The Amp Garage

I love the Baaaawwwaaaaar! of a wound out AC just before it demands too too much supply.

Lovely looking amp there.

I think OSB material will be rough to deal with in the future. It might go together ok, but once it starts vibrating or being moved around, it will tend to shed material until it's fragile enough to break like granola. It doesn't like to glue up because even if it sticks, the material is likely to s...

Have you done a LIVE (amp on and in operate) tick test? With the master moderated so you don't jump if it POPS start at the PI input with a safe tool and touch each point in the signal path backwards toward the input. The first place you expect noise but detect nothing will tell you exactly what are...

Isn't this a late silver model with UL taps on output?

A tiny amount of deflection is all it takes, just the weight of a lead can produce the same symptom with a faulty pot.

You make me do bad things to great circuits that are naturally a little problematic.



I often wish my Liverpool was a Rocket.

He will never see this. They have to increase production by 120000% lol

Is tension pulling an exposed resistor lead to ground?

Otherwise, could be tension on a pot leg, could be a tiny nick in the sheath of a signal wire.. easy to sort out by checking continuity while OFF.

I think it is the input leg of an iffy potentiometer. I like guessing.

Here's one I did recently. Still learning, so not the neatest job... I used this cord. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096466JVD?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details I have also used string for sewing leather, which I think looks nicer, but doesn't have enough wax to stick to itself. I have also pla...

It's getting too commercial!!

I have Mullards in most of all amps V1. The 12ax7s ALL flash.

I also find them not to be critical as the quicksand so pervasive on TV from 1962-1984.

I do them in the corner on Marshall things, sometimes sheathed and parallel to each other. Fly them to the headshell shield and twisted on a tubes down amp.

Mark Fowler built an amp with them routed outside.

I would complain at you while saying that I have considered a similar thing.

It's a pinchy Express that can't make harmonics after 5 on the volume. lol

We can do HG here.

It won't be today, but I'll bet we can get a topical section for just that. We actually should have a long time ago.

I'll start begging.

It has been a year since a conversation with a friend who mentioned similar problems.. it may well be dead.