{"id":1017,"date":"2013-02-16T13:23:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T18:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2013-02-16T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T18:23:52","slug":"no-5-re-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/16\/no-5-re-appropriation\/","title":{"rendered":"no. 5 re-appropriation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/no5_redesign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/no5_redesign.jpg\" alt=\"no5_redesign\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1018\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>this is a re-appropriation of a Fender Frontman 15-B. it&#8217;s one 8&#8243; speaker in a closed cabinet primarily designed as a really cheap bass amp to be included in starter packs. having gutted the amp a few years ago and replaced it with the contents from the No. 5 tube amp project, i got some time to rework the circuit into something more usable. <\/p>\n<p>the additions include a tone stack, second gain stage, and a stand-by switch. the power amp is now wired as a pentode instead of a triode, and i didn&#8217;t feel it necessary to have a switch between the two modes. it still needs a little work to keep it from self-oscillating at high volumes. thanks to those guys who run <a href=\"http:\/\/ax84.com\" target=\"_blank\">AX84.com<\/a> for their P1 project. it definitely helped the way i thought about redesigning the amp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is a re-appropriation of a Fender Frontman 15-B. it&#8217;s one 8&#8243; speaker in a closed cabinet primarily designed as a really cheap bass amp to be included in starter packs. having gutted the amp a few years ago and replaced it with the contents from the No. 5 tube amp project, i got some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,21,78,47],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-amp","tag-amplifier","tag-no-5","tag-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abrammorphew.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}