Electronumpty's Bigbottle effort

lol yeah, pcb on it's way back to me, can't wait lol🙂

How much do you have left to do?

Won't have time to do until the weekend though

Yeah , plus theres the added distraction of the 6 nations....

Might have to sacrifice friday night to the bb !

Still once up and running I can veneer the case at my leisure!

ok so of course I had to hook it up tonight as I I couldn't wait for the weekend lol. No life in the Ecc88 by the looks of it, have swapped the valve out for another and the same. Ideas?

oops .....

Haha Haha,

It's all good.

Well I do have reputation to live down to...😄

Hope to have it up and running this weekend.

getting there

I am haz sounds 😁😁

Need to tidy up the wiring but all seems good🙂

Need another shelf now .

Thanks ! Feeling quite chuffed , sounds pretty good to!

How's it sounding?

Just seen the above post.

I'll post some 1st impressions in a while, but can't stop grinning. 🙂

So some initial impressions of the BB . First caveat is that I cannot compare to any stages costing more than £300 as I have never heard any, second is that my reference is to a Firebottle OTP which I have had for a few years and enjoyed immensely during that time , cost about £220 if I recall correctly.

Also these comments are only after 5/6 hours listening so I imagine there is more to come , but I like listening to kit as it beds in and seeing the difference as the sound develops.

1st thing I noticed was the extension on cymbals, after the hit the decay wwas long and gradual, they really shimmered when listening the Bonzo on Zep 4.

Second immediate standout was the presence and immediacy of the sound , the closest I can describe is almost like a wall of sound. Now this is something that I quite like but took me by surprise. However as things progessed this wall gave way to much more defined detail and nuance but still had that immediacy and presence.

As it played the soundstage became deeper as time went on, very 3D to me, almost made the OTP sound flat, 2D in comparison, it isn’t, but there’s a very noticable difference in depth.

Next was the tone, I don’t have much experience of valve kit but I imagine this is largely down to what ones are being used. Rich and crunchy guitars, natural vocals where you can hear the intake of breath and slight modulations in notes that weren’t there beforehand. Another factor of detail developing.

Bass was slightly recessed at first and the lower registers not really hitting, but I have had this with Mundorf caps before in the DCB1 so wasn’t worried, true to form by the 3rd album it was starting to come on stronger , still a bit to develop I think but its early days.

Playing some Elton John the piano sounds really natural and on tracks like Crocodile Rock the boogie factor really comes through which is great.

As an example of detail, on Zep 4 the more rocky tracks have a great and full guitar sound quite particular to that Zep album. Heard before the 2 channels L and R sound like 2 different guiters playing the same/similar riffs. Now they are, but what I can pick out now is that often they are both in different keys (not a musician but thats the impression I get) and also playing differnt licks and notes to add to the overall effect. Quite complex but not apparent to me so obviously before.

Finally when I say the music has more presence it’s not bloated or forced in any way, it still sounds very natural acros the frequency spectrum.

More soon but very pleased so far , good job Oliver and Alan! Thanks for your help and encouragement in getting this to produce these sounds! 😀😀