New Amp Soundclips

[DougH]

Added some soundclips to my new amp folder:

http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/v/DougH/TenWattWonder/

I'm going to add one more with my frankenstrat, later on.

All the clips are through an Emminence Red Fang 1x12.

[petemoore]

 
  Nice gallery you've got worked up there Doug !
  Soudclips are great, gotta love the little Big Sounding amps !
  Guitar rolloff seems to be workin' great !
  :To the tune of 'workin' on the railraod':
  I've been working on the amp all day.
  The lovely month of December hey !
  If I wasn't wiring guts, you know I would go nuts.
  Lovely month of December hey !
  Total clean-out and re-wire of RCA PT and chassis to 18w [lite or TMB?...still deciding.
 

[hellwood]

is the link down?

[km-r]

^ the gallery seems to be.

[MartyMart]

Sounding real nice Doug

[John Lyons]

Great sounding clips! I love that dry pentode growling sound. Pretty good range of sounds there.
Thanks for posting these.
How much of the sound would you say is from driving those small pentodes at the output vs the preamp?

John

[DougH]

Nice gallery you've got worked up there Doug !

Thanks Pete. I'm finally getting around to properly documenting some of the stuff I've done over the years. This seems like the place to do it.

How much of the sound would you say is from driving those small pentodes at the output vs the preamp?

Thanks John. Given that the preamp is a single EF86, I doubt there's much, if any, distortion coming from the preamp. It does drive the phase inverter, and then the output tubes pretty well though. The "raw" and "dark" clips are basically the fattest setting of the tone selector and 100% gain. The "dark" clip is with the cut control up at 3/4. I rarely turn up the cut control at all, I prefer the sound of it wide-open and as you can probably hear in the clip, it sounds somewhat congested with the highs rolled off. Actually, with humbuckers the thinnest tone selector setting (like in the "jangle" clip) sounds good with a lot more gain, more of a typical "rock&roll" sound. I'll have to do a clip of that too. The tone selector does a good job of illustrating the effect of coupling capacitance. It was fun doing the clips but I rarely use the 2 fatter tone settings with humbuckers. It gets *really* fat. Those settings are more apropos for single coils. (I s'pose a few more clips are in order.  ) I don't really use the cut control and rarely use the master volume. You could build a simplified version of this with the volume control and tone selector and it would be a nice amp. I may tweak with the tone selector a little to dial it in a little more for my guitars, but it's not bad as is.

I'm glad you guys liked the clips. Thanks for the comments.

[John Lyons]

Doug
Yes, the fat settings are pretty bloated on the lower notes. Although it sounds nice and fuzz face like on lead playing for that sluge/swampy blues type sound. The cut is nice to have just to knock off the "air" for something less rock oriented.
4 knobs is still pretty minimal.
How clean does it get while still putting out decent volume?

John

[DougH]

Yeah it's pretty "greasy" sounding on those fat settings.

At 25% it's pretty clean with humbuckers and has plenty of volume. You can push it higher- up to 50% or so with single coils for good cleans. I'll do some more clips (short ones) which demonstrate some of the other sounds.

Oh, and it's actually 3 knobs and a micro switch (the "tone selector").

[mnordbye]

Thanks for posting sound clips! Love sound clips.   

Sounds really nice, way better than the HiOctane from ax84 i built..

Magnus N

[DougH]

Thanks!

The Hi-Octane is really a completely different kind of deal than this amp. This is more of a vintage style amp where it really drives the PI and output tubes to get the distortion. In contrast, the Hi Octane is a high-gain preamp distorter. Both approaches are good and can be made to sound good. Remember that speaker choice will have a major effect on the tone of your amp. I like the sound of this amp with the alnico Red Fang much better than I did with the Celestion G12H30. In many ways, that speaker *completely* changed the sound of this amp.

[John Lyons]

Ok, so it does have some clean headroom, nice!

I'm starting to realize that the speaker is a major tone shaper as well. Makes sense, your listening to the speaker when it comes down to it. Everything has to come out of it, if it sounds "bad" then there isn't much hope.

John

[DougH]

I just added 3 more clips. Make sure you click "next page" for the Frankenstrat clip.

[DougH]

Forget the "next page" thing. I put all the clips in a new album.