Master of the Master
What Does That Mean? Maybe I should start by telling the story about an amp that I built. It started with a JCM 800 2204 kit and a chassis from Triode Electronics. It was a hand-wired kit, with a turret board and silver connectors. Triode Electronics sends a box of parts (excellent quality, high end parts), with instructions and a layout diagram. The builder sorts through all of the parts, including a pile of resistors and caps, and a boat load of different colored wires, knobs, transformers and a bunch of other stuff. I built a custom cabinet for the kit and branded the head, HEAT. So anyway, after putting the kit together I made a few modifications to the standard grounding circuit and dropped the white noise level down quite a bit, and changed the values of some resisters and caps in the preamp circuit to give it just a little more gain (not much more, just a touch). After playing the HEAT amp for a few weeks I quickly learned that the amp sounded absolutely amazing.