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The preamp is pretty important to an amp, so whats parts of the trainwreck preamp can be used while being able to leave the rest of the preamp of the amp that you are "trainwrecking"?

The preamp is pretty important to an amp, so whats parts of the trainwreck preamp can be used whilebeing able to leave the rest of the preamp of the amp that you are "trainwrecking"?

The preamp is pretty important to an amp, so whats parts of the trainwreck preamp can be used whilebeing able to leave the rest of the preamp of the amp that you are "trainwrecking"?

Hello, i have of people "trainwrecking" an amp and i am just wondering, how do you trainwreck an amp? What does it involve? What are you taking from the trainwreck? and anyother questions i should ask but haven't?

Thanks in advance!

this is a bit of i hijack, but i have a spare, new, greenback that i was thinking about using in a 2x12, what would go well with it? i would like to use celestion because they are cheap here in England, in fact, their factory is not far from where i live.

thanks guys, previously i had a marshll TSL100 through a 1960AV cab and that sounded fine at room levels (considering its not a particularly good sounding amp IMO) but that had a master volume and a pentode/triode switch. I am not a fan of low wattage valve amps, i find that they just dont have the ...

hello, its almost time for me to buy the bits for my express build, but before i do, i just remembered that i am not in a band and hence, do not need the volume.
So how do these amps sound through an attenuator at bedroom level?

thanks.

that cab is very nice, love how the front is a different colour! i was thinking about finishing it in the same way a guiatr is done. Like a cherry burst les paul but no burst, just cherry. I think, if i can find a lighter piece of zebrano it should work swimmingly. I have never painted anything more...

heyho, for my build when i eventually have the money to do it, i want to build a head cab out of zebrano and stain in cherry red. Problem is, zebrano is quite a dark wood and i am worried that it wont quite come out how i would like. has anyone done a similar build? how did it turn out? what wood di...

thanks guys, i will definitely ask for the ODs and an external bias can only make life easier. here are the links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2nMFvu-x4U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlzFdrJUDU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU5OJS8nFKY&feature=user http://www.youtube.com/watc...

if you think of distortion a sand, and crunchy over drive as boulders, then fizz is like dust and fluff. Similar to fuzz effect. AC30s can sound fizzy at times. Often the fizz is added at the recording stage when equipment clips or the mic is positioned poorly. Thanks for the help guys. If i do end ...

personally i prefered clip X but the overdrive squeelie bend at the start of Y squealed like a lil piggy which i love.

Hello there, i have been looking at building a ceriatone express but judging by the videos on youtube, it sounds a little on the "fizzy" side. So i was wondering how they can be modded to be more like the originals. I assume the fizzyness is coming from a cold PI tail resistor and easy to fix, but t...

Hi guys, i am pretty new to amp making, (i have only made a kit before) and would like to take on an express. I dont have the expertise or the funding to build from scratch so i was wondering what you could recomend in the form of a kit. Ceriatone is the only place i can find such a kit but from the...