Some new shit. Pitch shift-y vibrato (https://flic.kr/p/2nfbZzF):

My local shop and vendor, Main Drag Music, is celebrating their 25th anniversary today with an open house and swap meet kinda deal. I'm manning a table as a builder just to chat about my shit and also selling a couple of one-offs from the past that I have kicking around. While I was at it I whipped up a quick driver with some on-hand items. A muff that's not a muff....low gain "Russian" style setup with softer clipping and a treble roll-off instead of the scooped BMP stack.






Also here's a pic of me getting luxurious on the floor of the pub with my dog

Is the dog Solid state or valves? How much?

Hot Rod Deluxe magic trick:






Near-complete gut job, kept the existing iron and chassis. Replaced the circuit with a more traditional BF style preamp, with a proper master volume and cathode biased 6L6 output stage. Like the big brother to the BF-15s that I've made before. Fantastic clean tones that compress beautifully as you drive it hard.

You're like the Kevin Costner of TubeWorld

Is the standby switch an overrated design feature? I keep noticing cool amps that skip it.

losthighway wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 1:38 pm Is the standby switch an overrated design feature? I keep noticing cool amps that skip it.

It's just not necessary, it's extra wires, switches etc.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 1:51 pm

losthighway wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 1:38 pm Is the standby switch an overrated design feature? I keep noticing cool amps that skip it.

It's just not necessary, it's extra wires, switches etc.

Agree. I put them on some stuff, depending on the specific design, but they're never necessary.

JFC. Literally first half-page of results googling this standby thing and ALL the experts and mfgs have something to say on the subject....and none of the articles are fully consistent with each other.

Garth wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 2:55 pm JFC. Literally first half-page of results googling this standby thing and ALL the experts and mfgs have something to say on the subject....and none of the articles are fully consistent with each other.

correct. A much younger me found myself asking the same question - so I started playing one of my amps never using the standby, and nothing bad ever happened, and my tubes lasted a lot time - so I concluded that the position of "it does nothing to save your tubes/amp" accurate. Not scientific, but there you go.