Lonny Young

You asked for a Christmas gift and you shall receive, sort of...

A copy of the legendary Sunn 200S bass amp courtesy of Scott Anderson.  His site can be found at http://home.triad.rr.com/scottvicki/BassAmpProject.htm.

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Many people ask me each year what I want for Christmas and my birthday.  Most of the things that I want are either too expensive or something that I do not feel like asking for.  “Money” is my usual answer, which no one really wants to hear.  So, in addition to money I usually get some other things, most of the clothing variety.  I do need clothes, particularly pants and shirts for work (the clothing situation has gotten worse in recent weeks...).  As unpopular as “money” might be as a given gift, I do not imagine clothing is high up on a person’s list of favorite things to give.

This year, however, will be different.  After completing (four year’s worth of) construction on the amp that I use at work with my iPod, I felt emboldened enough to tackle another project.  As you all know, we don’t exactly have much space to put large, cube-ish, and otherwise not very attractive black boxes in our place, such as my bass amp.  Most of the volume of my amp is taken up by the speaker portion.  However, I have yet to figure out a way to take the head of the cabinet in a way that does not break things.  This amp is much smaller and I can hook it up to other speakers that I already have, hence the attraction to the project.

The amp that I am currently using to play is a small battery-power guitar amp that is in no way designed to handle a bass, much less sound decent, but it’s all that I have right now.  I am also looking for something that sounds better than my big amp.  This amp was used by many legendary bands from the 1960s and 1970s and is reputed to be among the best-sounding amps ever.  Unfortunately, the supply of originals is very limited.  What few that can be found are usually in bad shape and would require several hundred dollars to repair (I can make this for about the same cost or less) or are fantastically expensive. 

This project won’t be cheap by my standards (I DO NOT expect or want anyone to attempt to purchase everything), though not expensive by amp standards.  I fully expect this project to take a year or two to complete.  I have supplied a list of the parts that I will need to complete this project that includes the price of each component, part number, and how many I will need.  And, just to thank all involved, I will be willing to give a “concert” as a show of appreciation.  Thank you to all.