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Offline Ledzepp007

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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #50 on: May 31, 2018, 10:19:58 am »
Any further comments on the most recent schematic and layout? I might start building

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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #51 on: July 26, 2018, 12:49:09 pm »
What's the status of this build? I'm very interested to see how it turns out using a 6v6 output section. I recently built just the BE channel in one of my amps and have been thinking of converting my 6v6 JCM800. Let us know!
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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #52 on: December 07, 2018, 10:37:00 am »
I’ll probably start building this over the next couple of weeks. Any other comments?

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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #53 on: December 07, 2018, 05:20:33 pm »
Go for it.  I'm eager to  see & hear how this comes out.  The BE50 demo on Premier Guitar.com by John Bohlinger sounds pretty bleepn' good.

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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #54 on: December 08, 2018, 12:53:42 am »
Any further comments on the most recent schematic and layout? I might start building

The first stage is still wrong. It should be 68k to ground in the attenuator, not 1M. First stage is supposed to be a mild boost.

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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #55 on: December 08, 2018, 04:09:11 pm »
The first stage is still wrong. It should be 68k to ground in the attenuator, not 1M. First stage is supposed to be a mild boost.

No, that's backwards.

The 1M is the grid return R, and goes to ground. The 68K is the grid stopper R.

He has only a single input jack, so his grid stopper R is 33K.

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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #56 on: December 09, 2018, 02:44:49 am »
The first stage is still wrong. It should be 68k to ground in the attenuator, not 1M. First stage is supposed to be a mild boost.

No, that's backwards.

The 1M is the grid return R, and goes to ground. The 68K is the grid stopper R.

He has only a single input jack, so his grid stopper R is 33K.

Check the Friedman schematic again. The first stage of the 4-stage ”hairy brown eye” Friedman channel has a 1M/68k attenuator before the next stage.

It’s fine to experiment with other values of course.

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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #57 on: December 09, 2018, 11:24:09 am »
Check the Friedman schematic again. The first stage of the 4-stage ”hairy brown eye” Friedman channel has a 1M/68k attenuator before the next stage.

You said 1st stage, so I thought you meant the input.

Anything after the plate coupling cap I would call 2nd/next stage. Tamato/tomato.   

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Re: Brown Eye-ish Amp in Princeton Reverb Chassis
« Reply #58 on: December 26, 2018, 10:22:58 am »
Any further comments on the most recent schematic and layout? I might start building

The first stage is still wrong. It should be 68k to ground in the attenuator, not 1M. First stage is supposed to be a mild boost.

Yes, you are correct. Should be 68k to ground.

 


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