Laney L60 PA mod to Klipp

[jwojtysiak]

I just got a Laney L60 PA head in a trade. I was looking to mod it to a Klipp. Has anyone done this? Would anyone have any idea on how to do this? I only found one tread on thegearpage about this.

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... ?t=1229735

The previous owner had a few things modded to make it a suitable guitar amp. It has nice break up once you get to around 3 o'clock.

Thoughts? Ideas?

[HeavyXIII]

You might see if you can get Laney to send you schematics for both and pinpoint the differences. Probably the easiest thing to do would be adjust cap values and stuff in the preamp to voice it better for guitar. As I read it, it would involve and lot of revamping in the power section to truly match, and the original Klipp's plate voltage of 600V I've heard to be problematic in some cases.

I'd start simpler and adjust the preamp caps and stuff first if you're up to it.

How does it take pedals?

[jwojtysiak]

I was able to find schematics for the Klipp online but not the L60 PA. I think starting simple is the best bet.

It breaks up nicely around 3 o'clock. It take pedals really well. I am just looking for something much different than what I already have and I'd like to try and mod this. I'll play it by ear and see what me and my tech think. He's looking at it tomorrow.

[HeavyXIII]

Maybe it's just the weird Laney purist in me, but if it's in good shape and takes pedals well, I'd be inclined to leave it be. BUT, you may already have a good pedal platform amp making this an extra. You'd have to add in the Klipp gain boost to the circuit to really recreate the Klipp sound, as I don't think that would have been a part of a PA system.

You could mod what's already there to Klipp specs and leave everything else be, and half a sort of simplified or pre-Klipp circuit going on. All sounds cool to me.