The preamps in Echolette NG51 are CRAZY. they are maybe "too much" for me when fed straight into amp input, but work like a charm as an outboard distortion. the NG51 was an impulse buy on romanian marketplace - I bought it solely based on its looks and the fact, that it lit on one picture, the seller didn't have any capacity to test it, but the price was worth the risk. Amazingly, it works! the tape is a bit worn and it is a bit noisy overall, but still very much usable.
the blonde cab is Echolette ET1 I bought for pennies some months ago. The original alnico speaker sounded amazing, kinda similar to celestion alnico gold, but with less headroom. Unfortunately, I misread the power rating and I fried it on it's first rig with my 50w jcm 800 2204 head
It sounded amazing, but only for a little while 
I recently replaced the original fried speaker with JBL E120 and it sounds freaking amazing, I really fell in love with that sound especially when paired with the marshall - it pushes it more towards blackface territory, which is very ok in my world - I love the jcm 800, but I never went for that typical marshall 4 by 12 thing. the amp on the right is my trusty old Mesa/Boogie Mark I, my main amp for years. The combination of mesa's Altec 417, Black Shadow C90 in the 1x12 cab on the bottom (sounds very boxy compared to the other two speakers, but it provides great midrange for the mix) and JBL E120 in the Echolette cab is nothing but amazing.
oh and the guitar. I was searching for non-original Jolana Alexandra I could modify without regrets for years, and I found the ultimate one.
It started life as Jolana Alexandra Super 3 - a close cousin to legendary Tornado, but in my eyes a bit more advanced - but the middle pickup was removed and route professionally patched, pickups swapped for amazing Simeto Type 3 pickups (seen on Musima/Migma guitars of 60s and 70s), overally it is sort of a "best of" compilation made out of eastern bloc parts from late 60s, except for modern tuners - Jolana Alexandra body and neck with east german pickups and hardware. It had a recent professional refret job and the whole thing was put together by somebody who knew what they were doing, it feels amazing straight out of the box. The only mod I am planning to do is to get rid of the non compensated floating bridge (it tends to move around a bit too much) and replace it with TOM drilled into the wood (ES 330 kind of setup). The pickups sound fat and punchy and the whole thing enables me to control the feedback in a very musical way - I can get infinite sustained notes with fuzz whenever I like. A quick wanky demo from the day I got it can be seen here - instagram video
