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I populated the boards while waiting for the other shipments. The chassis got here on Friday and I spend the whole weekend to finish the build. I tried to slow down but I can't even sleep well knowing it's there waiting to be built. I don't have a wire stripper and that slowed me down quite a bit though.
Rushing the work has taken its toll however. I made 2 mistakes that I know of. The first was that I cut one leg of the 0.1uF on Presence pot too short. I fixed that by soldering a short buss wire to the leg and then to the pot. The 2nd mistake was that I soldered the purple wire from the 27K resistor to the Bass pot. The wire was cut too short to reroute to the Presence pot. So I added a buss wire there, tubed it and heat shrinked the joint. My question is is there any harm in fixing those errors that way? Could add a little noise at least I guess?
Btw I fired the amp up for the first time at midnight. Thanks to the PPIMV I was still be able to play for a good hour. Can't wait till tomorrow to play it more
. I guess I was extremely luck as nothing went wrong when I installed the power tubes and fired it up for the first time. It then was weird because with that extreme 75mVDC bias voltage, the bias pot was fully counter clockwise that I thought would have lowest bias mV. I had turn it clockwise to reduce the bias volt to 38mVDC (is this a desirable value by the way?). Can someone clear this up for me? Is the pin 5 reading normal?
. Sometimes I enjoyed just staring at it. And it looks really cool without the plexi panels. I used a RC Booster and played a little Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Halen today and couldn't believe what I was hearing. This is THE tone and it is far superior to my playing 
. I just can't imagine how it'll sound after bedding in a fair amount. This amp has some serious mojo. I think I'll have to give it a name 
