Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by Zork » Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:35 am

It's perfect!

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Post by budda12ax7 » Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:44 pm

RAT wins

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by hulakatt » Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:45 pm

I dig the nuclear look but I'd wanna add in a lighted voltage meter tied to the input signal. Go the whole hog into making it look like industrial equipment bogarted from a government lab.
She/Her

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by MattK » Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:31 pm

RAT is the answer, question is whether you have the guts to snap off the other letters

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by JSett » Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:01 pm

MatthewK wrote:
Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:31 pm
RAT is the answer, question is whether you have the guts to snap off the other letters
This.
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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by MattK » Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:15 am

My Morales Mosrite copy is pretty (self) righteous
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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by MrShake » Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:41 am

RAT wins.

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I've got a "Crate" sticker in the big, white "classic" logo style coming. I'm gonna slap it on the side with some tape above that says "Let Them Eat...", just so they know what hit 'em, if they wanna look closer.
hulakatt wrote:
Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:45 pm
I dig the nuclear look but I'd wanna add in a lighted voltage meter tied to the input signal. Go the whole hog into making it look like industrial equipment bogarted from a government lab.
Oh, I love that, but now we're talking tech work above my pay grade. But there IS a lot of space in the chassis near the input jack...
MatthewK wrote:
Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:31 pm
RAT is the answer, question is whether you have the guts to snap off the other letters
Nope. I'm too fickle, I guess. I'm telling myself it's because the nameplate mounting screws are at the ends. But if I get a wild hair at practice one day ...

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:08 am

i'm gonna say go with rat.

also, good to know i'm not the only person who personalized their amp. i've got an old 4x12 and i've got a ford granada badge on it.
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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by jorri » Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:49 am

Approve. If i didn't sell my Vox it would be a Vauxhall AC30 (UK's Opal cars) but i still have the badge that fell of the car sonewhere.

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by MrShake » Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:58 am

s_mcsleazy wrote:
Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:08 am
i'm gonna say go with rat.

also, good to know i'm not the only person who personalized their amp. i've got an old 4x12 and i've got a ford granada badge on it.
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Because of some psychological hangup, I guess, I generally like keeping my stuff tidy, not worrying about wear and tear, but making it look like a good clean example of what it is. Generally.

But CABS? For some reason I'm all about messing with them. Like, I don't know why more people don't personalize their cabs. Leave the shiny Fender logos and faceplates on the heads alone, sure, but I say cabs are made to have fun with.

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by hulakatt » Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:00 pm

s_mcsleazy wrote:
Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:08 am
also, good to know i'm not the only person who personalized their amp. i've got an old 4x12 and i've got a ford granada badge on it.
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In 30 years, there's gonna be some dude with that old cab, scouring every corner of the internet for the Granada Amp Co, just sure that he found a cab from some obscure builder or company.
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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by hulakatt » Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:02 pm

MrShake wrote:
Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:41 am
Oh, I love that, but now we're talking tech work above my pay grade. But there IS a lot of space in the chassis near the input jack...
I stumbled across someone selling diy boards for adding a simple voltage meter to any electrical input and am seriously thinking of adding it to the next pedal I decide to cobble together.
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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by Plumerai » Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:49 am

add led lights around the speakers behind the grill cloth

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by DeathJag » Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:37 am

Why have I never seen an assman that was once a Bassman? These are kind of the things I ponder.

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Re: Personalizing My Amp / Brand Shame?

Post by MayTheFuzzBeWithYou » Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:58 am

DeathJag wrote:
Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:37 am
Why have I never seen an assman that was once a Bassman? These are kind of the things I ponder.
„arsh“ (Arsch - german for ass) is a common thing to happen to Marshall cabinets (and some amps) in the german speaking area… at least in Austria I‘ve seen some… or „all“ for (outer) space for some Kraut-Rock bands maybe…

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