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That's not really the answer to my question. You're just stating facts. There are 100s of amp builders communities out there, so what made you come to this one in particular? You have already told us that you are not generous. It must be a pain not being able to talk about your designs that your clients own. Kind of like working on space crafts and not being able to talk about what you do. Is that space craft you work on of an alien nature or is it one of ours?mooreamps wrote: It's a tube amp builders community. I build tube amps...... Certain details of my design work belong to my clients who contract my design and engineering services. I share what I can.....
Interesting. I would consider anything that is designed around a vacuum tube to be a legacy design.mooreamps wrote: I don't post comments usually for legacy designs. I let guys like ZP handle those issues. I do post comments for general engineering and amp theory.
Fortunately, ZP isn't here to handle the stuff that is beneath your pompous status. 
to you but when you wake up from where ever it is that you are, you will find out that you are playing with 100 year old electronic theory. Well somone must care because Omar saw the need to create an area to discuss other things than amps and technical stuff. You were the one who blatantly disregarded the intent of the Garage Talk area and posted the exciting news about your latest VJ technical triump. I simply pointed out you might want to post it where it belonged and you came back with your attitude. We then progressed into trying to find out why you are really here (Which you don't really know yourself) and why you have the attitude you do. The latter is more non technical so this thread turned into something that really should be in this area.mooreamps wrote: Besides, if it's posted in "Garage Talk" who cares, except when people like you highjacking other peoples threads......
I wouldn't call it hijacking, just steering it so it would fit this area. You see I was only trying to help and instead of getting "Oh sorry, Thanks for the tip" I got "Happy Now? 
Had I gotten "Oh sorry , thanks for the tip" we would have never progressed to where we are now so you can blame your attitude for this one, not me. It all comes back to your attitude. You put youself in these positions because you have no social skills. (see above for definition)
I don't even know these people.... Now it is true they didn't even give me a chance even over on 18watt.com, even though we donate money to Graydon to help pay his server bills. It was a perfectly legitimate question to ask since I have a different opinion how to power scale a pentode vacuum tube. But, did they even so much as ask me what was up. No. I get the polished t**d treatment and they turn right around call me names..... I'd been better off posting something really off topic like how to calibrate the AVHRR on the spacecraft, than something related to a guitar amp....benoit wrote:Ok, you guys don't like each other, but really, this is going nowhere. I realize I have the option of ignoring the thread which I probably should just do but this isn't the kind of argument that results in anyone saying "whoops I was wrong lets make up" or "hey this is silly lets just get along" and its not doing anyone any good except polarizing a community around who likes/respects moore and who doesn't. I would sort of like to see this thread locked or deleted or stricken from the record. Reminds me too much of places we're all trying to avoid.
Garymooreamps wrote:I don't even know these people.... Now it is true they didn't even give me a chance even over on 18watt.com, even though we donate money to Graydon to help pay his server bills. It was a perfectly legitimate question to ask since I have a different opinion how to power scale a pentode vacuum tube. But, did they even so much as ask me what was up. No. I get the polished t**d treatment and they turn right around call me names..... I'd been better off posting something really off topic like how to calibrate the AVHRR on the spacecraft, than something related to a guitar amp....benoit wrote:Ok, you guys don't like each other, but really, this is going nowhere. I realize I have the option of ignoring the thread which I probably should just do but this isn't the kind of argument that results in anyone saying "whoops I was wrong lets make up" or "hey this is silly lets just get along" and its not doing anyone any good except polarizing a community around who likes/respects moore and who doesn't. I would sort of like to see this thread locked or deleted or stricken from the record. Reminds me too much of places we're all trying to avoid.
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I once mentioned it to Kevin that I fully intended to "re-engineer" the vacuum tube guitar amplifier. Perhaps, at the time, it was a little more than what he could digest.
+ 1 gazillion!MooreCowbelle wrote:Gary,
well, you've obviously got under Dana's skin here, which is VERY rare. He's been around for quite a while on this and many other forums, and I haven't seen him this fired up since, well, I don't know.
I'm still trying to see the point of your original post. What was your premise? Did you think that posting a Valve Jr. mod on a forum focused on Dumbles and Trainwrecks was performing some sort of service or providing information? Did someone ask you to post these details? Were you looking to start a discussion about your design?
I listened to all your amp clips/vids with as an impartial ear as possible. All the advanced engineering aside, the simple fact of the matter is that your amps don't sound very good. I don't think I'm alone in that assessment. If they DID sound good, your pontification and "legacy technology is beneath me" attitude might be overlooked - but they don't, and it isn't. Instead, it is just annoying and pointless. Much like your original post.
PS. you might consider buying a tuner and using it before recording clips in the future
If you need to mitigate for the "line sag", why not just use a filament transformer?mooreamps wrote:If he said, look it's not appropriete to post anything VJ related on this forum, I would be fine with that. If someone said, well the Dumbles and the TW's don't do power scaling, I would be fine with that too. Then I would say, what about regulating the filament power supply to midigate the line sag in stage voltage. Maybe that would have been more appropreate for this type of forum..... But no, they jack me off like a 12 year old... and for the record, I don't take kindly being called a turd....
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No one called you a turd! Both Greg and myself refered to the VJ amp as a turd and the fact that after applying all the mods in the world ("Polishing") you are still going to have a "polished turd". Is the english language your first language?mooreamps wrote:If he said, look it's not appropriete to post anything VJ related on this forum, I would be fine with that. If someone said, well the Dumbles and the TW's don't do power scaling, I would be fine with that too. Then I would say, what about regulating the filament power supply to midigate the line sag in stage voltage. Maybe that would have been more appropreate for this type of forum..... But no, they jack me off like a 12 year old... and for the record, I don't take kindly being called a turd....
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You know Gary, earlier in this thread I said you lacked humility, social skills and that you miss the nature of this forum. Now you're arguing whether or not what you posted is appropriate. My guess is that if you could grasp the first two items on my list, we'd give you a pass on the third.mooreamps wrote:If he said, look it's not appropriete to post anything VJ related on this forum, I would be fine with that. If someone said, well the Dumbles and the TW's don't do power scaling, I would be fine with that too. Then I would say, what about regulating the filament power supply to midigate the line sag in stage voltage. Maybe that would have been more appropreate for this type of forum..... But no, they jack me off like a 12 year old... and for the record, I don't take kindly being called a turd....
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