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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 the same ammount of highs, and I don't own the Keeley anymore, so possibly I'm remembering it to...

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 recall... :)

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 communication-style-wise :). :beer:

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. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are...

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 soloing.

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 flannel thing. Those who wore it, wore it simply because it was cold, and it was extremely cheap...

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 input on the clean channel turned up about halfway - and there are no carbon composition resistors in...

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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. Future plans for the amp include changing the red pilot light with a blue one, and add that bypass cap...

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 want to be, and definitely the speaker getting more and more in a vibrating mood. Thanks for all...

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 Weber 5F1 layout: http://taweber.powweb.com/store/5f1_layout.jpg And a short film from Victoria...