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It's just lovely. If I had the dough, I'd ask for one of those at 100 watts with a vox trem. SWOON.

That O-50 is hot shit

A while ago I made a few full crazy size Italian fuzzes like so, and got a couple hints to make a few more that were more pedalboard friendly.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2024 10:33 am

Enter the *regular* Italia. Hybrid silicon/germanium fuzz using a 2N2369 and Russian МП38А combo, biased appropriately. Lower gain, thick, & chewy. I've got a few of these so if there's any interest hit me up.

Balls BF-2R! AB165 Bassman-based circuit with added reverb and bias wiggle tremolo. The back end is two ECL84 tubes, cathode-biased for ~2 watts. Gorgeous looking and sounding Jupiter 8SC 8" speaker. 17" x 13.5" x 7.75". Intended to be a house amp that sounds like bigger push-pull amp.









And by request, two footswiches in different orientation to fit pedalboards.

Look at you go!

That amp rules

What's the tone like on an 8" speaker? More compact I imagine?

Wow, that is beautiful.

Small detail but I love the stacked style footswitch

losthighway wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:37 pm What's the tone like on an 8" speaker? More compact I imagine?

Depends what you're doing. An 8" speaker with a mic right in front of it can still sound huge. Plenty of Champs show up on records.

In a room, they sometimes can sound small and tight. Depends a lot on cabinet and baffle size though.