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Awesome, love 6550's in these things.

Ah, makes sense. Yeah that'd be up around 73% dissipation if it were EL34's in this amp.

Just found out about this neat gadget, though it unfortunately only comes in strat-style knobs: https://www.thatklickknob.com/ It's a knob with an on-the-fly settable detent.

I'm thinking about installing an end-stop resistor on my guitar's volume pot, behind a push-push switch, for similar results that I can toggle off/on.

Is that considered hot? 6550's are 35W tubes, 42W for some like the Sovtek 6550WE's, and 39 mA is only 18.64W at that plate voltage. So somewhere between 44% and 53% dissipation.

I use the .8 mm core version of the stuff I recommended above, for just about everything. You'll have to feed more than you're used to, but there's a bit more control due to that. Haven't tried 1.6mm core so can't comment on specific differences. I'm usually cooking at 390C.

They have a table here for the "44" flux solders: https://www.kester.com/products/product/44-flux-cored-wire Looks like the closest is their 1.5mm diameter solder: On digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/kester-solder/24-6337-0061/31179 They also have one with less flux, 2.2%...

Fryette mentioned that recently. Apparently whenever it's re-released it's going to have more headroom.

Ah, you did the head conversion?

I did the same thing a while ago when a friend and I were discussing whether the first few bars before the drums were swung. Slowed it down, and it was plain as day he was swinging it.

Try changing your password. Maybe someone has it and keeps trying to log in with it, resulting in you getting the 2FA code emails.

Is there a setting for monitoring preferences? In my DAW if I set it to have the audio hardware handle monitoring, no sound will come through the speakers while I record, but when I play back the track I can hear it. Also, how are your speakers connected to the computer?

Nope, didn't try any of that. In most cases, yeah I assume the tradeoff would be worth it. Anywhere the level of the guitar signal doesn't matter much. In this particular case I wanted the looper to hit the front end of my 4104 hard, the same way my pickups do, and generally perfectly replicate...

I picked up a JamMan Express XT to use for tech stuff, piping guitar into an amp while I'm poking around inside, and ran into what I think is a lack of headroom. First sign of trouble: playback almost always sounded duller than the original signal. Further investigation: ran from the looper...

Maybe they're saving the 12L for the 25k Murphy Labs Thiele.

Better than DragonForce.

It's around, but doesn't get a lot of airtime now it seems. Basically it's a bass reflex with huge speaker-sized ports and oversized baffles. "Detuned" in the sense it's not tuned like a modern bass reflex would be, with fancy filter transfer functions and stuff. Found out about it from Kevin...

Undercovers, brah. Glad that's fixed.

Listening back, I like it a lot more now than I did last night. Still not quite ideal in my book, but it's definitely it's own thing.

Hmm... Where were we? Right, not using 57's. Haven't had the volume issues again, and just today finally built a PZM wedge stereo mic array. Pro: it sounds pretty realistic. Con: realistically, sticking your head right in front of a speaker cabinet isn't that pleasant. Beaming is biting, I tweak...