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Homelab: 3 Turning laptops into mini-servers
An argument for turning old laptops into mini-servers instead of e-waste, with practical homelab examples.
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Dumble Overdrive Special: 3 Mods
Dumble Overdrive Special: 3 Mods covers the effects loop, switching options, heaters, and other practical refinements beyond the base clone.
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Easy Naim Hi-Fi power amp upgrades
A straightforward set of component upgrades that can noticeably improve older Naim power amps and similar hi-fi amplifiers.
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Pedal Progression: 3 Zendrive
Pedal Progression moves on to a Hermida Zendrive rebuild, fixing old enclosure mistakes while keeping the fuller overdrive voice intact.
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Guitar Pedals: 1 Splitter pedal: Two guitar amps at once
A tiny active splitter for running two guitar amps at once, with buffering, ground lift, and phase correction built in.
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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