How do you know when to stop tweaking?

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candh
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Re: How do you know when to stop tweaking?

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Luthierwnc wrote:A more severe symptom of the disease is when you start planning your next amp before you actually finish the one on the bench. Skip
This one made me laugh...My name is all over that "dis" ease.
Tubetwang
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Re: How do you know when to stop tweaking?

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if the amp plays well then, i leave it alone and...huh...play it... :roll:
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briane
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Re: How do you know when to stop tweaking?

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A more severe symptom of the disease is when you start planning your next amp before you actually finish the one on the bench. Skip
I would say a worse symptom is setting you alarm an hour early so you have time to solder in the morning before work, just cause its fun.

ha, ha!

Thats my life....I thought it was normal. You gotta know what your doing, so you can get the parts on order, so you dont have time you want to build, and nothing to build.

Of course I do the whole, dont exactly like that amp, strip it down, do another all the time.

each amp gets tweaked for about a week or a bit longer, being constantly compared to my so far best sounding build. This I think is really the best method. If you can get that new amp to sing like your best, then your probably done. But youve gotta build 4 or 5 (at least) of them nearly exactly the same before 1 build in particular starts to really stand out.

some would say I am sick. I would say devoted and often bored. I've been told I constantly run at a 100 mph's though, so it might be true.
it really is a journey, and you just cant farm out the battle wounds
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