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• DIY Audio

  • Source Components

    • Slimserver up & running
    • Upgrading to SlimServer 6.2.2 to 6.3.1
    • Upgrading to SlimServer 6.3.1 to 6.5b3
    • Welborn PSREGHC regulator

    • SlimServer & SqueezeBox

      • Slimserver up & running
      • Upgrading to SlimServer 6.2.2 to 6.3.1
      • Upgrading to SlimServer 6.3.1 to 6.5b3

  • Preamplifiers

  • Amplifiers

    • ASAP?
    • Borbely EB-396/225T driver boards
    • Borbely EB-596/228 powre supply
    • Borbely EB-600/312
    • Borbely kit
    • Cary Rocket 88?
    • Chipamp anyone?
    • Chokes for the Bobely EB-396/25
    • Ella Signature
    • Finding a mains transformer: the quest begins
    • Goodies from Mouser
    • HOW MUCH???
    • James output transformers
    • Larry Black's back
    • More chipamps
    • My Borbely kit arrived today!
    • My Borbely kit is in the mail!
    • Next up... a mains transformer
    • No sign of the Welborne kits :-(
    • Ordered regulated power supplies and a remote control attenuator
    • OTLs?
    • R-core transformers
    • The mains transformer saga continues...
    • The missing order
    • The Welborne regulators arrived today
    • Three months, five days
    • Welbone PSREG kit
    • What's up with Welborne?
    • Why not a SET... with more than 7 watts/channel?

  • Speakers

    • DIY speakers

  • Parts & Supplies

    • Ordered regulated power supplies and a remote control attenuator
    • The Welborne regulators arrived today

• Guitars & Amps

  • New York Vintage Guitar Show...
  • The path to madness

  • Guitars

    • Another one slips away
    • Celebrity Death Match: Yamaha Weddington Custom vs. PRS Custom 24
    • DIY guitars?
    • Elusive MIJ guitars
    • For Sale: Wagner Darkburst bridge and Crossroads neck pickups
    • Gibson vs. Gibson
    • Guitar acquisition syndrom... it's a GAS, GAS, GAS
    • Initial thoughts about the Ceritatone DC30, Part II
    • Miss October Off to a New Home
    • My new "Old Wood" '08 R9
    • My Old Yamaha Pacifica 1412 Lives!
    • Ordered me a McNaught today!
    • Paging Rich Lasner
    • PRS Custom 22 Soapbar Photos
    • PRS Custom 24: Gone, but not forgotten
    • Rich Lasner on the Yamaha Pacifica Series
    • Serendipity
    • Sometimes you just get lucky
    • Still got the urge...
    • The bride stripped bare
    • The PRS Custom 22 Soapbar that got away
    • The Schroeder Tour Guitar pays a visit
    • The seed is planted... uh-oh
    • Thinking about selling my '89 PRS Custom 24
    • What did you do to your strat to make it YOUR STRAT?

    • The Goldnut Variation

      • Building a Guitar from Scratch - The Goldnut Variation #1

    • Yamaha Weddingtons

      • A new used Yamaha Weddington Custom
      • Another one slips away
      • Celebrity Death Match: Yamaha Weddington Custom vs. PRS Custom 24
      • Christmas comes a little early
      • Installing a TonePros Bridge & Tailpiece
      • Miss October Off to a New Home
      • New Yamaha Weddington Custom Photos
      • Rich Lasner on the Yamaha Weddington
      • Shocked and amazed: The Weddington Watch, May 20, 2007
      • Shootout - Weddington vs. Weddington
      • Suspicions confirmed...
      • The Yamaha Weddington watch - April 28, 2007
      • The Yamaha Weddington watch - March 15, 2007
      • Two more Yamaha Weddingtons on eBay
      • Weddington Watch, December 10 2007
      • Weddington Watch, June 24, 2007
      • Weddington Watch, June 5 2007
      • Weddington Watch, October 26 2007
      • What's different about these guitars?
      • Yamaha Weddington Custom pictures
      • Yamaha Weddington hangtag, owner's manual and schematics!!!
      • Yamaha Weddington Watch, Nov. 2008
      • Yamaha Weddington Watch, Oct. 2008

  • Amps

    • A DIY practice guitar Amp? Yeah, that sounds good!
    • A new Avatar 212 is in the house
    • Addicted? You decide.
    • Amp shopping at Alto
    • Contingency plans
    • Giving the Mesa Lone Star another chance
    • Hot Plate... mmmm, good
    • In search of an amplifier
    • OCD
    • Ordered an Avatar Vintage 212 cab today

    • Ceriatone DC30

      • A visit with the cabinetmaker
      • Addicted? You decide.
      • Back to square one
      • Cabinet plans
      • Ceriatone DC30 Head case, continued
      • Ceriatone DC30 kit arrived yesterday!!!
      • Ceriatone DC30 update
      • Contingency plans
      • DC30, SC-30 or HC-30???
      • Death of a 5AR4
      • Dr. Z on the Matchless DC30
      • Frustration. Confusion. Disappointment. And a new head case.
      • GZ34, what's that?
      • In search of an amplifier
      • Initial thoughts about the Ceritatone DC30
      • Initial thoughts about the Ceritatone DC30, Part II
      • Mains transformer connected
      • My power scaling conundrum
      • New tubes = new amp?
      • Output transformer connected
      • Power scaling no more
      • Power scaling redux
      • Pulled the trigger on a Ceriatone DC30 kit today
      • The Ceriatone DC30 Lives!!!
      • Tone Tubbies are on their way
      • Transformers mounted
      • Trash or treasure?
      • Tubes, tubes and more tubes
      • Tweaking and a second go at power scaling

    • Marshall JMP50 (1987) Build

      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 10
      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 2
      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 3
      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 4
      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 5
      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 6
      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 7
      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 8
      • JMP50 Clone Build, Part 9
      • Marshall JMP50 (1987) Build, Pt.1

• Vehicles

  • Black Box

    • I bought a Boxster... on eBay
    • Pictures of the Boxster
    • The Boxster is Back on the Road!

Amps

Hot Plate… mmmm, good
Posted by Kurt on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 04:17 PM

A 16 ohm THD Hot Plate helps tame the Ceriatone Muchle$$ DC30 clone

OCD
Posted by Kurt on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 09:23 PM

A Fulltone OCD pedal comes home to live with the Ceriatone DC30

Giving the Mesa Lone Star another chance
Posted by Kurt on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 08:50 PM
Amp shopping at Alto
Posted by Kurt on Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 06:09 PM

Comments about Mesa Boogie’s Lonestar Classic, Stiletto Ace and Express 5:50

A new Avatar 212 is in the house
Posted by Kurt on Monday, February 12, 2007 at 07:09 PM
Ordered an Avatar Vintage 212 cab today
Posted by Kurt on Friday, February 09, 2007 at 01:30 PM
Contingency plans
Posted by Kurt on Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 02:04 PM
Addicted?  You decide.
Posted by Kurt on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 12:35 PM
In search of an amplifier
Posted by Kurt on Sunday, December 03, 2006 at 02:16 PM
A DIY practice guitar Amp?  Yeah, that sounds good!
Posted by Kurt on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 02:01 PM