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Thanks Martin! I thought the same thing after I took the pics, but they're soldered. I recall being very sparse with the solder there. I think I changed a wire or two and that's why it came out ugly. Such a rookie move not tinning my leads...martin manning wrote:Very nice! I'm cooking up a Rocket myself, so thanks for the pics and ideas. These two ground lugs look like they need solder:
Nothing there when I look at that photo? Cut pot left pin wired to board, center pin has CDE .0047 cap wired to board. High Cut Control.Paultergeist wrote:Blackburn, I have a question: in your first photo, there is a black square-shaped component soldered to the left-most lug of the "Cut" pot. This component is also connected to the ground buss bar as well as the board. I do not recognize either the component itself or the relationship with the Rocket documents (layout, etc)......trying to figure out what is going on there.
Can you elaborate?
I think Mark's right and you're talking about my hi cut cap. It's a big SOB!Paultergeist wrote:Blackburn, I have a question: in your first photo, there is a black square-shaped component soldered to the left-most lug of the "Cut" pot. This component is also connected to the ground buss bar as well as the board. I do not recognize either the component itself or the relationship with the Rocket documents (layout, etc)......trying to figure out what is going on there.
Can you elaborate?
I'm not sure why you think it's soldered to the ground buss or the left most lug of the pot. It's soldered to the wiper.Thank you Mark and Blackburn......Blackburn wrote: I think Mark's right and you're talking about my hi cut cap. It's a big SOB!
Yeah, it's 1/8" board from WTA, and very beefy indeed. He offers two lengths of eyelets and you are correct that they are the longer of the two. The caps I assume you're referring to are the PI caps and those are 716Ps. They're pretty skinny and taller than the 6PS. Inexpensive PPs and pure copper leads. I dig!angelodp wrote:Is that an 1/8" think board you used... beefy. I suppose the eyelets are extra long as well? Do my eyes deceive me or are those caps extra large size... the orange caps.
I had it hanging where the 220k and PI entrance cap meet. I didn't solder it in. I just wrapped the lead around that tiny jumper on the board and clipped the other end to the ground buss. You'll definitely hear a reduction in gain and more richness in overdrive. It's a great mod for that, but the cleans aren't as good IMO, like I said.donzoid wrote:My eyes are turning green! Nice build indeed. Can you (yeah, I know) show me where you had the extra 220K drop resistor? I am thinking of trying that as well on my 18w Rocket as it has so flippin' much gain it really has no need to go beyond 10 o'clock so I thought that might give me more control over the gain using the vol. knob.
Kinda like to hear your thoughts on that JJ V1 tube. I have a balanced one I bought for a PI, and I didn't like it there, but maybe V1 is a better place?
It actually is kind of nice, with gold pins and what not. It has a longer plate and has a nice, fat tone, working great for V1. I put it there because I'm using triple mica TAD 7025s and those are short plates with less gain. They're pretty darn quiet! Very chimey, too. Longer plates seem to have more gain and in a higher gain amp, like a LP or Express, can be pretty noisy. I wouldn't mind those TADs in every spot, though. I tried them out in a couple other amps and really dig them. Very nice tubes for modern production.
