Great report on your amp
My Komet has been a favorite by the guys looking for amps; however, the younger guys seem to be gravitating towards the four gain stage Marshall tone Like Splawn QuickRod or Nitro.
Add a pedal board infront of the Komet 60 and you can hold your own in a band. It was too loud for my band so I have been running the Reverb Rocket mostly. Dana Hall has a nice foot switching system for the Komet either for the K50 Concorde or K60. I really didn't have the room to put that in this amp.
Mark
Komet 60 type build
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Re: Komet 60 type build
Passfan,
Did you reduce the size of the Fast/Gradual coupling cap (0.1uF)? Just curious.
Did you reduce the size of the Fast/Gradual coupling cap (0.1uF)? Just curious.
Re: Komet 60 type build
I built as per the plans with a couple of subs for close value in the power supply are alone. I am planning on biasing V1 with diodes and bypassing the plate resistors on V1 with 500pf's in an attempt to quieten down the first stage a bit and cut down on some percieved oscillations. It has a bit of high frequency bite at mid to high volumes which iI can hear surprisingly as I am dead around 15k on up.
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Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump
Re: Komet 60 type build
Thanks Mark, this is very helpful.M Fowler wrote:Here is my voltage chart.
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Re: Komet 60 type build
Nice build
Thinkin about building one of these.I have suitable Iron but the PT doesn't have A 5volt tap.
Any thoughts on using a power resistor to emulate the voltage drop of the gz34?
I'm assuminhg the komet would have a bit more headroom than an express?
What new production el34's should I get? I am not familiar with new tubes.
I have a pretty good stash of old tubes mostly american.No el34's
Thinkin about building one of these.I have suitable Iron but the PT doesn't have A 5volt tap.
Any thoughts on using a power resistor to emulate the voltage drop of the gz34?
I'm assuminhg the komet would have a bit more headroom than an express?
What new production el34's should I get? I am not familiar with new tubes.
I have a pretty good stash of old tubes mostly american.No el34's
Re: Komet 60 type build
I would then just build the K50 which is SS rectified and uses 4k8 OT the PT is the same as the K60/Asteroid.
Slight difference in the schematic
Slight difference in the schematic