Kent's Vibroclone In Progress Page
05/13/02

This Vibroclone project is going to use a '73 Super Reverb chassis that was purchased on Ebay as a chassis only. We'll be using a '60s JBL D130 speaker reconed by Ted Weber, a custom black tolex with "aged" grill cloth cabinet and a blackface Vibroverb faceplate from Larry Rodger and a new production Twin Reverb output transformer.

Initial Condition


Old caps and a cut up cap pan cover. Another really smoky chassis in need of a good cleaning.


Fiber board with a few changed out caps. Silverface Super Reverb faceplate.

 

Restoration and Conversion Progress


New power caps. Cleaned chassis, new cap pan, reverb tranny, on/off/standby switches, sole control, power cord.


Blackface conversion, new screen and grid resistors. Vibroverb faceplate conversion and switch-able tremolo.


New coupling caps, optoisolator, dual channel reverb. In test.


New reverb pan assembly, just like the originals! New Twin Reverb OPT.


New cab and Vibroverb faceplate from Larry Rodgers.


Ted Weber reconed JBL D130, mounted reverb tank, tube chart, tilt back legs, knobs, jewel and faceplate.

 

Completed Restoration


Yeow! All I can say is that this Verb sounds as good as it looks.

Kent was kind enough to spend the time to write a review on Harmony Central about his clone.
Check it out at: Harmony Central Vibroclone review by Kent Alley

What's left to do:

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