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Thanks! The treble loss might be an issue - the Keeley Compressor keeps the high frequencies almost intact (but then again, I've never played the BYOC Classic Compressor, so quite possibly it loses...

Northern Exposure, The Thick of It, Yes Minister, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Beavis and Butt-Head, Lano and Woodley, Monty Python, 3rd Rock from the Sun

Some others I can't...

I think I'll buy one of those kits, looks VERY promising. Have you had a chance to build one yet? I'm hoping it can hold it's own against the Keeley Compressor, any thoughts on that?

I wasn't insulted at all, it's just that the thread seemed to go on a "flannel" tangent a tad more than it seemed relevant to the discussion, that's all. No harm done.

I see. Excuse my part in the misunderstanding then.

Well, the definition for Godwin's law at the link I posted did use the word "humorous", so a certain level of self-irony was involved, but you don't like grunge so probably not your cup of tea...

Well, Kurt Vonnegut had this to say:

"I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts....

Pearl Jam's music is actually full of solos. The SRV/Hendrix influenced Mike McCready takes care of that quite generously. Look up a live version of "Black" or "Even Flow" for minutes of extended...

I'm sorry to have to be the one who enforces Godwin's law in this thread, but hating something that you only have a superficial idea about is what made concentration camps possible.

The flannel is, I believe, the fault of the business part of the music industry. If you watch the "Hype!" documentary, the people actually playing the music in Seattle were at best amused with the...

I don't know, maybe I did. With no input and the amp turned all the way up on the Champ clone, there's a very small amount of hiss. That's exactly what I hear out of my Peavey Classic 30 with no...

Thanks!

Thanks! It looks even better in real life :D but there was not enough light and the flash kept going off. I actually took a bunch of pictures but that turned out to be the best of them, hehe.
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It works! It sounds good "out of the box" :), but it's getting better fast - the filter caps are probably settling in, maybe some undecided carbon comp resistors still figuring out what value they...

Another noteworthy piece of information I've come across is that Victoria and the Weber 5F1 kit use a 25uF capacitor in parallel with the 1K5 resistor coming from pin 3 of the 12AX7.

Here's the...

Oh I'm sorry, I thought the link to the article had already been posted somewhere in this thread. Here it is:

http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/carbon_comp/carboncomp.htm


Yep, that's the...

Once again, a quick and very clear answer! If you're ever in Romania, let me know because I owe you some glasses of your favourite beverage :beer:

I'm sorry for my novice questions, I'm learning...

I've decided to stick to carbon comp resistors just because Victoria uses them and I love the way the 518 sounds. They're probably overkill to use all over the place, but it makes my life simpler,...

Another thing, the TAD schematic specifies voltage at various points in the circuit, measured with DVM read to ground. At one point it even goes up to 390V. Now, if I do that measurement I will do my...

Looks like that would have been my fate as well, had I decided not to email TAD and be too smart for my own good about it. They've answered my email, and apparently the pictures on their website have...

Yes, the secondary wires are green and black. I've mentioned them in my previous post (wired: green to speaker jack tip, black to ground), but I've obviously got a lot more to learn (about tube amp...

And now they got me a bit confused again. In this picture:

http://www.tubeampdoctor.com/images/KIT/5F1/AmpKit5F1Champ23.jpg

The blue wire coming from the output transformer connects to the...

OK, I did get that - I just thought that by "decoupling resistor" you meant the second green resistor from their picture. BTW, my kit came with one green resistor (the 5W one connected in parallel...

Of course, AC isn't polarized, and it's the input transformer :thwap. Now I can apply for a special bus pass.

Twisted and connected. Thanks!

I've started wiring the input transformer to the rectifier tube. Here's a TAD picture of the rectifier tube wiring:

http://www.tubeampdoctor.com/images/KIT/5F1/AmpKit5F1Champ18.jpg

What I'm not...