Recent content by Hank Grizzly

Hey, I recently designed a pre-amp for my harmonica, using a dual op amp chip at the center. I foolishly thought that choosing a chip and making a power supply (from a 9v battery) would be childs play. After looking it up online however, I see that there is allot more to it than a couple of 1k...

Decent headphones for about £50? Hey, title says it all really. To be used mainly for music production and listening to records (neighbours were getting angry). I was thinking a par of sennheiser HD465 or HD215, found them on sale about my price range. So anyone got any ideas?

Hey, i'm making a 4 band tube eq for guitar, and was wondering what frequencies I should put them at. If it makes any difference, I was gonna play my sg through the eq and reverb, sometimes clean sometimes with arbiter fuzz or ehx muff, into a fender champ 600. I mainly play surf, jazz and...

So how do the copyright laws towards schematics, parts, PCB, and everything work with pedals?

I have started to make my own effects, and was wondering if the components make as much difference as people seem to make out? I know that , for example, using a certain transistor would make a difference, but would the type of capacitor (not the capacitance) make any difference? Or the type of...

I was about to embark on the construction of A tube amp ( a 5E3) when my friend told me that the tubes in Fender (and other) amps are upside down because it sounds better, whereas I thought that surely it's just to save space as allot of amps are pointing up, and I swear tubes are supposed to be...

Hey, My friend just bought a Behringer TUBE COMPOSER T1952 and though it does sound damn fine, especially for the price, the tubes (two 12ax7's) could be cleaner as we don't just use it for guitar. I read somewhere about people replacing 12ax7's with other similar tubes, but only in amps, and...