After your order is placed, an order is written up on a wordprocessor with as much detail as you have given and all our notes. We wait if we are expecting to receive a tape. The shop manager creates a file with the written order plus a copy of your invoice to go to the amp shop. The first part of the project is planning of your amp circuit. If there are any custom details, Dan Torres will create a custom schematic, plus layout drawings for the new circuit. A hand made point to point circuit board(s) is made for your amp and parts are selected to stuff" (fill) it. We use custom made capacitors for the ultimate warm full tone, and the best resistors, wire, tube sockets, tubes, switches, jacks, pots, cables, transformers and power supply throughout the amp. The cabinet has to be ordered ASAP as it is usually the "time setter" on an amp project. The cabinet shop is given all details, speaker sizes, chassis dimensions, covering and any other details necessary for a top quality job every time. Your chassis is selected, inspected and prepared by the metal shop for any extra tubes, transformer mounting, wire pass-throughs, reverb trans, jacks, "Star" grounding (the quietest) and circuit board mounting. We like to plan everything ahead of time, and may spend quite a while consulting with each other on a complex amp to get everything perfect. A lot of experience and pure talent comes into force here and we can make amps others say are impossible. In assembly there are many, many testing stages for continuity, grounding, correct AC polarity, circuit design, and quality control. Circuit boards are inspected before going in place, transformers, tubes, etc. The amp is turned on the first time on a variac with only the rectifier in operation to test voltages throughout. Then again with only the power tubes to set bias and check voltages. Then with the preamp tubes in place to check voltages and bias again. THEN THE REAL WORK STARTS. Playing, listening, testing, adjusting, readjusting, until we get exactly what you want (this final stage may take two whole days.) Every amp is right, there are no lemons, and everyone is a little different - made for you. A lot of work and detail, very few shops have the resources materials, time and talent for all this quality, but we like them to sound good! |
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