The Amp Garage

At my Uni they were cleaning basements, everything was supposed to be recycled, thankfully I knew who to talk with and ... I got 2 boxes full of tubes, some NOS, some used - EL84/86, ECL82/86, EZ80/81, ECC81/82/83/88, ELL80, EF86 and other ... more than 100 tubes.

When people (most of them) achieve some level of earnings (for instance, they've got few millions in a bank), they stop treating money as an element that allows them to survive. They start looking for new challanges, they're not willing to earn more money just to have them in wallet but to fulfill s...

Ernie Ball 11-54 on my Tele, I like the feel of fat low E. Before, I used Fender Bulltes 10-52 - imho great string, kind of pain that Fender does not make them in 11-54 size... .

Poland - ~6.3$/gal
Average salary ~ 1000$ .....

Reading this as a future graduate ( ~6months probably) in EE doesn't make me optymistic...

How to wear can be some time a tough thing, all in all, it's always better to be clothed too officially than too casual. It is good to be prepared for different situations, i would go for nice shirt and a tie in briefcase - you can always put it on in 30 sec in the toilet. I remember when I had a sp...

How about designing PCB for preamp with on-board relays ?

Bad socket ?

I will have a few Russian 6H9C (6SL7), beside, I have not decided what tubes use in overall (I have acquired a bunch of tubes recently - see photo + got one smaller box).

Not sure if I like Marshall type sound

Schematic shown below would be my major inspiration, the presence circuit has an error which should be corrected. This is in my opinion one of the best clean amps I've ever played, additionaly, I would add parallel second clean, maybe 6SL7 like in old fender amps, I'm not sure...grid-leak is interes...

I've got already amp with 2x6L6GC clean with some D influence + reverb, great sounding but when you turn it over 12, in a apartment - unusable...I need bedroom amp with recording output, thinking about 2xECL82 (6BM8). Whole amp on PCB.

Idea is quite simple, I really enjoy playing clean channel, more than overdriven channel. 2 differently voiced channels could be used as 'normal' tone and 'solo'. With two separate inputs, I could also put a booster/drive in front of one channel and get this nice breaking tone or switch back to seco...

What do you think about this idea ? If you were to build this kind of amp, what would you choose ?

You can always buy additional seat...