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Ah yes, good to see you're over the worst

Ah I see.

That's very light for mahogany.

Impressive. In a way it's a shame to have covered up mahogany, but the maple looks great. I take it the body is flat rather than gently curved?

A big lump of mahogany can't have been cheap? Is it preferred for guitars, or just something you had laying around?

Nightmare Steve. Glad you got away okay Steve.

to JCLPCB. And others like PCBWay. It has to be very simple point-to-point now for me to bother, it's easy enough, and satisfying, to draft a PCB. And so cheap.

I'm interested in your veneering technique when you get to that bit. I haven't done any yet but must try sometime.

It's slightly concerning Steve I must say, I use them in the GM70 amp

No they're good points. I was thinking earlier how different the amps are - whilst they're both SETs they're quite different really. I don't remember the bass being compromised switching to the 45s, but I was using class D with the GM70s too as I'd found the passive crossover robbed life and detail....

But today if I wanted better bass I would follow Simon. There is no longer any point to building a valve bass amp. Last century the place my head was. Valves could do no wrong. But my single amps do kick out enough bass for my requirements. Quad 57’s are wide band enough for me and el34’s at 6 watt...

NOS Mullards for £14 has its attractions. Be interested what you think of them Paul.

Paul Barker wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:03 pm

simon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:38 pm Hmmm, I've lost my Sound Practices CD so don't have a copy of that 45 CCS circuit, well that's probably a good thing.

I lost mine, its greating.

It must be somewhere in my very many CDs, but goodness knows where

Greg wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:54 pm Simon, just sent the build instructions and diagrams by email to you.

Thanks Greg

And Phil, thanks too. You can stand down

Out of interest does anyone have a copy of the WAD ECL82 amp circuit? Nothing's turned up from a web search.

Right. I've been round in my usual circles of indecision with this. I spent quite a lot of time working out physical arrangements in AutoCAD as it's tricky squeezing so many chokes in to a compact space. Then I worried about proximity of all the iron and wondered if I really need to breadboard it. T...

A question for Nick. IIRC you mentioned when I popped round that you use ceramic caps to ground the input phonos - I used film as that's what I had to hand - are ceramics a better choice for this application? Does it make any difference?