The Amp Garage

I have been considering just padding with a resistor and a pot to get down to line level, that's kind of where I started. Electronics is my profession and it can be a curse because the questions are never ending. I started to think about the fact that resistors aren't the same reactive load as a spe...

Man, you just killed the next 2 hours for me by showing me this. There's a bunch of them and they're all great!

I'm trying to decide if I should build an Airbrake, or how I should build it, stock or with some type of modification. I've read a lot of good things about them but part of the reason that I'm still not sure is I would like to investigate reamping along with lowering my volume (my Express build is c...

I don't know what the Lexicon sounds like but my first mod was a Fender Bassmanhead to a "Bluesmaker". I thought that it was pretty good but that was a fifty watter and I only cranked it a few times (2 or 3). It sounded pretty close to a regular Bassman at low volumes. I do remember that I didn't ge...

I'm finding 3 groups of opinions on this. 1. Guys that see the theoretical difference. 2. Guys that can't see the actual difference. 3. Guys that can't prove the actual difference. With all due respect to everybody, my opinion is that we all fall into every group. If I were able to see a difference ...

I can't believe how good this is, I need some time for my stomach msucles to recover from laughing so hard! I love the original (Tender Surrender) but this is better! I started crying during the Smoke on the Water/Stairway to Heaven middle section. Only one thing, with a sense of humour like this, h...

Hi Guys, My name is Darrin Howse. I was born in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, raised in a small town in a house 30 feet from the Atlantic Ocean, and I now live in Pickering, Ontario (on the eastern edge of Toronto). I'm 41 and am married to a wonderful woman who pretty much never complains about all...

If that resistor is what I think it is (1 Ohm used with the next capacitor as a spike filter), then you can just remove it (and the cap, although you can leave the cap if you like). I'd be willing to bet a pretty large sum of money that you will not notice any change in tone or reliability of the am...

I'm glad to hear your response. I was starting to wonder if there was something wrong with my ears. I mean, I had an oscillation once but I never solved it by reversing a cap (although I was so desperate that I tried it). Has anybody ever performed any testing to prove a difference in tone between, ...

I can't believe that he had the audacity to use "store bought" caps in his radio. You need the vintage "hand made" ones to get the real tone.

This seems to happen to me all of the time. I find out some seemingly great way to improve my tone or make my amp more robust against oscillations and I can't seem to make it happen. I went to Aiken's site, downloaded the article on cap polarity, went to my scope, performed the test, and there is no...

Just did a search and found some stuff. Looks interesting.

I'm thinking about using the spare half triode to add a tremolo circuit to my express clone build. Anybody do that yet?

Darrin

You asked about the discolored resistor. If it opens due to stress (it looks like a metal oxide, 2 or 3 watter, so it should be flameproof) then you will lose your B+, or at least part of it, and essentially your amp will not work. If you want to do a quick check (Cover my butt statement, don't do i...

Exactly what I'm thinking. Get it right, then feel free to mess around as I like.

Are you happy with the sound of yours, no oscillations, etc?

Darrin