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I got bored waiting for the transformers for the 200w SLO I'm building so I decided to start finishing the DOJO DE DOOM. Recorded one last video before I took everything out and started insulating and insulating and insulating more.

Amp is 100w SLO into both 412 doom cabs. I have a creamback, em12, dv77, jensen raptor micd up here with a snowball room mic and blended to get the closest I could to the sound in the room.

The bass from the cab on the right is absolutely crushing in the room. Steve the boomer from next door told me the other day "I don't listen to that style of music you play but it sure is loud" LOL.

COVERING FIIIYYAAAAAA

Im over here crankin up in the basement on the killer v

Gonna be a SLO with a quad of kt88s. The output transformer weighs 30lbs lol

This has been sitting her for about 8 months. It was clearly stolen and dropped here. The keys were still in it, I think one of the people that lives over here has them. Not sure if it was out of gas or why they dropped it here. 6300 block of fyler ave.

Police obviously do not give a shit.

...and then I went to the site and blew a hole in my wallet lol My 20th 21st birthday is next week so this is my gift from me to me.

WHO WANTS MAI TAIS?!

Finished the full stack. Using my 100w SLO head for the heavy lifting. Cab is 3/4" marine grade plywood. Grill cloth is a custom printed polyester flag. Coating is exohyde.

KRONK KRONK KRONK!

Amp is my 100w SLO clone. Schecter evil twin > ns1x > mud killer > front of amp > fx out > ns1x return > pq4 > fx in

I have one sm57 and one ribbon mic on the em12 speakers, 1 sm57 on a dv77 and 1 sm57 on a creamback. All mics blended to make it sound as close as it does in the room.

Finally found some time to build another cabinet. First time I've ever had a full stack. This one is all marine grade plywood. Will chug zeros in the morning and report back on if the neighbors like my new riff.

I was getting bored of building marshall and fender style amps so I decided to shoot for something a little different.

This is the ODS183 circuit with pp 6n3c output tubes running around 25w total output. I included the dumbleator circuit and a digital reverb (which sounds terrible) in the head. The tone stack and mode switch are foot switchable.

The turret board on this one was a shitshow. I had it fairly well planned out before I started but with the changes I made I really had to squish 10 lbs of shit into a 5lb bag.

I always opt for random speaker combos and this pair really kicks ass. This Texas Heat and 1218 in this MDF speaker cab gives the loudest flatest response of any of the cabinets I have built. As you turn the volume up they just keep getting louder and louder with zero break up. The rear baffle is MDF and the front baffle is 3/4'' pine plywood. I didn't weigh the cabinet but I am assuming its over 50lbs, it's pretty heavy. The plug and play speaker jack is awesome if you've never used one. It allows for a bunch of different impedance options.

For the faceplates I cut some plexiglass, installed waterslide decals and then backsprayed with white spray paint. Huge pain in the ass but they turned out alright.

The coating is duratex and I will never try to use anything else. This stuff rolls right on and is water soluble so clean up is a breeze. Not to mention it dries in 10 minutes and is ready to work with within a couple hours.

The tone of the amp is incredible. Clear. Crunchy. Loud. The tweakability and sensitivity of the tone stack is 10x better than any Marshall or Fender I have played. You can throw a boost in the front and get some nasty metal tones or dial back the volume and you've got a classic rock crunch machine. The low end from this cabinet is so clear and punchy and the mids sing.

I don't play this one as often as I do some of my others but this is a great amp to have sitting around!

No talking. No warning. Just complete floor domination.

Watch your step. Otherwise you might get cleaned up next...

I went to my local sawmill and they had some awesome looking chunks of southern yellow pine and silver maple so I bought a couple slabs.

Had enough to build two pine and two maple. After those were done I figured I would just build one out of each species of wood I could buy at my local hardware store.

So next up was red oak, then cedar, then poplar, then hickory. I have aspen and alder slabbed up but I recently moved so haven't had a chance to finish those two just yet.

The pine boxes have celestion redbacks, oak has a jensen neo, poplar has a neo evm12, cedar has an eminence lil texas and the maple and hickory cabs have evm12s.

I tried to use solid wood for the front and rear baffles on them as opposed to using 1/2'' plywood, which I would normally use on larger cabinets.

I can honestly say, that these hardwood cabs sound incredible. My favorite so far is the hickory cab. That sob weighs 48lbs lol. The low end is the tightest chunk I have ever heard. For chugging metal, I don't think there is anything better.

I may end up having to do the dumbest experiment ever and build a 412 with 4 zakk wylde ev12s in a hickory cabinet because this sum bitch has got major bottom end and I can only imagine what four of these things could do to a man's hearing.

Drivers are Dayton 6.5", tweeters are Dayton 1.125" silk domes. Coils are Dayton. Caps are cheapo chinesium.

I have screwed and glued plenty of boards together but never designed an enclosure or crossover. So, I used a box volume calculator to figure up the interior dimensions of the boxes and a crossover calculator to determine the coil and cap values. set the crossover at like 1.8-2khz if I remember correctly (it's been a few years). I also had to use a calculator to figure up the port length.

The top, bottom and sides are all solid red oak. The fronts are solid heart pine. The rear panel is 1/2'' oak plywood.

A couple years later and they still sound awesome. The wood is definitely moving though and some of the joints are starting to show some small gaps. I kinda knew this would happen though since the cuts I had to make were like -semi flat/quarter/riff sawn- . I use these with the Dayton apa150 power amp and they get LOUD. Crossovers seem to work well and when you crank the drivers really push some air.

I asked the neighbors if they wanted to see where I chainsaw the bodies. When they saw the room the husband said "holy shit how have we never heard you playing?!". I said, "challenge accepted".

This is my plexi 50w(412) and SLO100(412) in stereo. Both were a tad less than halfway on the master. I have two sm57's on the slo cab and one mxl ribbon mic and a 57 on the plexi cab. I have a snowball room mic about 6ft away from the front of the cabs hanging from the ceiling. The video sound is a mix of all of them, I was trying to get it to sound as close as possible to how it sounds in the room. Mixing this stuff is way more difficult to do than you think it would be.

Signal > tu2>splitter > sentry gate > klon clone > plexi front > fx out to bf2 > re2>rv6 >fx return

splitter > ns1x > mud killer > front of slo > fx out to pq4 > fx return

The sound is HUGE lol. I've never seen the grill cloth move like it was here.

I was too starstruck to say hello.

Almost 10 years ago I got into building tube guitar amplifiers. After I built my first 50w head I knew I needed a 412 cabinet to pair with it. At this point my woodworking experience was limited to small cabinets/rough carpentry/general repairs/picture frames etc. But with my limited tools and skillset at the time I feel like I was able to put together a solid cabinet.

For the dimensions I just copied a Marshall 1960a cabinet as closely as I could. If I remember correctly it came out slightly smaller because I forgot to account for the overlap in the box joints.

The top, sides and bottom are from a solid slab of maple I bought from a local mill. That was a bit of an issue because the only way I could resaw something was with a sawzall and long demo blade. I clamped the log standing vertically snapped a chalk line down the side and started sawzalling. I would guess it took damn near 30 minutes to cut the length of the log into two long pieces. This was when I realized the slabs were too wide to fit into my thickness planer. So I cut them, ran them through the planer, jointed the sides and glued them back together.

I didn't have a box joint jig yet so I cut big box joints with a jigsaw. The rear baffle is 1/2'' maple ply the front is 3/4'' maple ply. The rear baffle has a solid maple post pushing against the front baffle so everything stays tight. The front details are red oak.

Last year I wanted to update this thing a little bit. So I swapped out the diy brass speaker jack plate for one that allows for way more options, went ahead and cut big handle holes in the sides (I really did not want to do this but it was basically immobile without them), added more hardware for the front baffle and put a new grill cloth on. I think it looks way better than it did.

The finish is natural teak oil with 4 or 5 coats of satin poly. Since building this I became obsessed with speaker cabinets and have now built quite a few more.

As far as the sound, it's incredible. With a 50w amp this thing just screams classic crunchy rock.