Komet 60 type build

[M Fowler]

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

[Colossal]

Passfan,

Did you reduce the size of the Fast/Gradual coupling cap (0.1uF)? Just curious.

[passfan]

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.

[dbeeman]

Here is my voltage chart.

Thanks Mark, this is very helpful.

[cbass]

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

[M Fowler]

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