What amp should I build?

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Good choice, keep us updated
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Yeah man! Can't wait to see how this shakes out.
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I have an unused Harley Benton GA5H head sitting in a box upstairs which i would love to mod into a tiny doom beast. Normally I go with clean amps and use pedals for dirt but would love to have a small simple amp that will give me fuzzed up tones on it's own but at bedroom levels.

Was looking at this site and was thinking it'd be cool to build a meathead or some form of one knob fuzz into it using their auxilary power supply.

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That'd be pretty neat. Even a clean boost is all you need to push those little tubes into fuzz heaven. I do it regularly!
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skullservant wrote:That'd be pretty neat. Even a clean boost is all you need to push those little tubes into fuzz heaven. I do it regularly!


Yeah?? Would they still break up that much even at low volumes? A simple lpb boost built into it could be cool if they do
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Hell yeah man! It really doesn't take much to push them into overdrive and fuzz heaven. There is also a mod that just removes a jumper, and when you do you sacrifice a little volume, but you get headroom. You could wire a jack with a wire to either side of the jumper, and it could essentially be a psuedo-2 channel amp. That's what I've done to mine. When you plug in a footswitch you can just jumper back the connection allowing you to have a little more grit and volume. That won't get you to fuzz, but its a cool mod. As far as adding a clean boost, the hardest part would be fabricating the auxilary power supply!
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Or80 clone
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i salute this thread.
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