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Hey guys, my name's Nathan. I just registered here to show you my new amp I just built.

A picture's worth 1000 words


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Hey, I've even got a video for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4C_RwbeHtU

What can you tell us about your cool design?

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Stephen
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Cool stuff Nathan,
Are all those transistor's driver's for the relays?

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I used your sIII boost layout. Pretty similar with a few mods. Subbed some components for values I had, like all the 500k resistors are 470k, etc...

I moved the turret board, impedance selector and output transformer to fit everything in.

The relays, transistors and LEDs draw about 250mA worst case scenario (the board has 4 static states depending on the footswitch selection) so I used the torroidal transformer to power the accessories without straining the amps power transformer.

The TMB volume pot is a push pull for the sIII boost switch. The gain pot will be a diode clipper maybe, haven't installed the diodes.

The expander is kind of like the one on a Traynor YBA-1 but a bit simpler, currently it doesn't have a very strong effect, I think it might need another cap.

Yes the footswitch controls the drivers. The drivers control the LEDs and Relays. The signal path is all in the relays. I used a 100k resistor between the cascade like Stephen did in his build.

Resistors are metal film 1W or higher. No particular reason, I wanted to see what it would sound like with all new style components I guess.

There are 11 coax cables under the turret board . I actually don't have the specs on the cable, it just says made in Japan. I got it at Addison in Montreal, looks like 20AWG or 22AWG. I bought some at Active Surplus on Queen but then magically found this cable in my box of goodies when I actually set out to build this thing.

Looks awesome!!!


Please no....!!! Promise me you won't do that to your beautiful amp.

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Haha, why not!? It's a push pull so it'll be off normally.

God the suspense is killing me, my head cab is in the mail. Stephen sent me a photo of it, looks beautiful! Should be here tomorrow.

I'll have to hear it some time soon.

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Stephen
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Good lord that looks good!



Thanks Stephen.

Very cool design! Can't wait to hear clips

Looks good for sure. Not so sure about the 'Bluesbreakers' CD case tho!

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Stephen
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