Recent content by HamishR

I'm much the same. The Rat sounds very vanilla to me. I love adding a bass pot - that really helped. But still it's not the most engaging, complex sound IMO. I probably play the wrong kinda music for it. I have built some for friends with original round metal case LM308s and they love 'em but...

That's a LOT of corrosion!! Bloody hell - do you live in the ocean? FWIW Elderly Instruments used (maybe still do?) to sell a lot of Bigsby stuff including all sorts of parts. I would suggest getting some new parts.

A few years back Small Bear had a heap of NOS Fairchild J201s for under $1 a pop (Can't remember how much exactly but it must have been low for me to buy them) and I bought a couple of hundred. They have sat there for those years until Chuck's wisdom taught me how to use them. Since then I have...

I would still recommend splitting V1 cathodes. You won't get a true Marshall lead sound with the 320µF cathode cap and 820R cathode resistor. And if you go with the .1µF PI caps try a .0022µF cap for the first Lead Channel coupling cap. You can also experiment with the size of various coupling...

That's an interesting one - haven't seen that before. It's kind of a JTM45 with a SS rectifier.

My first thought was that it looks more like plumbing than electronics. And that's a good thing! (As long as it doesn't starting leaking like plumbing can. )

I really like the range of colours in a such a simple looking wipe. Where do you live that it's so hot right now? Obviously northern Hemisphere! It's pleasantly frigid where I am right now. I took a walk today in the rain (I love walking in the rain). It was a slow, short walk and the temp was...

Before the second world war Hitler decided to have two art exhibitions. One for the kind of art he thought was superior - the stuff that was heroic, looked like stuff you would see in real life but better, like social realism. The other exhibition was for deviant art, held in a run-down...

Ist das gerade der Fall? Ich habe mein ganzes Deutsch von Derrick gelernt. "Der Mann ist tot!" "Nein! Das ist nicht möglich."

That all makes sense! And all the silver mica caps I have are 500V. I rarely use them them in pedals because they're kinda big.

Oh I know "'39". My bro was a big fan A Day At The Races and A Night At The Opera. It's funny - I do love treble booster sounds but when BM layers all the harmonies it often reminds me of that pedal steel slide sound at the beginning of the Loony Tunes fanfare!

I'm curious, and I promise I'm not being snarky or anything, but I notice you often use just a dab of solder for joints. For example where the ground wire meets the IN jack lug. I was taught to "fill the hole" with solder so that the wire had nowhere to go. Apart from a probably vastly lower...

Ever since I found the "Snap to..." thing DIYLC has been a lot more fun to use. What I like about Brian May: He has totally developed his own instantly recognisable sound in more ways than one. I admire that more than I admire Queen. I admire players who work on there sound, note choice, etc...

Degenerate I may be (Excuse the pun) but I like my wires to line up! I like BM's playing well enough, and I quite the sound. It's just in a different realm from what I usually like, and what I usually like can be quite degenerate.

That's a bit forward isn't it?