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Dumble ODS: 2. Mods
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 […]
Guitar rebuild: 1. onboard preamps & hardware
From 70’s hard rock, to a credible metal guitar this one started its life 1982 in Japan, built in the great Matsumoku shop. Known for making some of the world’s best mass produced guitars at the end of the 70’s […]
RangeMaster – Pedal Progression 1
In this series I revisit and re-build some of my favorite guitar pedals. Here a treble booster is given some of the best vintage parts possible, protection circuitry, power supply filtering, a negative voltage supply, some indication circuitry, and a, […]
Turning laptops into mini-servers
One of the most common e-waste sources out there is laptops, slower than other computers and often not upgradable, lacking ability to change peripherals, like screens. A sad fact as the vast majority of people do rarely use the full […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Restomod Car: Engine 1
With an old, regular, car like this, it is usually abandoned for a crusher, or parts hunter, however restoring and rebuilding it better than stock is both financially easily attainable and can bring nice active relaxation. This project car is […]