Category: DIY

Dumble Overdrive Special – Headshell

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 […] 

Dumble Overdrive Special

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 […] 

Saving monitors: leaky capacitors

A common issue with electronics are when small insignificant components fail. Fixes then usually only depend on 1) Knowledge/problem solving and 2) 1-2 $/€/£ in replacements.   In this case a very common issue, leaky electrolytic capacitors. While most parts […] 

Tiny 24Core Virtualization/Computation server from hacked hardware!

For some time a good way to get cheap and powerful computers, outside of cutting edge gaming or single-core heft, have been to get used server CPU’s. There is even a interesting hardware hacking community around this practice coming out […] 

25 Year old computer as a firewall: 60Mbps throughput!

If you have spend some time around a computer interested individual you may at one time or another have come across the suggestion that a good use for an old computer is as a firewall and router around your home. […] 

Silence your Guitar Amp – Variable Voltage Regulator

Guitarists often find themselves in love with their amps, playing an electric guitar a lot of the time what’s making up your sound is found far down the chain from your actual strings. And here comes the problem, the best […] 

Easy Naim Hifi poweramp upgrades

Why these mods work is quite simple, even very expensive hifi-gear tend to use cheap sonically bad components where size  is an issue. With some looser considerations there, however, really is room to hook up, for instance, capacitors that better […] 

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