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Hi Guys,
I really want to build an astroid. The original was the best amp I ever owned. I feel pretty comfortable wiring and soldering but making boards and punching a chassis may be a bit much.

Anybody make a chasis and board for this amp?

Thanks,
Paul

Interesting,
I changed it again and verified the change.

Sorry again for the trouble.

Wow,
I guess I've been gone longer than I thought. Sorry about that.
I just fixed the email.

I'd really like to see any schematics or layouts you have.

Thanks,
Paul

Hi guys, It's been a while. I'm back at work which means I'm getting close to having dough for another build. I just can't figure out what to build. I LOVED my Komet K-60 but wanted voicing a little closer to Marshall and an amp that can handle pedals well. The k-60 is picky. I played a 1969 50 watt...

Bump,
The wife and kids are leaving in a few days. It might be my only opportunity to really give this a go....

Tom,
Have you thought of making a stethascope (sp) using a battery powered amp and a resistor tied to a chopstick? It's cool to help localize sound irregularities.

It's not as cool at finding carrier waves etc as a real scope but it can help...

Just made an order for these tubes today. What do you guys thing of the following output tubes? JAN-Philips 6L6WGB (NOS) TAD 6L6WGC-STR Winged "C" (SED) 6L6GC Tung-Sol 6L6GC-STR The only pair of Winged C I tried had one fail shortly, not a large enough test to determine if this is a real problem or...

I have a set of STR's in my Super Reverb. They are just huge sounding. Sent the black pates paking in a hurry.

Has anyone tried the short bottle TAD's or Shuguangs which I think are the same?

I got them becaue I read a really good review somewhere and was ordering a bassman opt. As I was going to start experimenting, I thought it would be better to do it on these than the NOS RCA's, just in case.... I'm past 6 months even though these these have less than ten hours on them. They sound pr...

Hi Guys,
I just had a set of Ruby tubes GLGGCMSTR go bad on me. They have about 10 hours on them. This is the second time I've had a set of Ruby's go bad. Not a big deal but I've only used them twice.

Anybody else have similar issues or is it just me?

Just curious if this circuit has been verified. It looks pretty cool.

They have one that is 2,4 ,8 . I think I would have preferred 4,8,16.

I think mine is 2 0r 4H @ 90 ma as well.

I noticed a similar change when I did the OD entrance mod. I'm not sure if it's actually brighter or just stiffer but it's surely different.

I got a bassman OT from Ruby. I heard it was what HD used. I got a standard Fender twin choke. The choke really enhanced the responsiveness of the amp and deepened the overall tone. Every lead tone was just on the edge of feedback, in a good way. When I swapped out the OT, the tone got much bassier,...

LOL, Well, I sort of did the OD entrance mod... I left the jumper under the board in place so I had it paralled with the 220K resistor. :oops: Removing it seemed to quiet things down a bunch. I had a problem with the lead channel being like 3X louder than the clean side with an insane amount of gain...