So, last year i aquired this beautiful thing:
but it works).And i've been doing all sorts of things to it like modding the clean channel to be more fenderish(wich took away a lot of the channel's headroom, and i'm still trying to figure out how to fix that) and adding a simple high pass filter to the power amp to kill the awful sub-bass, and also adding a cathode bypass cap to the tube's first stage, and so on.. And it already sounds pretty good the way it is, but i think it could be better.
So now, i wanna try this:
The way this tube(currently a russian 6n2p, originally came with a 6bq7) stands in the curcuit right now it isn't doing much(just a clean stage followed by a buffer), so the idea here is to extract as much gain as possible from this single tube by turning it into 2 gain stages with its own gain control, followed by an opamp buffer(to substitute the cathode follower's function). And this should work, however, i have no idea of how big of a signal is gonna come out of that 2nd tube stage(and all i have to work with are a soldering iron and a cheap multimeter, so i can't really measure that preciselly), and if that is going to clip that opamp. And if does so, i wanna know about a more balsy buffer circuit with lots of headroom that would be able to withstand that without distorting the signal.
So, what do you guys think? Can this work? Suggestions?
). But anyway, learned a lot with this, the most important thing being: "If it ain't broke don't fix it" haha.
