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With the exchange rate where it is right now, 209 quid for a preamp that's not a toy is a screaming bargain.

And then it crosses my horizons that we lost Mr William Fries back on April 1. Family road trips will never be the same without C.W. McCall.

These things come in 3s, and we can take a break for a while, right?

The size and location of the port also make a difference. A big hole, dead center on the front head, lets the air rush right out, more like not having a front head. If the hole's big enough, about the only use of such a head is to retain the hoop & claws, to help prevent damage to the front bearing ...

...visualize...

If you squint at the NPN pair long enough, it looks like a differential gearbox.

Get 3 Ammeters and play with one of the Pass diff pairs (or try Spice...2 JFETs or BJTs and a few resistors are chump change, but 3 meters with decent mA tracking aren't). You'll build some intuition by watching them together as you change the input voltages.

I'd definitely be curious to see a schematic for a discrete opamp based on a couple JFETs. Here ya go: https://www.passdiy.com/projects/images/content/diyopamp7.png Or better yet, download the PDF and follow through as he iterates on the design: https://www.passdiy.com/download.php?download_file=/i...

This has sort of come full circle here. At the TapeOp conference in New Orleans, there was a DIY breakout session. Most of the group was new to DIY, and was led through the construction of one of these gain stages by Scott H himself. There were a bunch of little baggies of parts that were distribute...

I, too, have succumbed to the Behringer synth clone thing.

I stumbled across a used yellow TD-3-MO, so I have caught the fabled "Uli-fish."

(and, yes, make of that nickname what you will)

Well, you wouldn't want your podcast viewers to see the usual coathanger + old sock combo, would you?

Ssshhhh, dudes. Keep it down.

We'd never want Vlayman to hear us say "Bozak", would we?

So put the flats on the Gretsch? Seems like a potentially great combo.

Thank you, Zombie Thread, for reminding me that I've still got this gift card.

A pandemic happened in there, and kinda rearranged priorities. I just checked, and it's miraculously still worth the original value!

No $50 Small Stone, but there's a $50 Small Clone...

Tascam M-2600.

The Fluke 115 is a great meter, but its their entry-level, general purpose electronics meter, to compete with some of the other high-quality import meters we see these days (Wavetek, Extech, UniT, and so on). I've had one for about 10 years now. Goes everywhere I need a portable meter. But I'd say t...