Evil Amp Wizard Do's and Don'ts

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BTF wrote:So according to your website, if I finally get the amp, I'll enjoy the thrill of sounding as if the love child of Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen was playing SRV on Jimmy Page's Les Paul through Robben Ford's Dumble D.I.'d into David Gilmour's rig while making me look like a mid-70's Nancy Wilson? :shock:
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That's pretty trivial, and since you don't mention what instrument you'd like to play but only describe the sound, I'd like to suggest this :twisted:
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Put some 5 megohm - 2 watt resistors in plain sight on top of the board wired into the circuit where there should be no resistors. On the back side of the board run a wire in parallel.
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5 megs is too low to be invisible to the circuit, get 1 Gigaohm, this will really make them wonder. (They are used as grid leaks in condenser microphones)
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Spot weld every connection.

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Insist the buyer must use NOS Mullards in the V2 position, and then only use one half of the triode in that position.
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Spot weld a mullard into V2 with the A side pins cut off.

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Dummy out-of-production inductors in every tonestack...
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mhartman wrote:Dummy out-of-production inductors in every tonestack...
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Some type of small metal mystery box soldered to the chassis with a spiral wire coming out the top.

I clearly recall the reviewers at Guitar Player Magazine being perplexed by such an item in their review of the Rosk Amp.

Also, passing B+ through some type of pot would be nice. The arcing inside the Rosk's tuning pot as it rotated seemed to frighten the editors at GP, might be good to impress buyers.
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Sounds scary just reading about it. :oops:
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BTF wrote:Some type of small metal mystery box soldered to the chassis with a spiral wire coming out the top.

I clearly recall the reviewers at Guitar Player Magazine being perplexed by such an item in their review of the Rosk Amp.

Also, passing B+ through some type of pot would be nice. The arcing inside the Rosk's tuning pot as it rotated seemed to frighten the editors at GP, might be good to impress buyers.
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