The Many Joys Of A Cranked JTM45: My "Vajra" Marshall Clone скачать в хорошем качестве

The Many Joys Of A Cranked JTM45: My "Vajra" Marshall Clone

It's new amplifier day! Well...this one is about 20 years old, but it's a new amplifier for me, at least! I've wanted a JTM45 amp for many years, and have always been on the lookout for a top quality, vintage-spec handwired one. This one showed up on eBay...and holy hell am I glad I grabbed it! It's a true-to-the-original, 1965 Marshall JTM45 circuit which I've now got running on KT66 power tubes. It does have one small mod (it had more, but I took them out!) in the form of a low-cut switch that tames some of the 45's inherent flubby bass frequencies. It's a circuit derived from the Fender Bassman, after all...which many people forget was originally a bass amp! This clone was built c.2005 by a fella called Mark Durham, based in Richardson, Texas. He was a very active senior member on the popular online 18 Watt forum and built a few amps under the Vajra name. This one was gifted to a friend of his in Scotland, who owned it for about 16 years before I bought it off him last month. Sadly, not long after Mark built this amp and shipped it overseas, he passed away in a car accident in Hawaii - so getting details about his work is mostly only done by scraping info from old forum posts. I've got it running into my Zilla Studio Pro 2x12 cab, and today, I'm just going to crank it up...no master volume, no attenuation...just 30W of juice punching me in the back of the head! It's a stunning sounding thing - I'm absolutely blown away by it. And as my amp tech Mike Devine told me once he took it apart to install the KT66 tubes (the previous owner had it biased for 6L6's), the build quality is Matchless territory....all the caps, transformers, etc are absolutely top grade, and the overall build quality and wiring is immaculate. What do you think? Arguably the best amplifier circuit of all time? Or not for you? Comment below! Guitars are: Heritage H-535 w/ Monty's PAFs Fender MIJ Telecaster w/ Monty's '53 bridge & Bare Knuckle Flat '50 neck Gibson Les Paul Standard w/ ThroBak SLE-101 PAFs Gibson Les Paul Junior w/ Monty's '54 P90 Gibson SG Standard w/ OX4 Alnico IV PAFs Gronlund R16 Redeemer Jr. w/ TV Jones "Ful-Fidelity" Ray Butts Filter'Tron Fender Strat w/ Fralin Alnico III Real '54s Gibson Les Paul Custom w/ OX4 Hot Duane PAFs The Vajra JTM45 Clone is being run through a Zilla Studio Pro 2x12 (closed back) loaded with Celestion Heritage G12M and Fane A60 Alnico speakers. Recorded with an Aston Spirit Condenser, Shure SM57 and sE RNR1 ribbon mics, with a Schoeps CMC6 room mic. 0:00 Intro 8:50 Heritage H-535 12:02 Telecaster 14:46 Les Paul 16:46 Les Paul Junior 18:21 Gibson SG 21:34 Gronlund R16 22:30 Strat 26:47 Channels Jumpered (Les Paul) 28:30 Outro [email protected] Vector images by freepik.com