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Re: What clone the best to build?

6/1/2000 4:39 AM
Steve Ahola	Re: What clone the best to build? BW: One Amp, One Optimal Tone... It sure seems to work out that way! However, if you can find two amp designs that share the same voltages and PI design, you should be able to couple them together successfully. Find a third and a fourth, and you are ready to rock! But if you just try to mix and match your favorite amps without regard to the voltage requirements, et al, you are in for a big disappointment. My project to build a BFSR and a 5F6A clone in the same chassis just kind of fizzled out because the voltage requirements were too diverse and the PI's are quite different. One amp that does a good job of capturing 3 different sounds with little compromise is the Mesa Boogie Maverick. When you change channels it switches the power supply rails and the bias voltage so it is really like two separate amps in one chassis. (The third sound is the crunch mode for the Rhythm channel.) To accomplish silent switching, the Maverick mutes the output signal briefly (and probably the signal going into the reverb tank as well). That is the last store-bought amp I REALLY WANTED TO GET... --Thanks! Steve Ahola P.S. My D'Clone has a great clean sound and a great OD sound... But it doesn't get a good BF sound.

6/1/2000 4:39 AM

Steve Ahola

Re: What clone the best to build?

BW:

One Amp, One Optimal Tone...

    It sure seems to work out that way! However, if you can find two amp designs that share the same voltages and PI design, you should be able to couple them together successfully. Find a third and a fourth, and you are ready to rock!

    But if you just try to mix and match your favorite amps without regard to the voltage requirements, et al, you are in for a big disappointment. My project to build a BFSR and a 5F6A clone in the same chassis just kind of fizzled out because the voltage requirements were too diverse and the PI's are quite different.

    One amp that does a good job of capturing 3 different sounds with little compromise is the Mesa Boogie Maverick. When you change channels it switches the power supply rails and the bias voltage so it is really like two separate amps in one chassis. (The third sound is the crunch mode for the Rhythm channel.) To accomplish silent switching, the Maverick mutes the output signal briefly (and probably the signal going into the reverb tank as well). That is the last store-bought amp I REALLY WANTED TO GET...

--Thanks!

Steve Ahola

P.S. My D'Clone has a great clean sound and a great OD sound... But it doesn't get a good BF sound.