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<blockquote data-quote="drew gandy" data-source="post: 43000" data-attributes="member: 880"><p>Re: Sorry, but I had to show this.</p><p></p><p>I think both of you have me beat for novelty if only by virtue of your additional years (and perhaps because of the era afforded by those years). If I had been born 5 years earlier I'm almost sure I would have attempted my own mixing console. I made a couple small ones (4 channels or so) but couldn't justify the price for anything larger when Peavey would sell me one for so cheap, with a warranty. One little thing I did do with the amp pictured above is that I added extra windings to the toroid to get the rails up to a whopping +-45v. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />~:-D~:grin: That's something that wouldn't have been so possible with a "box" transformer. I just looked on the circuit board for that thing and it says "Tung-Yung Sound Master". I didn't remember it having such a cool name. I think it came from Mark V Electronics if anyone remembers them. A few years ago I realized that I was born at a point where I'm basically between 2 eras. I was just starting to understand how to build stuff when it was becoming ridiculous to consider making your own. The time I spent tinkering with analog audio might have been better spent learning C and becoming an early round digital guy. For some reason I never made the jump from integer basic to the good stuff. Ah, the future's still pretty bright...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drew gandy, post: 43000, member: 880"] Re: Sorry, but I had to show this. I think both of you have me beat for novelty if only by virtue of your additional years (and perhaps because of the era afforded by those years). If I had been born 5 years earlier I'm almost sure I would have attempted my own mixing console. I made a couple small ones (4 channels or so) but couldn't justify the price for anything larger when Peavey would sell me one for so cheap, with a warranty. One little thing I did do with the amp pictured above is that I added extra windings to the toroid to get the rails up to a whopping +-45v. :D~:-D~:grin: That's something that wouldn't have been so possible with a "box" transformer. I just looked on the circuit board for that thing and it says "Tung-Yung Sound Master". I didn't remember it having such a cool name. I think it came from Mark V Electronics if anyone remembers them. A few years ago I realized that I was born at a point where I'm basically between 2 eras. I was just starting to understand how to build stuff when it was becoming ridiculous to consider making your own. The time I spent tinkering with analog audio might have been better spent learning C and becoming an early round digital guy. For some reason I never made the jump from integer basic to the good stuff. Ah, the future's still pretty bright... [/QUOTE]
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