Recent content by rustman

All right! The reverb is ready and works fine. No hassle, reliable shopping. I bought the medium long decay tank. At the moment I have a feeling it's long enough. I really should have got proper spring tube reverb years ago. I have rack and pedal reverbs and vst's but this is truly far superior...

I'm planning to build a Tube-Town kit. They are easily available in Europe with a stock 220V transformer.

I'm planning to build a tube spring reverb unit. What is your opinion about the spring tank decay lengths? Original Fender style has long decay, but the manufacturer has two choices; medium and long decay. Both tanks have three springs (8AB2A1B or 8AB3C1B). The cabinet has room for one tank. My...

I have tried it the way Chipster described. I read it might help if the singer has tuning problems. It works fine, but I prefer headphones.

Thanks! I'll show this to my friend. Matti

Hi guys! Looks like you know your stuff. If you can find a way to do this I have couple of friends who are interested. I have five tube radios and the one I've been working on lately is Grundig 3055 3D Klang. I don't have a schematic for it, but I know a guy who restores tube radios as a hobby...

Brilliant, nice, thanks! Matti

Hello ecc83! Thanks for your reply. I have used old tube radios as guitar and harp amps for almost forty years just plugging into the banana gram sockets. These radios are generally not grounded, but I read from somewhere that there are two kinds of tube radios. The older ones you wouldn't want...

I'd like to use my beautiful old tube radio with my iphone, cd-player etc. There are gramophone connections behind the radio for simple banana jack mono connectors (mono). Any idea what do I need to do to get my source connected in mono? Do I need to worry about impedances or such? Do I need a...

I highly recommend ukuleles to everyone. My favourite is a tenor uke. Make shure you don't buy a toy, but a decent one. Good strings make a HUGE difference! I even got a luthier make me solid maple neck, alder body threetone sunburst soprano for electric guitar strings. With volume up it's a...

Original Pignose, Dynacord Twen II (17W, old copy of some Fender amp).

A good compressor and a Boss Slow Gear pedal. With SG you can imitate volume pedal easily. Those are nowadays hard to find, but I think there are build instructions at the General Guitar Gadget's website.

Hello! I found one schematic on the Jensen site. The transformer seemed to be on the expensive side. Ready made cord extension transformers cost around 30$ but this transformer alone seemed to cost over 100$. I may have mistaken, though. I already have couple of hi z harp mics, but one has to...

I'd like to build low xlr to hi guitar plug impedance transformer. I need it in order to use SM57 or such with my guitar amp. I know there are several good products in the shops, but not where I live and I like building stuff myself. Those available are not expensive and I bet it is not...

The thickness and material of the pick really does a lot for the sound. Different plastics and even metal and stone give lots of variations on the sound.