Find great deals on ebay for harley benton ga5 and harley benton amp. Dont forget it looks like the ga5 is much simpler than the ga15. Big tone orange, wiring diagram the harley benton club. The link is to my utube vid where ive shown a demo of sound samples from clean through metal, with both the stock speaker and through a 1960a cab as w. The harley benton product pages have the most hits. Software can be found in the download section of the product page selfexecuting. Epiphone schematics for valve specialvalve standard tmb conversionarchived from 18watt and epi valve std mods from 18watt active threads and schematics, and blues custom 30 schematic valve special valve standard blues custom 30 schematic blackheart schematics little giant killer ant rowbis blackheart mod page harley benton ga5 schematics. I just scored a harley benton ga5 5w amp with a view to doing some mods. Hi and welcome to my listing for this mod cd for the harley benton ga15 valve combo. Search for harley benton ga5 or epiphone valve junior schematics. Harley benton streetbox60, compact portable battery powered amplifier with great features for playalong and singalong with streamed music using the integrated bluetooth feature, ideal for electric guitar, acoustic guitar, ukulele, vocals and music, 60 watt rms, 2 x 5,5 full. Im not sure if theres any significant difference between the vj and the benton modelthey look the same. I picked up a used harley benton ga5 head a while back intending to mod it, still havent got around to it. The harley benton club forum is a privately managed forum, bringing together both owners of harley benton products and those that search for information on them.
Electric guitar kit tstyle complete diy do it yourself kit, bolton neck, solid wood body wood colour may vary, neck. Harley benton cg10x street user manual pdf download. Yet sometimes its so far to get the harley benton ga5 manual book, also in various other countries or cities. One shouldnt expect a topquality amplifier for just 140 box, but hey, how wrong could you go with a nicelooking little amp powered by two el84 tubes. Amaranth, dot fretboard inlays, double action truss rod, neck profile. I prefered the ga5 because it already had the hole for the tone. This all analog pedal is a copyish of the tech21 liverpool pedal and its supposed to sound like an ac30 whether plugged directly onto a pa system, a computer, a clean amp or almost anything else. The harley benton ga5 is essentially a badge engineered epi valve jr with the addition of a tone control. In the beginning, when harley benton tube amps arrived, the ga5 was 99 eur and epiphone valve junior 169 eur. Can easily be replaced with a fixed value resistor to make it identical to the epi. Theres a bit of solid state circuit in there for the effects loop and line out. It uses one 12ax7 in the preamp, two tl072 type integrated circuits in the equalizationeffects send and return buffer ampsline out, and a 12ax7 phase splitter feeding into a cathodebiased class ab, pushpull output section. Before i bought my epi vj, i asked a thomann salesperson about any differences.
An electroharmonix 12ax7 preamp in enclosed by a cover shield is a super light with a lot of gain, personal love. Finally i got the joyo ac tone pedal that ive been wanting for some time and i had a good go at it. I sincerely hope youll help me out once more with some things. Hello forum i have bought a used harley benton ga5 tube amp a couple of weeks ago pretty much the same as the valve jr, except the. For those who dont know, the harley benton ga15 is a 15 watt, hybrid valvesolid state combo using a 10. The marble max seemed too small and i wanted to build something big. Hi guys, just finished work on my harley benton ga5 amp and would be interested in your comments, suggestions, opinions and of course criticisms. Im still working on the modding of the harley benton ga5.
Within the last month our visitors have visited the product pages of this manufacturer more than 4. Its going to get an extra 8 ohm out jack too, but dont have any monos, so will have to use two stereos of a different to get them aligned. By the way i know barely anything about valvetube amps and am trying to learn. We do not own the brand name harley benton, nor are we affiliated with harley benton, saein guitars, or any other harley benton seller or manufaturer in any way. Harley benton ga15 tube amp discussion in amp input normal or bright.
I am a novice at electronics and schematics and this has taken me ages to understand but im there now. Epiphonr junior valve vs harley benton ga5 my les paul forum. Normally harley benton grants a 2 year warranty on its products but with our 3year thomann warranty you are covered for one year more. In the picture you see various devices for which this modification is useful. I havent opened it up yet, so dont know any of the voltages. Harley benton ga5 stock schematics filename hb ga5 stock. The harley is identical to the epi aside from an added tone control of questionable usefulness. He said he preferred the vj over the ga5, since it has a bit better speaker. Harley benton ga5 the same amp as the epiphone vj v2 with the addition of an eq control and redesigned cream colour cabinet made in the same factory, just a different name badge on the front of the amp. How harley benton ga5 manual, many people also need to acquire before driving. View and download harley benton cg10x street user manual online. Harley bentonvalve junior amps discussions on thefretboard. They both have an ecc82 and el84 with gain and a single tone control.
I was told by one of the members here that the quality varied between brands, and that eastwood and revelation were the bestmade ones in his qualified opinion. I placed straplocks, upgraded the stringtrees and the nut to graptech, changed the tuners to harley benton locking tuners, placed compensated bridge sadles and placed a fender 4way tele switch i discovered that the original switch used the same pickup configuration in both position 1 and 2. Where can i find schematics and the latest valve junior mods. Harley benton is the house brand of thomann, europes largest online music retailer and, if im not mistaken, i bought a ga15 for some 140 euros from that web shop in 2010. Just wondering has anybody any experience with the harley benton ga5. Before i think too deeply about the possible mods, id like to understand the circuit a bit better. They are great starter amps if you want to get into the tube world. After modifying the harley benton ga5, i wanted a reference. Modifikations on a harley benton ga5, diode clipping marshall eq, gainpot.
The epiphone valve junior and the harley benton ga 5 are almost identical in construction, but there are slightly different versions. I know that there are a list of mandocaster brands coming out of almost certainly one factory in china including eastwood, alden, clearwater, morgan monroe, revelation and now harley benton. Its of similar build quality as the smaller harley benton ga5, which is based on the extremely popular epiphone valve junior. I swapped the output tranny for the hammond cse, and it works fine, so now i enter the walhalla of this modding project, the extra tube mod ii. I have also tried a champion 600 and imo, the speaker sounded a bit too thin. Harley benton electric guitar kit tstyle thomann united. Harley benton ga15 tube amp fender stratocaster guitar forum.
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