No Reason Not To Confirm This Cabinet Selection!

Late in 2014, my friend and fellow TTAC author Ronnie Schreiber scored a pair of Celestion Vintage speakers and sold them to me for less than the price of a steak at Ruth's Chris. Around that same time, my childhood pal Ryan Lydon showed me an absolutely stunning cabinet that he had built for his silverface Fender Champ. The last piece of the puzzle was that I had a very nice Trainwreck Rocket clone built for me by a fellow who calls himself "KBP810". Why not put all of these people and things together and see what happens?

I'm taking delivery of this over the weekend and I'll be combining it with another absolutely unjustifiable music-gear purchase in a Wednesday Night Video as soon as bass-player Patrick comes back from his sabbatical helping the dissidents in Tibet. (Just kidding; I think he's been parenting his children, which is just as tough when you think about it.) The cabinet is heavily-figured cherry.

The clone amp has the following characteristics:

• Trainwreck Rocket circuit, with the addition of a short accutronics tank

• Pacific transformers

• 4 Preamp tubes (12ax7's) and about 15-18 watts of power from 4 EL84 tubes

• Sozo tone and coupling caps, and F&T's for the power filter caps

I used to play it through a Crate Blue Voodoo 4x12 that my son and I bought from a semi-homeless Russian expatriate who was sleeping on the floor of a place called The Dude Locker, but the Crate took up a lot of space in my music room that I wanted to use for a paisley-covered PRS 4x12 so the Trainwreck has been cabinet-less since June of 2014.

Ry-Ry says that the amp is "scare the rabbits good". I don't know if that refers to the enormous rabbit that lives in his house or perhaps something more disturbing/profound. I'll find out when I take delivery. All I can say is that Saturday night is going to be a bad night to live next to me...