NCD (vintage content)

Gassage

Yup- I socred this beauty on eBay. It has the Sound City badged Fane 75w (effectively a Crescendo) in it. I can't quite believe I finally got one!

ICBM

Great cab.

Check it's wired right - hard to tell for sure from the pic, but the tape on the green wire looks dodgy, and that wire appears to go to only one speaker so it can't be right - I fixed one of those a while ago that had been wired with two speakers in series out of phase, in parallel with one other and the fourth in series with that lot! Making something like a 26-ohm cab which didn't sound right at all.

And remember that "75W" Fanes are more like 40W, if it matters… not that you'll be putting a 200-watter through it presumably! (DR103? )

Gassage

ICBM- once I get it I'll check it properly- also put in Van Den Hul x over cable as makes a massive diff.

ICBM

Gassage said:

ICBM- once I get it I'll check it properly- also put in Van Den Hul x over cable as makes a massive diff.

Use stripped-down mains cable .

Seriously, fancy cable makes no difference. Any adequate gauge with decent soldered connections will sound the same.

ESchap

Very nice.  I've got an early one, original sideways salt and pepper cloth.  Was very lucky and picked it up for a song locally on Gumtree.  It's identical to yours inside.  Unfortunately no Fanes in it but 2 x G12M black backs, a G12H Grey back and a G12S!  Like ICBM's experience it was wired all wrong and reading about 24 ohms.  I've now got it with 2 M's and 2H's all mid 70's black backs.  Great sounding cab.  Those Crescendos are a shocking price if you can find them and with original cones, I keep looking.

Gassage

Just scored a 1971 DR103 £950 to go with it.

57Deluxe

will look nice with  coat of gloss black all over...

Bygone_Tones

Nice cab. I was eyeing that up on ebay myself. Those fanes will be 40 watters with pulsonic cones, some of my favourite speakers.

It is always a good idea to get vintage speakers out of the cab and check them over properly, a lot of them are in poor condition thesedays. So long as you are not disturbing originality on a valuable cab it should be OK to get them out (never cut the wiring harness on a valuable vintage amp or cab). Also never yank the speakers out if they are stuck to the cab baffle unless you want to rip the cones to shreds. This might help:

http://www.bygonetones.com/blog/how-to-test-vintage-guitar-speakers

jacksparrow

Gassage said:

Just scored a 1971 DR103 £950 to go with it.

lucky beggar ya, nice price on that, congrats.