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I would have to think that once you are free of orange fraudsters things might improve. To Australia Tayda is very inexpensive. AFAIK we...

I have better results with the JJ ECC803S than most new 12ax7s. I actually like the sound of JJ's regular small plate 12ax7 but they can...

I have built this on a Sheepylove PCB believing it to be a variation on a Bluesbreaker theme. It sure doesn't sound like one anymore...

Most of the pedals I build are in 1590Bs with top jacks. I use Lumbergs for IN, OUT, and DC.

The only JJs I've ever had problems with are recent GZ34s, I'm sad to say! I must have bought from a bad batch because I've had 2-3 go...

I love some NOS preamp tubes. But I never got into NOS power tubes because I could never afford them, and the risk involved buying...

It might make it easier to read if you reduce the length of the diode in DIYLC. You can make the diode length shorter so it shows the band.

Could it be a Lovepedal Kalamazoo with LED clippers?

Sure - couldn't hurt. FWIW I have built a few of these and never bother with those clipping diodes for the reasons you mention.

I finished the build the day it showed up in the mail. It's always exciting to build one of @vigilante398 's tube projects. And they...

I used parts from Valvestorm, Mercury Magnetics, Tubesandmore.com, etc, based on freely available schematics and layouts online. The...

I was buying tubes for an amp I was building a few years ago and saw the blurb that JJ KT77s were a suitable replacement for EL34s, so I...

Yeah the amp is dead clean - to get it to break up is louder than my neighbours would like! But all is solved now that the swchematic...

FWIW the transistors in the original were 2N5088 for Q1 and 2N5172 for Q2 & 3.

So clean! I like the colour and I particularly admire the simplicity of the graphics. Minimal, modern, sophisticated. Way back when...