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