Tube Amp Archive

Well it "sounds like" there may be some grounding issues, but a smarter person on this board can speak to that. One thing I can tell you is, that even without the bottom plate on my wreck, it wasn't a huge difference in the buzz/hum. There was a little, but I suspect from the locational position of...

Oh, I also have a second room in my studio that is sound resistant, has 4" conduit for cables to go through, and has double paned glass between the two rooms. I'm just usually too lazy to use it. But if I were tracking with this amp for a while, I'd probably put the cab and mic in the other room, an...

Be careful with your hearing, I know. That said, a good trick is to wear earplugs under your headphones. Then you can crank the phones and get the music track above the leakage but the plugs keep your ears from hearing it super loud. You have to be a bit careful to not blow the phones, and a good t...

Here's a more metal sounding tune. This one's got the full arrangement, not a demo. I just muted the old guitars, and played 2 new tracks with the trainwreck. This song had vocals, but I muted them as they may be offensive to some people, and this is about the guitars. Not the lyrics. There are two ...

As promised, here's some pics and mp3's of the amp. Notice how there's hum at the end of the song. That's with the guitar volume turned down. I believe it to be 120hz hum. It sounds to me like an octave higher than 60hz hum from the guitar pickups. Everything in the amp is the Triode Electronics kit...

Donzoid, I followed your advice and put the 25w resistor up a bit. I may put some caulk under one or both edges of it to secure it in place a little better. Not gonna fill the whole bottom as that would defeat the purpose of raising it. But Just secure it a little more. But that's for later. Just a ...

Thanks for the responses. I had read HobbswheresCalvins build thread as well as his post where he linked to a live recording and their myspace. Kind of sucks that the live recording wasn't just the express, and wasn't the best recording. And the myspace link no longer works. But from some of the dem...

Hi guys, I'm new here. Have been lurking for the past week or so, and I think it's time to make a post. I ordered the Express kit from triodeusa. They provide a layout, which is pretty much the same as the one here, but they don't provide anything else like instructions or a schematic. In my many go...