Hi,
I got a link to this forum from a fellow dutch mesa owner from an other board, saying I have to post these pics on this board as well. Well, here goes:
I own a rect-o-verb II combo and like most of the mesa stuff or tube stuff, they're heavy! To get that up and down from and to the second floor (I thought that in America it is called the third floor)over a lousy stair; it drove me crazy and exhausted. Also a head has a lot more advantages over a combo for me. So I made a housing for the amp itself and making one really heavy thing in two little less heavy things. Literally I made from my combo a head, but I wanted to leave the combo total intact, so I still could go back to a combo.
Here are some pictures. I made these while it was dark, so I had to use the flash light of the camera. This gives some slight reflections and seemingly odities, but everything looks alright with my eyes.
So.... call it a punk DIY attitude, call it a total lack of social live, call it obsessive college avoidance behavior, but I wanted to built a 2x12 cabinet. What santa doesn't give, you have to build it yourself =)
The sizes are Mesa's own 2x12 recto cab sizes. 17 1/2"x30 1/8" x 14 1/4". Birch plywood of BB/B grade. 18mm thick. The baffle is also birch of 18mm and locked/glued. Same construction as the rect-o-verb combo. Loaded with celestion V30's
I'm still going to place some piping and I'm thinking of airbrushing the speaker canvas. but that's just an idea I haven't worked out.
Sometimes it's too bad that I couldn't find all the materials that Mesa is using, like the tauron tolex or the rabbit hat corners. Well it was possible but then I had to order them far abroad wich usualy implies that you have to wait a very long time deu to customs and taxes and so on.
But I like this look as well, so no problem.
The total setup:
You can see that the "cabinet" in the middle was the original recto-verb combo. On the right you can see a les paul wich I also modified; a refinish job of an old epiphone goldtop. And because I'm already pimpin my *** of with my first topic here on this board, some pictures:
In total this sounds hard! Everyone here knows how a Mesa Recto sounds, then through an oversized cab (leaving an cassis out makes it quite oversized) with black shadow (I've been told that they are relabeled celestion's classic lead) and a 2x12 oversized v30 cab sounds great. But I must admit that I don't have the experience of playing over a tons of other setups. But for now I can get a lot of sounds and tone out that suits me really well: mostly punk/hardcore/metal with a bit of blues and rockabilly.
I got a link to this forum from a fellow dutch mesa owner from an other board, saying I have to post these pics on this board as well. Well, here goes:
I own a rect-o-verb II combo and like most of the mesa stuff or tube stuff, they're heavy! To get that up and down from and to the second floor (I thought that in America it is called the third floor)over a lousy stair; it drove me crazy and exhausted. Also a head has a lot more advantages over a combo for me. So I made a housing for the amp itself and making one really heavy thing in two little less heavy things. Literally I made from my combo a head, but I wanted to leave the combo total intact, so I still could go back to a combo.
Here are some pictures. I made these while it was dark, so I had to use the flash light of the camera. This gives some slight reflections and seemingly odities, but everything looks alright with my eyes.
So.... call it a punk DIY attitude, call it a total lack of social live, call it obsessive college avoidance behavior, but I wanted to built a 2x12 cabinet. What santa doesn't give, you have to build it yourself =)
The sizes are Mesa's own 2x12 recto cab sizes. 17 1/2"x30 1/8" x 14 1/4". Birch plywood of BB/B grade. 18mm thick. The baffle is also birch of 18mm and locked/glued. Same construction as the rect-o-verb combo. Loaded with celestion V30's
I'm still going to place some piping and I'm thinking of airbrushing the speaker canvas. but that's just an idea I haven't worked out.
Sometimes it's too bad that I couldn't find all the materials that Mesa is using, like the tauron tolex or the rabbit hat corners. Well it was possible but then I had to order them far abroad wich usualy implies that you have to wait a very long time deu to customs and taxes and so on.
But I like this look as well, so no problem.
The total setup:
You can see that the "cabinet" in the middle was the original recto-verb combo. On the right you can see a les paul wich I also modified; a refinish job of an old epiphone goldtop. And because I'm already pimpin my *** of with my first topic here on this board, some pictures:
In total this sounds hard! Everyone here knows how a Mesa Recto sounds, then through an oversized cab (leaving an cassis out makes it quite oversized) with black shadow (I've been told that they are relabeled celestion's classic lead) and a 2x12 oversized v30 cab sounds great. But I must admit that I don't have the experience of playing over a tons of other setups. But for now I can get a lot of sounds and tone out that suits me really well: mostly punk/hardcore/metal with a bit of blues and rockabilly.
