Dos Hombres, a 14 Watt 2 channel 6CM6 combo amp build

I laced the OT in this morning. The blue and brown secondary wires were left long until I prove the phasing upon startup, then I'll trim them to length. This set of jacks is a choice of 8 Ohm or 16 Ohm. The jacks above these are for the passive FX loop. I have some wiring on the relay boards next, and on the preamp term strips, then I can bolt in the turretboard

 
T-Rex said:
The blue and brown secondary wires were left long until I prove the phasing upon startup, then I'll trim them to length.
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Push pull output transformer primary wiring colour coding was pretty well standardized in the old days, depending of course on country of manufacture & some manufacturers still follow this colour coding. In USA made output transformers with brown/blue plate leads;
brown = inverted side,
blue = non inverted side.
This can be seen in some of the old Fender amps. The USA Musical Power Supplies OT5PP in my JCM800 micro follows this scheme too. Whether or not your OT follows this scheme remains to be seen. Cheers
 
And after 2 months or so off, I decided to switch design thoughts. I still have the prototype, so I decided to swap preamps on this build away from the prototype. As luck would have it the turretboard was two rows not wide enough for my new plans, so I ripped it out and started over.

The "Clean channel concept" stays building block similar to the prototype (which was modeled from a HBE Friedman), although the preamp values change. I went mostly with a Brown face 6G3 spec design for the preamp, changed the first stage cathode values, the coupling cap values, and added "Bright, more Bright or Normal" values on a mini switch. I deleted the voltage divider after the second stage from the previous prototype design, but left turrets in case I want to add it back in.

The "Dirty channel concept" got redesigned and is being rebuilt, designed after the preamp that was in a 10watt amp that I built in 2012. That amp was a one trick pony, but a very nice trick. Two heavily cascaded stages into a TMB tone stack, no CF, then on to the PI. The new board is mostly done, below.
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I almost bought an 18watt British kit, but I don't think I'm good enough to build one...then I knew I would be bummed if I did buy the 45 watt, plus a Tim Caswell extra gain stage, so I just bought an Origin 50H and put a set of Genelex B759 Gold Lions in it.. .then hammer it with a TS-9.

But I really admire your attention to detail!!!!!
 
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