Ceriatone DC30 project
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Ceriatone DC30 project
Some of you may know I bought this amp a month or 2 ago.
It’s a Ceriatone built Matchless DC30, but it came in a cabinet wrapped in a wool blanket! This is not an exaggeration!
I have since made the original combo cabinet into a head for it and just finished recovering it in its new British racing green tolex
Today. I’m still waiting on some corners and a handle from
Overseas but it’s close to finished. Thought some may be interested in seeing the progress. I think now it’s a head it’s technically an HC30??
It’s a Ceriatone built Matchless DC30, but it came in a cabinet wrapped in a wool blanket! This is not an exaggeration!
I have since made the original combo cabinet into a head for it and just finished recovering it in its new British racing green tolex
Today. I’m still waiting on some corners and a handle from
Overseas but it’s close to finished. Thought some may be interested in seeing the progress. I think now it’s a head it’s technically an HC30??
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Re: Ceriatone DC30 project
Yes but it wasn’t in a headshell at that point, on the ground beside my amp in the picture.
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Re: Ceriatone DC30 project
Well I do like to re purpose things, and although the cabinet was given a second chance at life the wool blanket wasn’t given the same opportunity.
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Re: Ceriatone DC30 project
Nice work Reg. Glad it's worked out so well although I have to say the gut shot's look nothing like my recollections of the insides of my old HC30.
Give it a go with two rectifiers, makes it much spongier and more old school.
Give it a go with two rectifiers, makes it much spongier and more old school.
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Re: Ceriatone DC30 project
I will defiantly give that a go at some point, it sounds fine as is but I am very curious to find out the difference.Dharmajester wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:27 pm Nice work Reg. Glad it's worked out so well although I have to say the gut shot's look nothing like my recollections of the insides of my old HC30.
Give it a go with two rectifiers, makes it much spongier and more old school.
Yours was an actual matchless though?
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Re: Ceriatone DC30 project
Those are the most parallel input jacks I've seen - even the shielded cables are parallel
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Re: Ceriatone DC30 project
Yeah it was an old Sampson era from the 90'sReg18 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:30 pmI will defiantly give that a go at some point, it sounds fine as is but I am very curious to find out the difference.Dharmajester wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:27 pm Nice work Reg. Glad it's worked out so well although I have to say the gut shot's look nothing like my recollections of the insides of my old HC30.
Give it a go with two rectifiers, makes it much spongier and more old school.
Yours was an actual matchless though?
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Re: Ceriatone DC30 project
Perfect colour tolex for a british voiced amp Reg
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Re: Ceriatone DC30 project
Matchless can be a bit of a rat's nest. The ones I've seen anyway.Dharmajester wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:27 pm Nice work Reg. Glad it's worked out so well although I have to say the gut shot's look nothing like my recollections of the insides of my old HC30.
Give it a go with two rectifiers, makes it much spongier and more old school.
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