Paleo-Electronics

Since I am failing to complete numerous tasks at once, I thought I would describe their status

Amp Computer

The problem here was banana cables.   At some point, the ‘Asshole Audiophile’ community got a hold of banana connections and now it’s damn near impossible to get banana cables at a reasonable rate.   I wanted to use banana cables instead of say, posts and alligator clips.    These guys :  Circuit Specialists solved that for me.   I paid a buck and a quarter per 20″ cable.  Woot!  Back on that soon, but the first two parts are in fab now!    I haven’t decided on the mounting system yet, Cheap boxes or panel/rackmount.   Tough call actually.

Real McTube III

This got some love yesterday.   The power circuit is done but not boxed yet.   I am going to box it separately from the foot pedal part because hey, it’s 140/12 power supply and it’s not like I’m gonna take it on the road.   I wired up the heater stuff, LED and footswitch yesterday and may take a crack at the signal today.   More on that heater circuit later, but these are the first two amp computer style components.

Real McTube Calculations

This is gonna take a while, I did the numbers and they worked out, but now I can’t find the book I used and describing this stuff is really painful.   I’m back into the Rider book but that is the most annoyingly pedagogical book I have ever read.   I’d love to find a good clean book on tubes, with our without the math but it must have full data sheet reading info

SongBird

I’ve started buying parts and will rip the old stuff out of the chassis soon.   There may be some original Gibson Transformers on EBay soon.  Maybe I will recreate the Crestline in the amp computer style.  Maybe the 102C84 will get up there.  That would be ridiculously hard to find anywhere else.