The Amp Garage

A quick look on the net tells me that a KT66 is 25W. Take a look at a few more sites to make sure though.

Darrin

As far as pictures go, it would be nice to get close enough on each section to read the values on the caps, but far enough away to be able to identify what portion of the amp it is. If this is a typical/traditional schematic, then it will probably be pretty easy to tell what it is. I'm interested in...

I don't see any wires going to the 3rd preamp tube except for heaters. Need more gut shots to tell, especially of the extra card on the rear. All high quality components from what I can see, metal film resistors, Sozo caps, etc. It looks to have individual bias trim pots. The gain pot is a dual gang...

Thanks Tim, it helps a lot. Your build looks great, it looks to me that you ran your wires the same way as KF. I may ask some more questions once I do a little more homework.

Darrin

I'm about to build an Express exactly as in the Francesca pictures (or at least that's what I'm going to attempt). I've built other amps and I know what I'd like to do to certain connections but I'm wondering what was done in Francesca. I think that I might learn a trick or two by building as KF did...

Speaking of flame wars, let's go easy on people who can't spell and don't preview their posts!

Allyn is touching on something that feel VERY strongly about. If we didn't have these forums, in short time these amps would not be heard by anybody. They have already become a legend, and as soon as prices started rising people who have NO interest in music would/will buy them up and you will NEVER...

I'm late to the discussion but I think the motive is obvious. If I had a legendary Trainwreck or two appreciating at about a bazillion dollars a year, I wouldn't want anybody selling clones or making them available. I would want the demand for the legend to remain extremely high and the supply to re...

Briane,

I'm encouraged by your comments, I probably would have asked about the Bassman iron sooner or later. I'm going to take a look for the ODS-101 non-HRM schematic so I can compare. I'm going to prepare for the build.

Darrin

I have pretty much decided to build the D'Lite. The thing about the D'Lite is the schematic and layout are there and ready to go. I figure I can get it into my Bassman head in a very short period of time, then I can get a baseline for what it sounds like. I know that I'll be tearing it apart to try ...

Thanks for the replies and the welcome. I looked through the Dumble Files section and found 2 Bassman clone posts. One by Heisthl and one by Normster. Not sure which one would suit me better. Looks like both put caps in the dog house. I need to look at them both closer as I thought I saw that the sc...

Hi Guys, This forum is amazing. Being new, I'm overwhelmed with the amount of information here. I've spent many hours over the last week looking through posts to try to determine which Dumble to build using my silverface Bassman head. Please help. The D'lite Bluesmaster sounds great but I can't matc...