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Title: Ceriatone Vibro Champ Fender style Post by: johan68 on December 09, 2008, 08:00:25 PM Finally finished my VC project (over a year since I bought the kit from Nik.... :-[). Inspired from a thread at the TDPRI (Telecaster) forum I decided to build it as a top with classic Fender Blackface style so I bought a face plate from Marsh amps. I didn't want to buy or build a new chassi so I made some maybe not so nice arrangements to fasten the faceplate but it's not visible so .... 8), It's all standard wiring except that I can bypass the tone stack with the on/off switch at the front, the power switch is instead placed at the back. With the tone stack bypassed it's much louder and get a more dirtier sound (more like a tweed champ). I use it with the speaker (Eminence 12') in my Ceriatone 5E3. Great sounding amp! Works well with pedals and I love the tremolo, I use it all the time now. (http://www3.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/c2e8cfd4da5cb4d6fd0fb92f91e6cca45g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=jnymj5yrykw&thumb=4) (http://www0.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/0b27995d07de8b08ba07ab468b2e3b335g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=hjgtmvwhzhz&thumb=4) (http://www0.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/05409a02d2dec008f6b40964280bfd5a5g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=o3ykzwcugnm&thumb=4) (http://www1.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/37c05de0d8a62fa1ae91012cda4dada65g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=irlfyylibml&thumb=4) More pics: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=713234fce3ca90e391b20cc0d07ba4d22279c22a645f9ff7 Title: Re: Ceriatone Vibro Champ Fender style Post by: spark_right on March 02, 2009, 08:51:09 PM That looks really really nice good job ! Thanks for the faceplate suppliers name , i'll get one of those for my amp .
I've just received the same ceriatone kit . Can i ask a favour ? could you let me/us see your schematic for the tonestack bypass please ? Title: Re: Ceriatone Vibro Champ Fender style Post by: johan68 on March 29, 2009, 05:13:15 PM That looks really really nice good job ! Thanks for the faceplate suppliers name , i'll get one of those for my amp . I've just received the same ceriatone kit . Can i ask a favour ? could you let me/us see your schematic for the tonestack bypass please ? Thanks and sorry for the late reply. I made it very easy, just disconnect the cable at the Volume pot that comes from the Bass pot, instead let it go from the Bass pot to one of the lugs on the switch. Solder the 15K resistor to the middle lug on the switch and let a cable go back to the Volume pot. In the On position there is a connection between the Bass and Volume pot just as the original schema, in the Off position this connection is disconnected and the tone stack is "bypassed". Take a look in this thread for some more discussion and improvement of this simple "bypass" mod I've done: http://ceriatoneforum.com/index.php?topic=987.0 (http://ceriatoneforum.com/index.php?topic=987.0) (http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/0edb7c3207d21a8eb4bfd5418f6e7d806g.jpg) |