The Amp Garage

Chris, what pickups do you have in your strat? The neck is from an Amalfitano 62 set and the middle is the neck pickup of an Amalfitano SP set. I like the hotter middle pickup set lower for the 2/4 settings. The bridge is a DiMarzio DP188 Pro Track. To me, it's the best sc sized humbucker on the ma...

Chris Cool demo!. :D One question what are you using as a treble cap? A Sliver mica or a Ceramic? Tony Thanks :-) 390pf Silver Mica Cool! So here is the deal with using a SM in an ODS. 1st Dumble rarely if at all used them.(I think I have seen them only in 2nd gen amps) He normally stayed away from...

I have the master bright cap on a switch and run it with the cap disconnected when I'm not using a Dumbleator, or if the master isn't cranked way up. I also have the gain (od level) control set up with a dual-pot that gradually brings in an HF taper as a turn it up. That evens out the brightness of...

Nice job, Chris! The HRM (OD tone stack) is valuable to tune the OD EQ to match the clean channel. You can add an HRM stack pretty simply with a bit of additional eyelet board. Nice mode for ODS amps. I still haven't tried the HRM stack... I have been thinking about adding it to my ex-124... It's b...

talbany wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:59 pm Chris
Cool demo!.
One question what are you using as a treble cap? A Sliver mica or a Ceramic?

Tony

Thanks 390pf Silver Mica

I've been experimenting with jazz mode and there are really some cool tones to be had. In this video I go through clean, overdrive, and a fuzz face into clean.

Chris, I've been doing a lot of digging on D-Clone overdrive with a strat. I think I even came across a youtube video that you put out on the subject. Thanks for doing that. Regarding jazz mode, I came across an old post by Max that has resulted in the best strat overdrive that I have found so far ...

I've been messing around in Jazz mode, which doesn't seem to have a great reputation here, but it really has some cool sounds. I'm almost getting a clean Marshall sound.... it works great with my Stratocaster. With the overdrive on it has a killer crunch. The amp I'm using is a straight up 102 copy ...

OK, I am going to have to respectfully, absolutely, disagree with the last couple posts. Coupling capacitor outer foil orientation does affect the sound of the amp and the overall feel of the amp. Guys like Gil and Tony who have built a lot of amps and play out a lot have been talking about this fo...

Bombacaototal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:32 pm Also curious on which method are folks here using to determine the outside foil of 6PS Orange Drops caps, is there a pattern on the lettering? Or we always have to go through an oscilloscope?

I did the method where you listen for the less noisy orientation.

Hey everyone, I want to give a huge thank you! I just finished another build... this time #102 with a few tweaks such as extra relays. I put together a full video from the clips I made as I built the amp. The best part is probably when I realize the overdrive relay is wired backward lol https://yout...

In my most recent build I used "mojotone vintage taper" 30% taper pots for the tone stack. The usable range feels better than my last build in which I used the standard 10% taper potentiometers.

The toggles allow you to do things like activate pab automatically when overdrive is engaged or activate fet and bright when clean is engaged. One caveat is that if you have multiple relays toggled to activate on clean/overdrive, and then you use the stomp switch to activate one of them, it will act...

Dumble has been known to influence positive feedback into a circuit through the routing of certain wires in close proximity to one another...Like Gil mentions these practices have the tendency to make the amp unstable. The trick is knowing which ones you can play with and which ones you can't BTW.D...

Chris, in you version of the Dlator, it appears that you are grounding the jacks at the sleeve through their connection to the chassis. Some builds have discussed isolating the jacks. Have you had any issues your way…loop hum? Ange It's quite a while later but in case anyone wanders across this in ...