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title revised.

and i just checked audacity's site, they do have it for linux. i'll try and get some sounds up this week and maybe a video at some point in my life.

That would be awesome. Nice one.

You must have that nice "A well done Job" afterglow feeling.

oh you have no idea. i was so certain it wouldn't work. not sure why, probably just murphy's law. i'm so glad i didn't have to go poking around a live amp trying to figure out where i went wrong.

Absolutely.

The "works-first-time" feeling is awesome.

Impressive stuff man! Looks fucking ace.

Congratulations on a great job, man. That amp's deeelicious.

I checked out the Weber website - it's looks really good to me and the prices also. I'd love to have a go at this kind of thing.

I guess it would be, like, prohibitively expensive to get a kit over to Dear Old Blighty what with shipping and import VAT etc?

Anyone tried it?

Does anyone in the UK flog amp kits like this? I googled and got some valve/speaker upgrade kit dealers and that was all.

Any help mucho appreciated

Torres are a US company that have UK distrubution. From memory the prices are a bit high though, and it might be cheaper to ship from some other company (this one, Ceriatone, etc.) or even Torres themselvesdirect from the US. I'll get a link now.

Torres UK
Torres US

Great Job Justin/Bubbles.

Need sond klips.

James, thanks for the links - your memory serves you well, Torres does come out pricey compared to Weber. I think I'll email Weber and get an idea of an all-in shipped-to-UK cost.

Nice build!
Another UK site:
http://www.astonelectronics.co.uk/ - 5 watt kit:

thanks guys. i'll try and get some sound clips up this weekend.

Bubbles, also check out the program Ardour for linux. It's good for doing raw multitracking and editing, then dump to a wav for post processing in Audacity.

Are you using Ubuntu?

And nice amp btw.

dude, very nice. great build. im sure that amp sounds lovely.

PenPen wrote:Bubbles, also check out the program Ardour for linux. It's good for doing raw multitracking and editing, then dump to a wav for post processing in Audacity.

Are you using Ubuntu?

And nice amp btw.

yeah, i'm using ubuntu. i'll check that out, thanks.

bubbles_horwitz wrote:

PenPen wrote:Bubbles, also check out the program Ardour for linux. It's good for doing raw multitracking and editing, then dump to a wav for post processing in Audacity.

Are you using Ubuntu?

And nice amp btw.

yeah, i'm using ubuntu. i'll check that out, thanks.

Awesome. Just use the "Add/Remove" app and search for those two apps, they both have packages ready. Single click install!

i already installed it using the package manager. i haven't had a chance to look at it yet, though.

got bored, so i decided to replace all the resistors and the non-electrolytic capacitors with nos ones from apex. god, i love that place. $5 got me all the components i needed. i also cleaned up the wiring a bunch and replaced the speaker with a weber fane copy. and i replaced all the sockets.
it sounds pretty good and is a lot louder with the new speaker. i've had the amp apart for the past few weeks so i can't really remember what it used to sound like. it seems to sound slightly mellower, but in a good way. smoother, perhaps.
here are some pictures:


i bought one of these desoldering pumps, as the braid wasn't cutting it. it really works well for this kind of stuff.

nos caps? wtf.

at THE SHOP, we do like a shit ton of cap jobs on all this old shit and replace with the orange drops. they seem to work well.

these were way cheaper than orange drops. and even though they look grimy, they were unused.