cab with the amp out and the back closed up.
The little amp didn't have a face plate so I made one for it echoing the old Tripletone style.
To complete the vintage look, you even get the original cover and key to lock it all up, so none can tamper with your lovely new toy!
This little combo will do great in a studio, a bedroom, or even a pub gig, so do yourself a favour and grab it! When it's gone, there won't be another one, and what are your options? An early 50s tweed champ will set you back over £1500. This little combo will do much more!
On offer here is my latest pride and joy. It's based around an early 50s Tripletone Hi-Fi amp, which has undergone a number changes, in several stages, to make it a superb little 5 Watt or so, highly versatile guitar amp with killer tone.
First, it has a 3 core mains cable and internal fuse fitted. Next the negative feedback was cut and the preamp gain tweaked. The gain was quadrupled by replacing the 6SN7 with a Mullard ECC35.
Next, most of the old capacitors were changed and a few components were upgraded to reduce noise and voice the amp, but it still remains true to the original circuit. With the higher gain preamp, the heaters needed to be rewired and a hum-dinger fitted. In the 50s and early 60s it was quite common to use the chassis as one side of the heater circuit which can cause hum. The crude input also had to be rewired to more modern standards and this has drastically improved the noise floor, and stability. This little amp is super quiet now and takes effects brilliantly, but you don't need them to get great tone.
The key feature are the independant TMB tone controls, allowing huge scope, from growling hard rock to spanking Fender-like cleans.
The vintage valves are a Brimar 6X5GT rectifier, a Mullard 6V6GT and a incredible Mullard ECC35, which on it's own is worth over £100.
The amp is fixed to a shelf that can slide out the early 50's Bell & Howell cinema speaker cabinet fitted with a 12" Weber Special Alnico speaker. You can play it open backed with the amp inside, but you get a very different reaction from the speaker and cab with the amp out and the back closed up.
The little amp didn't have a face plate so I made one for it echoing the old Tripletone style.
To complete the vintage look, you even get the original cover and key to lock it all up, so none can tamper with your lovely new toy!
This little combo will do great in a studio, a bedroom, or even a pub gig, so do yourself a favour and grab it! When it's gone, there won't be another one, and what are your options? An early 50s tweed champ will set you back over £1500. This little combo will do much more!
