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So are you happy with the Low Plate Classic for your Strat tones? How do they compare with the Fenders you were playing before? Especially the clean tones.

Thanks Gentlemen. all excellent info. i have used the search function but haven't found anything that really pointed me in the right direction. i certainly appreciate all of the replies. i am currently building a mad scientist breadboard for amp experimentation so i will definitely design with my pa...

I figured it was time to build something that was D inspired but i don't really know where to start. I really enjoy Robben Ford's tones but i will be playing single coils 90% of the time. Any suggestions as what circuits would sound best with single coils? Thanks, JMac

i don't post much but i do read a lot of the stuff here and learn quite a bit from the folks here.. very informative site. thanks.

diode rectifier. tubes are fine. i put them in another amp and they work great.

My Bassman started blowing fuses for some reason yesterday. I played it with no problems Monday and Tuesday and yesterday it started blowing fuses. I was banging out some power chords and it just dies. I replaced the fuse and went back to the power cords and it died again. I replaced the fuse again ...

what do you say to a musician in a 3 piece suit?
will the defendant please rise.

[quote="Firestorm"]There's a useful mod that Dave Funk used to do: you take V1 and wire the second triode as a direct coupled cathode follower (like on a blonde Bassman) and feed the tone stack and volume from there. For tone recovery, you swipe half of V3 (which won't bother you since you don't wan...

thanks ampgeek. that clears that up. the layout there is different from the one posted here. thanks again.

anyone?

hey Normster.
is the layout posted here at the ampgarage current? how about the BOM from Brownnote? there seems to be some discrepancies between the 2. am i missing something somewhere? thanks, jmac

hello UR12.
that's a great sounding amp. i want to experiment with parallel SE. any good diagrams to help get me started? is it as simple as it sounds to hook up? thanks. jmac

I don't personally get the Dr.Z thing. I've never heard one that I liked and wouldn't waste my time building one. Allynmey[/quote] i don't really get it either. i had a MAZ Sr. for about 2 weeks. very nice amp. i took a look under the hood and i didn't see anything that i hadn't seen before. but it ...

hey OldHouseScott, where are you in SC? i'm in charleston.

not the neatest work i've seen. but if they sound good, what does it matter?