The Panic Room, Wall of Doom!

Plec

Master of Ceremonies
Aug 30, 2004
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www.thepanicroom.se
Installation of the new studio... just starting to get some of the amps together. These goodies plus a few more will be connected to a Radial JD-7 and a speaker patch bay where you can choose between a wide assortment of cabs in the recording room. :flame:

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NOICE! Is that a Mesa Mark III or IIC+??
Hey man!
It's a modified Mark III. I've had some or a lot of work done to about half the amps in there.

What shelf is that, Billy? ;)
Yeah, not very different. Although you'd have to modify a Billy to be able to cope with the weight of these amps, plus you don't have cutouts and cable channels in the back to accomodate power and instrument signals. So no.. it's not a cheap IKEA purchase. ;)

Jag hörde att du flyttade in den till Skara, stämmer detta?
Stämmer bra det.
 
These goodies plus a few more will be connected to a Radial JD-7 and a speaker patch bay where you can choose between a wide assortment of cabs in the recording room. :flame:

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F@cking wicked idea man. I don't know what I did without a JD-7 the last few years, but now I got one it's the most amazing tool ever. Combining that with a speaker cab patch bay would be ridiculous.
 
How do you deal with diffrent impedence on the amps? I've wanted to connect all amps to a patch bay for ages, but the fact that you have to switch impedence on the back has made me wonder about its use. Or like with Engl and Mesa where you have to move the speaker cable to different outputs. Not very handy!
 
Installation of the new studio... just starting to get some of the amps together. These goodies plus a few more will be connected to a Radial JD-7 and a speaker patch bay where you can choose between a wide assortment of cabs in the recording room. :flame:

WODsmall.jpg

Fantastic!
 
How do you deal with diffrent impedence on the amps? I've wanted to connect all amps to a patch bay for ages, but the fact that you have to switch impedence on the back has made me wonder about its use. Or like with Engl and Mesa where you have to move the speaker cable to different outputs. Not very handy!
It involves a certain amount of compromise of course, unless you want to make a huge ass patch bay for every single speaker output of every amp. I will be using 8 ohm outputs for all the amps that handle that since it's the most common, plus make notes for everything else so that you don't mismatch. An 8 ohm output into a 16 ohm cab is ok, but the other way around is not good practice.

I want that shelf, got a link?
I haven't found anything commercially viable that can handle the weight and works good to modify for the intended purpose, so I designed it myself and went through the design with a local carpenter. It would be too much work finding something and then modify it anyway, so I figured why not get what you want right from that start?

It's really nice that you can have them stand right up against the wall since you have a cable channel in the back that fits everything you need and you feed in the main power cabling through a cut-out at the bottom and you also attach power distribution to the sides of the cable channel which then feeds every amp in the shelf. It looks really slick, since the only cabling you ever see is one mains cable by the floor.