Greetings to you all, amp enthusiasts!
I'm a french canadian hailing from Val-d'Or, Quebec, Canada. As if it wasn't north enough, I also spend all of the year working in Nunavut, quite close to the polar circle.
By no mean ain't I a professionnal when it comes to electronics, I'm a mining technician by trade, basically my job is to survey the underground gold mine I work at, draw actual and future excavation using AutoCAD. I'm also a guitarist in a Doom/Stoner Metal project, though we don't have recorded anything so far. I've discovered a passion towards amplifier building and modifying tube amplifiers, basically when I've acquired my first kit (a Weber 8CM100), I couldn't tell a resistor from a capacitor... its been a long road to say the least
The path to understanding how an amplifier works is still being undergoing, took me two years to hear my guitar through my 8CM100 and since then, I've been searching and building more and more project. I've acquired a '73 Traynor Bassmaster that was dead on arrival and partly achieved into bringing it back to life (still have some issues with it, might post a thread at some point to inquire some help). I did however achieved to bring to life my bandmate's Weber Halle (Dumble Overdrive Special clone), built a Weber 6M45P for another friend and finally got myself one of Bruce Egnater's Boutikit 50w. In between every project, my 8CM100 grew to become my Franken-amp, undergoing multiple modifications and rewiring to end up where it is as of today, a two channels 4 gains stager. I like to think that it sounds good as it is but improvement is always possible.
Anyway, here's the most recent picture of it aswell as a picture of my Boutikit. Thanks to this website, I have been able to implement a channel switcher in my Weber amplifier during my last time off (I work a 14/14 schedule). I'll post more about it in another thread, but I really want to give credits to Doug for sharing his channel switcher (although due to shipping cost, I've acquired the parts on a Canadian website).
I think I've talked enough, I tend to go on and on when it comes to speaking about my projects, so feel free to ask any questions that you might have.
Cheers!
Topic: Greetings from northern Canada (Read 4128 times)