vigilante398
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Now that I have my own section I'M GOING TO POST EVERY SINGLE IDEA I HAVE HERE. I have a dedicated section on Talkbass where I can show off things like finished products, but people there don't enjoy geeking out about PCB designs like we do here.
So this is a bit of a misnomer, as it's not actually an emulator, it is a full power amp with a dummy load on the output and a tap to bring down the level so I can feed it into more stuff. A year or so ago someone asked if I could do something like the SWR Interstellar Overdrive, which is a hybrid preamp going into an EL84 push-pull output section but with a dummy load and both line level and D.I. outputs so you get an "emulated" full amplifier at line level.
I wanted to do the same type thing but smaller, so I'm using a 12AU7 self-split output section like the AX84 Firefly and throwing a dummy load on there. It saves space, saves power, saves money, and saves heat over using a traditional power tube. It's not super small as it still needs an output transformer, but the output transformer for a 1/2W amplifier is much smaller than it would be for a 15W or higher, so I should be able to fit it in a 1590X. The end goal is to go tube preamp -> tube power amp -> tube driven IR loader for the most ridiculous all-in-one box anyone could ever ask for. Anyway, just ordered this one, so it will be a couple weeks out, but I'm excited.
So this is a bit of a misnomer, as it's not actually an emulator, it is a full power amp with a dummy load on the output and a tap to bring down the level so I can feed it into more stuff. A year or so ago someone asked if I could do something like the SWR Interstellar Overdrive, which is a hybrid preamp going into an EL84 push-pull output section but with a dummy load and both line level and D.I. outputs so you get an "emulated" full amplifier at line level.
I wanted to do the same type thing but smaller, so I'm using a 12AU7 self-split output section like the AX84 Firefly and throwing a dummy load on there. It saves space, saves power, saves money, and saves heat over using a traditional power tube. It's not super small as it still needs an output transformer, but the output transformer for a 1/2W amplifier is much smaller than it would be for a 15W or higher, so I should be able to fit it in a 1590X. The end goal is to go tube preamp -> tube power amp -> tube driven IR loader for the most ridiculous all-in-one box anyone could ever ask for. Anyway, just ordered this one, so it will be a couple weeks out, but I'm excited.