Salvage (RE-)build.Soundin good!

[gary sanders]

I just replaced the 10watt 300 ohm resistor in the PS with a choke.Unbelievable difference.Love it.Just wanted to share that.

This used to be a Carvin Xamp.Want to drive the 5band eq with some tubes.I have an extra socket!

My second build.Quite happy with it.Mid boost is a little muddy and pops when switched but im tone tweakin first.

Amazing what you can do with junk just layin around!

[Structo]

Nice conversion Gary.
On your mid boost did you put a 4.7M resistor from the switch to ground?
That is to prevent popping.

[M Fowler]

Nice job Gary looks great.

[stelligan]

Tweak on! Looks good. Wish I had an extra choke floatin' around. Sure makes a difference.

[gary sanders]

Nice conversion Gary.
On your mid boost did you put a 4.7M resistor from the switch to ground?
That is to prevent popping.

yep I need to check my connection on that cause its sure making a noise when you flip the switch

[gary sanders]

Guess I could have put the knobs on before postin a pic.......

and those are the screw mounted turrets I was asking about.so far so good!

[greiswig]

I just replaced the 10watt 300 ohm resistor in the PS with a choke.Unbelievable difference.

Gary, I know it's hard to describe subjective things, but I haven't heard much about the change in feel/tone of changing from resistor to choke. Can you tell your experience?

[BobW]

Looks good Gary, how are your plate voltages?

[gary sanders]

Looks good Gary, how are your plate voltages?

The power end is dead on.A little high on the preamp but I put some crap tubes in for the first launch,I have a sweet old GE for #1 and a couple other goodies.My friend whose father was a radio tech since the 50s hooked me up on some good ones.He has a caddy full of good old tubes.He also gave me the NOS orange drops.Havent put the good ones in yet.

Going to tweak the V2 snubbers,have a 300 on A and a 500 on B and I think the 500 is a bit much.Have a few caps to rotate cause I put the foil end backwards.Theres just a slight muddiness to it but not bad,but Im using the same caps and some resistors I had in it last time so maybe that will fix it when i do a little tweakin

I have a 500k bass pot and i may drop that to a 250k.

And I may be wrong but I saw on here,there was a discussion that mentioned the V2b grid resistor was changed,to like 120k or 100k or something.Id like to get a little more gain on me OD.I have an extra socket so I may just throw in another stage like on the X100b or 5150 schematic.

[gary sanders]

I just replaced the 10watt 300 ohm resistor in the PS with a choke.Unbelievable difference.

Gary, I know it's hard to describe subjective things, but I haven't heard much about the change in feel/tone of changing from resistor to choke. Can you tell your experience?

Youre right its hard to describe.I guess my hands just get along better with this amp with a choke in it.Maybe it could be the difference it made in the power R string,but all i know is thats the only thing I changed and it just sounds better,somehow it just seems to be more.....(thinking of a description)....alive.....hope that makes sense.Like the way your pick hand can accent a note or a chord.I should have made an audio clip before.When I do my EL34 ODS head I will do that just for fun and see if recorded audio can show the difference.

[gary sanders]

Did I mention it goes to 11?...........

[Structo]

Did you end up changing the grid resistor on V1b?

What did you use on V2b?

[gary sanders]

Not on V1b.I left it a 220k.Anything different work better?