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Homelab: 2 Tiny 24 Core virtualization Computation with hacked hardware
A compact homelab build using repurposed server CPUs and hacked hardware to create a tiny 24-core virtualization machine.
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TrainWreck Rockette: 2 Headshell
The TrainWreck Rockette headshell stage begins with an old VOX donor amp, teardown work, and heat-management prep.
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Dumble Overdrive Special: 2 Headshell
A woodworking-focused Dumble Overdrive Special entry covering the amplifier headshell build.
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Saving Monitors: Leaky capacitors
A quick repair example showing how leaking capacitors can bring old monitors back to life for very little cost.
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Silence Your Guitar Amp: Variable Voltage Regulator
A variable voltage regulator lets a loud tube guitar amp keep more of its core feel while behaving better at home volumes.
Dumble Overdrive Special
Build notes and progress entries around a Dumble Overdrive Special-inspired amplifier project.
Dumble Overdrive Special: 1 Head & circuit
21 July 2022
The Dumble amplifiers are clearly the highest priced guitar amplifiers ever to exist, and with good, or at least understandable, reason. These amplifiers fetch more than 50.000$/€ a piece, a staggering sum. Why this is understandable can be gleaned by two or…
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Dumble Overdrive Special: 2 Headshell
21 July 2022
Head, strange word for this but is what it's called, a head being the amplifier, presumably sitting on the 'body' represented by the stacks of speaker cabs. Using a schematic from the ampgarage.com forum as a base I set out to do…
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Dumble Overdrive Special: 3 Mods
13 April 2023
Doing a copy of an amp can be a good learning experience, modifying it to suit your needs and taste, however, can be the really rewarding bit. Here I detail added FX loop, footswitchable; dual HRM, with bypass, FETboost, moved gain bias…
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