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Back to the ADAM S3A (I couldn’t leave them alone)
It’s been around a year since I got my old trusty Adam S3As back to life – still no problems with the new crossovers. I thought a lot about making another version of those crossover boards and get them completely assembled – just as an experiment, because until now I always did all the soldering… Continue reading
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Reconciliation (Trainwreck Express clone part 3)
The more I think about it, the more it bothers me that I’m calling this amp a ‘clone’ of a Trainwreck Express. I guess a very significant and distinguishing aspect for the community regarding what those Trainwreck amps are all about is not just the circuit itself (especially since there are so many different versions… Continue reading
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What have I done? (Trainwreck Express clone part 2)
At some point in 2020/21, I must have thought that it would be a great idea to build a high-gain amp without a master volume, or perhaps make it more versatile with a simple two-wire post phase inverter volume control. Turns out I was very wrong. I wired everything up for a first test, and… Continue reading
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Old/new guitar amp project (Trainwreck Express clone part 1)
Here’s another project that’s been in the pipeline since the end of 2020. Back then, I designed a PCB for a Trainwreck Express-inspired amp. As far as I remember, I thought it would be an interesting idea to fuse this classic, mythical amp with a modern design and layout of my own, and see/hear where… Continue reading
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ADAM S3A speaker journey
Back in 2017 I got a used pair of those speakers and have been using them since as my main speakers for mixing and the occasional mastering. Some engineers I really looked up to used them (and still use them I think) so I was very curious how they sound like. Fortunately I fell in… Continue reading
