Credit and full disclosure:
This was the brainchild and handiwork of my friend, one of the regional vacuum tube/analog hifi gurus, who -- now and again -- posts to these august* fora under the inexplicable moniker @forkliftman15
heh.
heh.
heh.
Yes, you can.
Roll your own AVC, that is.
Proof of concept (alpha test, I suppose you might say).
On loan from its creator, en route to another local via my house (always an irrestible temptation!); I am fiddlin' with it as I type this, and it's -- rather remarkably good.
The only problems (fairly minor though they be in a proof of concept design/build):
1) it's dual mono (two knobs to turn)
2) it's not audio taper... it's Variac taper. 🤭
Rumour has it that Dave Slagle started out somewhere along these lines before he had his run-in with the Iron Devil down on at the crossroads.
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* yeah, yeah -- I know it's September... work with me, here!
This was the brainchild and handiwork of my friend, one of the regional vacuum tube/analog hifi gurus, who -- now and again -- posts to these august* fora under the inexplicable moniker @forkliftman15
heh.
heh.
heh.
Yes, you can.
Roll your own AVC, that is.
Proof of concept (alpha test, I suppose you might say).
On loan from its creator, en route to another local via my house (always an irrestible temptation!); I am fiddlin' with it as I type this, and it's -- rather remarkably good.
The only problems (fairly minor though they be in a proof of concept design/build):
1) it's dual mono (two knobs to turn)
2) it's not audio taper... it's Variac taper. 🤭
Rumour has it that Dave Slagle started out somewhere along these lines before he had his run-in with the Iron Devil down on at the crossroads.
_________________________
* yeah, yeah -- I know it's September... work with me, here!