Recapping a Laney Klipp 100

[Zozobra]

I'm currently doing a cap job on a Laney Klipp 100 and I thought I'd share a few piccies of the process.

The Klipp on the workpile:


Old Filters, some have spunked their guts out as you can see:


Preamp and filters, one has snapped off leaving the PI unfiltered so its fucking noisy:


I've gone with F+T 450V caps. I've increased the capacitance a little bit to improve the noise floor a little.

Main filters replaced:



Next up I need to replace the bias and preamp caps then its good to test but thats a job for tomorrow.

[Zozobra]

And done, not that its attracted a great deal of attention

[Elessar [Sly]]

Nice one dude. Any Klipps?

can't believe I just did that

[Zozobra]

I haven't made any. I might do though. It sounds glorious clean and the klipp channel has the awesome raw fuzzyness to it but still cleans up to a nice far warm tone. I could noodle on the neck pickup of a strat for hours on this amp. Soon It'll return to its rightful owner. I wont be sad though as I share a rehearsal room with him so I get to smash it with fuzz pedals at high volume

[Elessar [Sly]]

haha cool stuff! congrats as well. I hope he paid you well for your services.

[Zozobra]

All for cost and a few beers! He's a good friend of mine and we often rig share.

[Elessar [Sly]]

That is certainly fairy muff!

[100 watt]

Love it. Some good Gut Shot PPr0n. Never saw the inside of a Klipp before.

I had the chance to buy a Klipp several years ago, but passed on it. I wish now I had bought it.

[Zozobra]

They certainly had their own way of doing layouts which is always cool to learn from. Pretty neat for how complicated some of it is although I'd hate to build one like that.

It really does sound awesome. The clean tones are to die for. Its got that british flavour but without that aggressive mid range honk that I don't like in the cleans of a JMP. Its also ferociously loud and punchy now the caps have been swapped. I'll get to play it loud with dirt pedals pretty soon!

[Elessar [Sly]]

I need to stop looking at amps... GAS is getting bad right now.