ampfixer
Wow, my stuff is primitive compared to that amp. My hat's off to you sir.

I'll bet your amps sound better than mine does right now.  There are some disadvantages to folding what would have been a very long Fender amp as it puts some things closer together than they'd normally be.  I'm hoping a small amount of tweaking will clean things up.  When it's loud, everything is fine
 
At the time I wanted it all, but I've since seen the merit of well-done simple designs.  That's on my list of things to do.

ampfixer
I love the vibrato that Fender used in the brown Concert amps.

 
It was reading a lot of comments like this that made me want to build the circuit.  I'd never heard it myself.  It's pretty fascinating.  It's been a while but I think it splits the signal into high and low frequencies, has them ride (differently) on opposing sine waves, then both sides are recombined and the sine wave cancels out.  Or something like that.  It does sound really nice and is one part of the amp that turned out just fine.
 
The circuit only uses 2-1/2 tubes so I was able to use the remaining 1/2 tube for some makeup power before going on to the output section.
 

 
John, have you figured out how to post images yet ?  I'm sure I'm not the only one who's waiting for some show and tell from your end.  Sounds like we could all learn some lore from you.  I use photobucket.com which is easy and free.  Just drag pictures from windows onto the web page.
 

ampfixer
Did you select different caps for different effects? I see 5 different cap types, not including the electrolytics.

Good question !  No, it definately wasn't for effect.  I just went through my files and didn't find much other than my parts lists, but I'm pretty sure they were chosen on the basis of value and voltage (naturally) and then which company had the best reputation (being based on quality, folklore, or both).  So Sprague, Mallory and the like.  There was a reason for using the three disc caps for the oscillator but I don't remember what it was.
 
It would take years of building (like you may have) to discern differences in tone based on types of parts used.  I just wanted high grade parts that wouldn't fail.  So it's more of a military spec amp than a tone machine lovingly put together from odd parts that were individually tested for the sound quality.  Not that I wouldn't want to do that, but it'll have to wait till I retire !  I've always had trouble with the fact that the tone we all love is the direct result of using cheap parts.
 
I just noticed your mention of tubestore.com.  That's where I got most of my tubes from, other than a few NOS tubes I was lucky to come across at a local fleamarket.  We moved right after my amp building spree and everything is still in boxes - oscilloscope, tube tester, Sprague capacitor tester, and a nice Heathkit IP-17 400v tube-based power supply.  I just went through some old posts, and see that I spent at least two years researching things before building the above amp in 2008.  I've forgotten most of it !
 
 

batsbrew

my mesa boogie Mark 2B, runs 6L6's.....
and i've always used mesa branded tubes, they sound and work well,
last a long time.
 

I always use.mesa tubes in my Mk IIb also. And in my Mk IV.

But in my Carvin Nomad that has EL84's in it, I have a bunch of old tubes that I like to switch out and play around with the preamp tubes. Some of the best are some black plate RCA's 12AT7's. Those have a real good old school sound.

Funny thing is, in the Boogie amp, only the Mesa tubes works best in it. I tried some of the old tubes and it just didn't sound as good as with the Mesa tubes.

Wwow. I could get into that for sure. In fact at one time I had my Mk IIB out of it's box just trying different tubes in it. Left it like that for better part of six months.

I see you had a few options to keep that "contraption" in the spot you needed!! Chains, twine, and a nice heavy duty handle to turn it!!

Looks like something out of the Spanish Inquisition!
I've reached the point where I hate pulling a 100 watter out of the wood...
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