didn´t a ts in front made it more "evil"?
wasn´t it enough to drive it out the "rock zone"?
The Lead Channel of the Amp is more a singing highgain-Sound for Leadlines. TS changes the Tone alittle or gives more Gain (not really needed) but doesn't make it more "dirty" to get those Rythm-sound for Riffs.
was it easy to built? for a total noob?
Yes and No. I am not a complete noob. I am not new to soldering, I have built some kits for Microcontrollers etc before. If you know how to solder, building the board is very easy. I think the board was finished after 2 or 3 hours. I checked and metered every part that was not labeld (resistors only have a color-code) and doublechecked those parts, where the polarity matters. If you can concentrate on what you are doing and can take the time, that it needs to build it, you will have a working board in one evening. I didn't had any errors on the board.
Wiring the frontpanel was pain. The complete Tone-control is soldered directly at the potentiometers at the frontpanel. 3 Channels with their own EQ, Gain, Volume and a switch will end in alot of wires
You get the 19" Case delivered without holes, so you need the tools for drilling them. I did it at the university, where my girlfriend studies. There is a table-drilling-machine that makes life alot easier (now that I found out, that building fx-pedals is a cool hobby, I bought my own, so I can build cases at home).
The part, where I wanted help was the wiring and testing of the high-voltage stuff. Those Tubes take 400V DC to heat and you can easily die by touching the wrong places in the amp. After disconnecting the Amp, it takes 10-20 Minutes until you can touch every part again, so I took the help of my guitarplayer from my band you built some amps before.
Alltogether it took me around 12h to build the amp. 3h sorting stuff and soldering, around 3h to drill and rasp (??) the case, 3h wiring everything and 3h finding/fixing a bug on the layout (that should be fixed by the creator of the kit now) together with modificating some parts.
Hope my english wasn't too bad so I could help ^^
Actually, that's a really good idea, putting it a 19" rack. Hmmmm.
Usually I just google facepalm and tah dah.
