New old modded comedy amp day

Corvus

Behold the mighty Doobie G15.

I've had this tiny combo for donkeys. It's always sounded thin & very terrible with a cheapo 6" speaker, but ran on mains, batteries and has a car cig lighter lead built in So was busked and paid itself many times over, from London to Norfolk, Scotland. Been on holidays as well. But hasn't been used for decades really.
For some reason I decided to take a look at it, found the battery bay rusted to hell. Speaker leads crumbled. So added new ones and hooked it up to a cab.. sounded way better...

So for no good reason at all I took it apart, replaced all the electrolytics first. Sorted crackly pots. The cab got chopped and put back together, cut down one of it's panels for the back cover, saving the tolex so it looks OK. Added IEC and speaker socket. Cleaned the tolex and panel and whatnot. Made a panel to fill in the front and added some vinyl wallpaper ::)

Before:

Now:

Corvus

It has a strong ol' hum which it always did, doing the caps didn't help. Am semi-tempted to see if someone could mod it to be quieter.

How it sounds through a 2x12. It is slightly better than before!

maharg101

Nice work!

jca74

I'm waiting for the Mesa/Doobie...

Flanging_Fred

Were these amps made by the the folks that made the Meisa amps?

ICBM

Corvus said:

Neat conversion. Did you leave the reverb tank hanging through the bottom of the cabinet?

Flanging_Fred said:

Were these amps made by the the folks that made the Meisa amps?

Mesia - Zoom-Aidean. I don’t know.

I’ve also never found out if that’s the same Zoom we now know as an FX manufacturer.

lustycourtier

werent these 70s japanese copies?

Corvus

Thanks all! At least it's not landfill even if fairly landfill quality. Sentimental value to it I guess.

Mesa Doobie, the toker's choice.

@ICBM and cheers.
I failed to take a pic of the name of whoever made it, it was a two or three part Japanese name that didn't ring a bell. Not that that means much.
@lustycourier it's a basic s/s amp with a small board, it's no clone just a cheeky ride on the coat tails type of thing. There's 2-3 other models all 70s ss type things.