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N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« on: November 05, 2012, 10:35:56 PM »
Now done. Details here: http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/ampage.html

Martin has done a cracking job of the cab. Blonde and Oxblood won in the end. I decided to go with a separate head and cab to isolate it. Cab will happen later.



« Last Edit: November 05, 2012, 11:11:24 PM by juansolo »
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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2012, 10:47:11 PM »
That looks fantastic! Are you happy with the end result or is there any tweaking to be done? Very impressive looking amp in any case.  8)

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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2012, 11:15:40 PM »
Chuffed with it. The only tweaking done was a little re-biasing to run 6L6s. Not going to do anything else.

I was umming and ahhing about dropping a reverb in there (a pedal based one) but in the end, it's easier just to plug a pedal in (in this it'd require an additional PSU adding to run it). If I was making one from scratch I'd probably drop one in anyhow as the one we use does a spookily good impression of a spring.
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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 12:25:34 AM »
Looks lovely mate! What a tidy looking head! Great colour combo too. Congrats!

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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2012, 11:50:43 AM »
nice, saw the pics Martin posted in FB
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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2012, 11:53:53 AM »
Very nice! In the words of the TOWIE crew, I am Well Jel.
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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2012, 01:20:28 PM »
It looks gorgeous. Now we just need some sound clips  :D
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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2012, 03:06:32 PM »
Hope it sounds as good as it looks!

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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2012, 03:29:52 PM »
Chuffed with it. The only tweaking done was a little re-biasing to run 6L6s. Not going to do anything else.

I was umming and ahhing about dropping a reverb in there (a pedal based one) but in the end, it's easier just to plug a pedal in (in this it'd require an additional PSU adding to run it). If I was making one from scratch I'd probably drop one in anyhow as the one we use does a spookily good impression of a spring.

Do you use the Belton brick?

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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2012, 04:27:52 PM »
New much smaller brick yes. It's a very simple circuit which is based on the recommended schematics from Belton/Accutronics. Single knob. Does what it should simply and well.

Got one left for sale. Martin snagged the other.
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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2012, 05:04:11 PM »
Looks great John.  Long spring reverb or short (or both)?
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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2012, 05:51:54 PM »
He got the other single short one (we made two of them).
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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2012, 06:17:24 PM »
very nice indeed :)

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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2012, 07:07:59 PM »
New much smaller brick yes. It's a very simple circuit which is based on the recommended schematics from Belton/Accutronics. Single knob. Does what it should simply and well.

Got one left for sale. Martin snagged the other.

I've not seen the smaller bricks, where did you get yours from?

I bought one of the larger bricks, but haven't got around to using it yet.

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Re: N(DIY)AD. It's done.
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2012, 07:12:49 PM »
I had a pedal with the older brick that developed a very strange (intermittent) sample-and-repeat problem that would only be fixed by killing the power to it, but I thought it sounded pretty good-- have been wanting to build a pedal with the new one.

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