My homemade bass amp

[Liquid5150]

This is a bass amplifier I've been working on. I used a 15 inch speaker I ordered online, and a radioshack PA head with 120 watts. I built the enclosure out of fiberboard and covered it with black paint mixed with anti skid. It sounds as good as any amp I've ever played through.
It's not gorgeous but in a dark bar no one would notice the little imperfections I think.

What do you think?

[CapnCrunchDaPimp]

That looks like you did a good job dude, you know what you're doing. I'd love to hear it, I bet it sounds fantastic. That's pretty cool though.

[mysticmonkey2]

Dude, that is fucking awesome.

[Prinzy2]

As long as it sounds good, that's all that matters. I don't deal with much electronics so I couldn't tell you if it looks good or not, but I'd say it's alright.

[TheSilverGuitar]

At 5/10/09 11:46 AM, Liquid5150 wrote: It's not gorgeous but in a dark bar no one would notice the little imperfections I think.

Are you kidding? It's beautiful! At least for me, because I have a mild DIY fetish.

[therealanimator]

nice job. i hope it works. if it does then im impressed.

[MsiScars2780]

It should be tubbed.

[Liquid5150]

Ok I recorded a little demo. The clicking sound you are hearing is my fingers hitting the bass. I didn't have it turned up real loud and I was close to the mic. Here it is.

The whole thing cost me about 200 dollar, thats not counting the fact I had tools and screws and stuff. I have video clips of the stages of contruction that I'm gonna put together and slap on youtube.

[SuperFlonic]

At 5/10/09 11:48 AM, andhination wrote: If you actually did it, I'm quite impressed.

In fact, I have a feeling you're not shitting us.

I'm impressed.

It's not incredibly hard to do, but some technical experience is useful.
So it's not that odd people are not shitting us.

[Mansell]

Thats a Ghetto Amp man, nice one.

[HungarianSupermarket]

Wait, what? You are using a PA amp instead of one designed for bass?

[RoobyKillAll]

Good job dude. I love seeing people put together stuff like this and it actually works. Has a good original look to it and you know now one else has the same amp as you. Kudos.