When constantly moving and playing late it’s not easy to carry a cab around and to crank it. In the previous couple of months I’ve been building a gear around idea to have either just a preamp or a whole amp with a dummy load, use my Palmer PDI-09 as a speaker sim and plug t...
And, if you’d like to learn more about tube amplifiers in general, take a look at this piece which notes one of the best stereo amps ever produced. Posted in Musical HacksTagged amp, amplifier, baxandall, dummy load, equalizer, headphone, music, reactive load, tube, vacuum ...
Click to load video One of the 90s’ defining albums The deeply melancholic “Roads” is titled as a play on the sadness of Neil Solman’s tremolo-treated Rhodes piano, dominating the blue atmosphere wreathed with Gibbons’ desolation: “I got nobody on my side/And surely that ain’t rig...
After years of using high wattage power resistors, I'm considering upgrading to get a DC electronic load for using as a dummy load to test power supplies. Most of the time I'm dealing with smaller PSU's based on LM317/337 and 78XX/79XX, but occasionally deal with some bigger console...
To be honest, I was expecting that inductor will make a bigger change, but just can’t tell the difference between the resistive load and this device. To test this, I recorded a clip of clean guitar, played it from my laptop through the amp and recorded on Boss Micro BR. One clip is...