Ghetto Amps...

poopot

Ok... seems the cats out of the bag now!...

A few years back I built an amp for my pal Dom.
He still uses the amp over all of his boutique and vintage gear... it did and still does sound cracking to be fair...

Fast forward to now and myself and @Danielsguitars have decided that the amp should be released into the wild and we are putting it into production and taking orders from anyone that fancies a truly great sounding amp!...

I’ll let you all have a gander over the images and have a listen to the quick video we shot!...

Ladies and gents... I give you the “Ghetto 310”

Quick vid demo...

https://youtu.be/u6LOzSkPhb4

the amp was recorded with an sm57 straight into logic... the sound you hear is the amp, clean and then cranked... massive thanks to @Dainty for providing the arms and hands in the video...

so, a bit about the amp...

We separated the V1 cathodes so we can get two distinctive and different sounding channels... We have a classic American style sound in the “normal” channel and more of a British flavour in the bright channel... we also added a variable negative feedback control to tighten up the response and give it a bit more clean headroom should you want it...

valve wise we have:
JJ 12ay7 in V1... Mullard ecc83 in V2 and the PI... 2 x EH 6l6's and a JJ rectifier giving 35watts+

The 3 x 10' Eminence LEGEND 1028K speakers make this amp sound amazeballs...

it breaks up beautifully albeit at a bit of a loud volume  about 35watts (bit more if you run it flat out ).


come join us over on Facebook if you like...

https://m.facebook.com/ghettoamplifiers

we like it... hope you do too...

poopot x x x

ennspek

Sounds awesome!

TheBigDipper

That sounds lovely. 3 x 10  is a stretch for lots of people these days, I'd suspect, but very, very nice. Good luck and how much? 

Lebarque

How many watts?

poopot

Lebarque said:

How many watts?

35watts, bit more if you are running it cranked!..

Rowby1

That looks very impressive! Nice work.

Winny_Pooh

Very nice

SRD81

Looks and sounds awesome

Danielsguitars

Tried it with an attenuator and it worked really well for an earlier breakup without getting too loud, it's a great amp 

spooner248

Dude, I wish you all the luck and success in the world! I hope this is the start of something beautiful for you.

lukedlb

I've never seen a 3x10. How do you work out the ohm rating?

poopot

spooner248 said:

Dude, I wish you all the luck and success in the world! I hope this is the start of something beautiful for you.

Cheers... they do sound lovey (and I say that with no ego )

the original I built is earning it keep here:
http://rockwoodstudios.co.uk/

It gets a lot of love!!!!

poopot

lukedlb said:

I've never seen a 3x10. How do you work out the ohm rating?

It’s 2.66ohm load... the tranny has 8, 4 and 2ohm taps (all wired to sockets should you wish to chop and change)...  We run it into the 4ohm out... sounds great in that...

poopot

Set up an instagrim account if anyone fancies following... 

@ghetto_amplification ;

love ya x x x 

poopot

Done another quick demo vid.

Amp - sm57 - Logic... all the tonez are from the amp...

poopot

The original proto ghetto 310 being put to good use by Dom brown during a streamed gig!...

https://www.instagram.com/tv/COQk7BrnEbl/?igshid=8kzdfriq1ixi

les Paul > big trees > ghetto 310

poopot

Having tried many a different drive pedal with the 310 we decided on our own...

a lovely crunchy OD with an independent clean boost... smacks the hell out of the amp

Demo on its way!...

Danielsguitars

As long as Frank's not doing it