basically we've got some seriously thick 'n' chewey chunk on vol II and a bright spiky attack on vol I. the crunch on vol I is probably immense, but the amp is simply too loud at the mo for me to crank the bright channel and be happy afterwards. vol II breaks up pretty quick and would make that "knackered dude" from the gearwire Tiny Terror video jizz his pantalons.
what remains:
- ordered a gold-screened plexi-size marshall logo out of boredom, but it's not guaranteed to go on... still deciding.
putting ohm selector right-side up (no comment for now
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need some sort of cheap attenuator... am currently in the posession of a marshall powerbrake schematic, but it's got some pricey parts. i've only opened this thing up into heavy gain territory once and it was almost too loud to hear.
also, the metroamp dude's guide is a little bit crap. he obviously knows his stuff, but he forgot to mention certain things and gave incorrect instructions at a couple of key stages (just slips of the tongue, really... "pin 3" instead of "pin 5," naming the wrong value component, just showing a picture of something without explaining it, etc... i can definately say that if you don't already more-or-less know the plexi circuit or can figure out an amp just by looking at it, you'd have a REAL hard time with one of his kits. my dad was a life-saver, he's been building radios since he was 14 and has an electronics degree, but i'm no expert by any means.
so anyway, 1959SLP circuit (1967 marshall super lead). we toyed with both a 100k resistor in the negative feedback stage (like on my superbass) and a 47k, which is what we ended up using. the marshall re-issue of this amp is 3 times as expensive as what we ended up sinking into this project, and i doubt it could possibly sound or look any better, plus we had loads of fun every time we worked on it, so i'm pretty psyched about it. CUSTOM BUILT MARSHALL, A LA THE ICEMAN!!
starting the heater wiring (the red and black braid at the back, soldered to all the tube sockets along the way, what a bitch!)
when i started the board
the next day while i was at a doc's appointment my dad got the lone capacitor we were missing and we bombed through the rest of the board when i got home. this is when we started to get antsy to HEAR it.
i can't believe the "orange drop" was a "leftover"
NUMBER 5 IS ALIVE!!!! NEED INPUT!
"What do you mean upside-dow---OH BOLLOCKS."
The Super Pat? "1959slp clone?" Laney-Raper? they all sound so clinical.
