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Small single-ended amp, tube lineup is 6AT6 > 6AU6 > 6AQ5

Thought I'd put it here to see if there is any interest

One of the more annoying/ exasperating things I've noticed of late is local artists making videos that are just them playing their track on some sort of boom box and "filming" their "music video" on their phone.
Like, I admire the guerilla tactics, but

Wiring up a series/ parallel arrangement with a couple more speakers would protect an amp from both failure modes, at least to an extent.

I've known the joy of a perfectly blown speaker, they can deliver some great tones.

Is there a Fastenal location near you? The one in my area has helped me a few times with this sort of thing as they have the gauges, calipers etc necessary to determine what size it is.

As counterpoint, Scodiddly's simplified JFP has Scott Hampton's article fresh in my mind. In it he advocates for placing the pad after the preamp input transformer, "b/c transformer saturation can be cool and most mics are unlikely to cause huge amounts of saturation," or words to that effect. Whic...

As counterpoint, Scodiddly's simplified JFP has Scott Hampton's article fresh in my mind. In it he advocates for placing the pad after the preamp input transformer, "b/c transformer saturation can be cool and most mics are unlikely to cause huge amounts of saturation," or words to that effect. Which...

Theo_Karon wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 30, 2022 2:40 pm

They are also extremely handy to have around if you or the band run out of snacks

Good guys keep 10-12 in every guitar case for just such cases

I've got one of the little Soundcrafts that's a size up from what you're describing, and it's fine. Nothing amazing, just very useful for what it is.

I did get rid of that hot resistor, it was there in case the output was needed as an arc welder power supply. Massive overkill. Without it, the total power consumption of my 4-channel version is 1.5 watts. R5 is 1M for a DI input - for an input transformer it'll be somewhere in the 10k's of resista...

I believe it's from driving with the window down for soooo many years. That thought has occurred to me. +100 i see the audiologist every 2 years, hearing is my life, my passion, and my part time job, i don't mess around when it comes to my ears. i also use in ear monitors for live gigs that are noi...

Great looking builds. Did you stick to the original schematic? I ask because at one point the folks at groupDiy were talking about one of the transistors getting overly hot, i think maybe the ztx653, and also about either individually biasing each fet or sorting them so that uniform values could be ...

I've had a hearing imbalance for years. My left ear has less highs, and seems more compressed, if that makes sense. Oddly, I find that in most non-critical listening environments, it's actually the ear I favor when I'm really trying to pay attention. Anyway, like I said, this has been something I wa...

I hope nobody is expecting these to be reasonably priced. :shock: My guess is $6 per. From what I heard, at one point Tascam was listing the expected price at something like $40/per, but then quickly walked that back claiming "a glitch in the system, correct price to follow shortly." I don't know t...

By the mid aughts sources for cassette local to me had dried up to virtually nothing. The local cd store had the grey Maxell XLII shedshrine mentioned, only available in 90 min. Since it was the only option, I used quite a bit of it in my mt8x, 238, and 246. Never had any problems. I recently got my...