Ruby Speaker Cabinets

[jlullo]

My next project (after i finish this fuzz face- which was put on earth to forsake me) is going to be a Ruby.  Well, Noisy Cricket.  I'm just wondering what size speaker you guys normally use (i'm assuming 10" or 8"), and where you normally get cabinets for those.  do you just build your own?

thanks!

[remmelt]

Hey, I've built my Ruby in the scavenged cab of  a Park practice amp. It has an 8" speaker. It also sounds good through the 10" Jensen I bought with my Champ kit.
See here for more Ruby goodness: http://remmelt.com/ruby/ 

[birt]

i use it on my 4 x 12"

[stobiepole]

Go to a beekeeping supplies store and get a bee hive - a pine finger-jointed box for roughly ten bucks US. It'll fit two 8" speakers, maybe a 10". Paint it with linseed oil. Easy!

Chris

[RLBJR65]

If you want one thats really portable, put it in an old computer speaker cab. Those 3" - 4" speakers are not the best but you can drag it around practically anywhere. Add a normally closed jack in the back so the speaker can be switched on / off that way you plug it into another cab any time you want.

[scaesic]

hi! i have that exact same park amp! i havnt used it for years!!! whats the ruby sound like? is it worth taking the park apart for it? is it pretty low in volume? any mods to increase the volume? what about cascaded op-amps?

[jonathan perez]

Go to a beekeeping supplies store and get a bee hive - a pine finger-jointed box for roughly ten bucks US. It'll fit two 8" speakers, maybe a 10". Paint it with linseed oil. Easy!

Chris

will do!

[scaesic]

what about using a LM386N-4 and running it off 18v?

[christobean]

it can handle 18 volts, but be prepared to use a heat sink

[scaesic]

what kind of volumes can it reach clean? im not sure theres any point in taking apart the park if its going to be hepas lwer volume, which it probably will ey?

[scaesic]

on the positive side i could canabalise he park for its heatsink configuration.

is there any other power-amp chips which i could sub in to increase the headroom/volume?

[Quackzed]

??!!
12" speaker !
dude, its a guitar amp! use a 12
unless you have a good 10 collecting dust and your short on change...
just make sure its an 8 ohm or 16... a 4 ohm might give you some ugly distortion depending on what chip and voltage you run at
but for the regular ruby, i'd say do what most amp makers do and use a 12" speaker

also if you can find an old box for it, look for something the size of a small amp like 16" x 16" x 12 or around there, something a little more flexible than wood maybee, for more bass... like one of those old suitcases or maybee even an old extention speaker box? a little 'give' to the cab will add some low end and some warmth that you'll like! 

[dennism]

How about a combo amp built into a wooden cigar box?  I even made a cigar box "stack" with the head being built into a Hammond box and the cabinet being a cigar box with a couple of small speakers built into it.

[tcobretti]

I used a 6x9 speaker in a trapezoidal box that used to hang on the wall as a intercom speaker at a school.  Got it at a thrift store for $1.

[dano12]

Hey, I've built my Ruby in the scavenged cab of  a Park practice amp. It has an 8" speaker. It also sounds good through the 10" Jensen I bought with my Champ kit.
See here for more Ruby goodness: http://remmelt.com/ruby/ 

Whoa....



Remalt, that is the simply the best looking Ruby ever--two thumps up.

[sfr]

I got an 8" guitar speaker that the music shop had ordered as a replacement for a Champ or something, and then the guy never came in.  Decent sounding.

Then I went around the corner to the junk shop and picked up a single stereo speaker box for a couple bucks.  Opened it up, trashed the crappy sounding (trust me, I tried) oringinal speaker in the thing, and replaced it with the one I bought.  I took out the horn/tweeter thing, and used the rectangular hole where that was to mount the controls and circuit.  Worked out well.  The whole thing ended up costing me under 15 bucks in parts.

[jlullo]

thanks so much for the responses guys!  you all have me a lot of good ideas

[Opencan]

Hey, I've built my Ruby in the scavenged cab of  a Park practice amp. It has an 8" speaker. It also sounds good through the 10" Jensen I bought with my Champ kit.
See here for more Ruby goodness: http://remmelt.com/ruby/ 

All thoes holes and space just BEG to be filled with some controls, tweeks and even built in effects.
Some onboard overdrive \ distortion can fit in pretty nice in my opinion.

Great coloring !

I was thinking of doing the same thing to my BC Rich 10W amp when I'll get a new amp. I've just opened it yesterday (to see if I can add a footswitch controller to the overdrive, which came out a really easy task) and it had TONS of room. Even a newbie like myself could have made it 1/4 the place, which leaves 3/4 of the room for anything that seems usefull.

[Hanglow]

I've got the same Park G10 as that, and it's also broken. That looks really good! I think I'll strip it and paint it all white, keeping the black face.

might put in a couple of onboard effects as suggested, maybe an od and reverb.

[scaesic]

I've got the same Park G10 as that, and it's also broken. That looks really good! I think I'll strip it and paint it all white, keeping the black face.

might put in a couple of onboard effects as suggested, maybe an od and reverb.

just a thought, when mine broke down i replaced the power transistor (the one under the heatsink) and it worked fine.