New surfin' amp
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New surfin' amp
Finished this last w/e - based on a BF amp with old flame reverb and 6G16 bias-vary trem wrapped in a tweed style chassis. Weighs a ton. Quite loud and surfy. Sounds good with my Jazzie.
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Nice! Really nice! 
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NICE!
Any sound clips yet ?
I've got a Hoffman version of that in the works; board's done, transformers just arrived & its also going in a tweed-style chassis w/2-12 cab.
Got to do all the chassis holes/drilling next.
Looking forward to getting it going, glad to hear you like yours.
Any sound clips yet ?
I've got a Hoffman version of that in the works; board's done, transformers just arrived & its also going in a tweed-style chassis w/2-12 cab.
Got to do all the chassis holes/drilling next.
Looking forward to getting it going, glad to hear you like yours.
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Another fine looking amp!
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I like the dress you bought for it!
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Yeah, gingham plaid? Very '60's! Nice job!Reeltarded wrote:I like the dress you bought for it!
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Very cool, working in those tweed chassis's are a bit tight for fat fingered me (although this looks wider than say a deluxe for example), good job Man!
Regards,
Don
Regards,
Don
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Tubeswell this looks like something I built. Lots of "random" cap choices and really just using whatever I have on hand at the time. Then again nothing is ever truly random, I like to think of my cap choices more as fate (it was this caps fate to run across my hand at the time that I needed that value 
). FWIW I tend to use my (supposedly) aurally superior caps earlier on in an amp (first stage, tonestack) where the subtle differences I think have a larger influence over the final sound. Don't know if you do the same, just something that I got in the habit of doing for whatever reason.
Also do you prewire the PCB's before you install them or wire everything once the board is installed?
). FWIW I tend to use my (supposedly) aurally superior caps earlier on in an amp (first stage, tonestack) where the subtle differences I think have a larger influence over the final sound. Don't know if you do the same, just something that I got in the habit of doing for whatever reason.Also do you prewire the PCB's before you install them or wire everything once the board is installed?
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What's that row of grommets at the far right (input) side of the circuit board?
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Looks like either a ground "buss" or he ran a few test eyelets before starting the main ones 
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the ground buss for the pre-amp (goes to the input jack ground(s))Zippy wrote:What's that row of grommets at the far right (input) side of the circuit board?
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Yep - just grabbed what was on top of the stash/pileCliff Schecht wrote:Tubeswell this looks like something I built. Lots of "random" cap choices and really just using whatever I have on hand at the time. Then again nothing is ever truly random,
Populate the board, then wire the whole board in, then subsequently fix the bits that I should've got right the first timeCliff Schecht wrote:Also do you prewire the PCB's before you install them or wire everything once the board is installed?
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