lbethune wrote:
The bands I play with live are quite loud in rehearsals so I've been afraid that 6V6s ODS wouldn't be loud enough. (Sigh!)
Hi Larry, congrats on the new amp, I saw a pic of it, sure looks great, I would love to hear one of these little ODS beasts. Regarding the volume issue, I had pretty much the same issue, given that my main amp for the last 2 1/2 years has been a Trinity Tramp Head into a fairly large cab. I mean I have literally been using it for everything from very quiet to very loud. I started off by running a ton of clean boost into the front end and that got me by with fairly good results for some time, but I now have another piece of kit called an "Unleash" (It's made by "Badcat" - I hope that is not a swearword around here
), which I found lets me use my Tramp and any of my other amps literally anywhere. I don't know if you are familiar with it but the Unleash is basically a 100 Watt Class D re-amp device, I was at first concerned it might mess with the Tramp's tone (It's the reason I love the Tramp, the breakup and feel under the strings is so sweet) but no I can't tell at all, I can set the Tramp at it's sweet spot in Tweed/Clean mode, which is not really that loud at all, and it just makes it a S#$% load louder, like Fender Twin loud if the situation demands it (of course need to make sure the speaker can handle the watts, like a 150W Texas Heat). Another plus for me is it adds an effects loop to the Tramp so my Reverb pedal sounds WAY nicer than it did in front of a dirtied-up amp, and also a foot switchable/adjustable level boost.
Anyway just thought I'd throw that suggestion out there as something maybe worth investigating, as it's a tool that allows a working muso to use whichever of his favorite amps he desires anywhere, (eg, if you actually preferred the 6V6 tone with your ODS) from a big amp at it's sweet spot in a small bar, to a small amp at it's sweet spot on an outdoor festival stage, without fear of being under/over amp'd, ever and adds some nice extras like the loop and foot-switched levels to those amps that don't have those options.
With all that said I would love to build a Trinity Triwatt, my thinking is it would make a great pedal platform but our crazy exchange rates ($1AUD = US $0.80 cents) have killed that plan just for the moment.
Have fun with that new amp, and please keep us posted on the testing.