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Originally posted by FourT6and2 Well, by "high gain" I meant higher gain than the champ clone I built. I'm looking at the High Octane from ax84. The Silvatone version looks and sounds very nice over at www.silvatone.bravepages.com Only problem is I don't have a drill press to make a chassis or make holes in a turret board. There's a nice version as well at www.ceriatone.com but they preassemble the board for you...and that takes all the fun out of it. And I don't like the layout as much as the Silvatone version. Well, start by making your own drill press. That's real boutique.

Originally posted by SteinbergerHack I've only done a couple of amps (my own personal ones), but I've been in industrial electronics for over 15 years, and hold a number of patents. Frankly, I'd have been fired long ago if I used the designs and layouts used in most off-the-shelf guitar amps..... +1 from another pro electronics design engineer.

Originally posted by charliedango I posted these in another thread, but since this one started, I might as well repost them here. Now, those are really poorly designed PCBs!

I'm in Europe (or the UK at least) and here's a curve ball: Used Marshall 6100LM 30th Anniversary series, or Vox AD120VTH