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Dmoney

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #30 on: February 25, 2012, 10:37:16 PM »
That looks amazing.  8) Its so neat and tidy. I wouldn't have a clue how to make an amp. Does it sound nice?


Now that I've bolted it into the shell properly and the foil screen on the bottom has shielded out some hum, it sounds pretty good. super loud. its tight and pretty compressed. The depth control is kind of subtle but it works and its not overpowering. One 'gain' control actually cuts bass from early in the preamp and that has an effect on how the gain feels and on how tight the amp sounds. I haven't had it cranked way up yet, but I'm looking forward to.

I want to get stuck into reducing noise in it, whatever way I can. got some better pots coming. I also would really like to find some shielded cable with a more robust core. that seems tricky.

I'll try and do a basic clip very soon.

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #31 on: February 28, 2012, 08:50:06 PM »
Lovely neat wiring job there chap. I'm keen to hear a clip :)

Mind sharing where you got the turrets and board from (and what kind of board you used)? I've wanted to do a build on custom turret boards but I've always fallen back on the Maplin premade ones.  :lol:

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #32 on: February 28, 2012, 09:12:47 PM »
Beautiful work.

I showed it to one of my clients (guitarist and amateur amp builder) and he also said to tell you that its beautiful work.

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #33 on: February 28, 2012, 09:26:58 PM »
Lovely neat wiring job there chap. I'm keen to hear a clip :)

Mind sharing where you got the turrets and board from (and what kind of board you used)? I've wanted to do a build on custom turret boards but I've always fallen back on the Maplin premade ones.  :lol:

The Board is 3mm thick FR4 and from tubetown.de. Turrets and the resistors are from there also. The capacitors are from elsewhere. Multiple sources. RS Components, Mouser, Tubetown, Farnell. 

The layout is based on something I got from an acquaintance but I reworked it for my own purposes and changed some values.

Beautiful work.

I showed it to one of my clients (guitarist and amateur amp builder) and he also said to tell you that its beautiful work.

Tell him thank you very much! I have some changes to come. A friend who runs a little studio down here has offered to let me go round and record some clips. At some point soon I'll make some kind of cruddy video as a poor demonstration.

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #34 on: February 29, 2012, 12:10:25 AM »
It looks very neat. Real customshop-ish.
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Mules, VHII, Crawler, MM's, IT's, BG50's.

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #35 on: February 29, 2012, 03:41:23 PM »
The Board is 3mm thick FR4 and from tubetown.de. Turrets and the resistors are from there also.

Thanks, I'll check that out. I've got a project amp in mind as well.  :D

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #36 on: February 29, 2012, 04:00:38 PM »
Are you into metal or something?
i would love to hear some Death metal riffs Q: P
Or at least heavy thrash metal riffs

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #37 on: March 27, 2012, 12:57:35 AM »
Here is a link to a clip of the amp

http://soundcloud.com/user8302510

I also attached a pic of the recording setup.I did this JUST before I had to go to work. Other than what is in the pic (I used those settings on the amp too) the SM58 goes into a cheap A/D converter. iUSB? To my macbook where the clip was recorded dry in garageband.

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Re: My little project is almost finished.
« Reply #38 on: April 20, 2012, 08:43:22 PM »
Nice one. I mentioned to Tony that I've got an AOR on the way and he said you were doing this  8)