Martini
on January 21, 2014
at 12:01 am
Elaine takes pride in her work.
This one was really fun to draw. I’ve always really enjoyed drawing bottles for some reason, even as a kid. I think its because you can get absurdly detailed without having to try too hard.
I started plotting a chassis layout for my new guitar amp this weekend. I took a picture (before finalizing the layout, unfortunately). EL34s are really pretty tubes.
Those absolutely massive caps are actually from a laser power supply. I got them on the cheap at our local electronics flea market. Hopefully they still work!
Cheers all! Thanks for reading. I’ll see you Thursday.
She…she’s not going to have to throw that martini away, is she? That’s downright tragic, that is.
And this guy has serious social skill impairment.
Anyway, just wanted to say I discovered your fine comic today, read the whole thing, and really enjoy it! Keep up the good work!
And good luck with the new amp. I know nothing about electronics, but it looks really cool.
Thanks GC! It’s an honor.
And you’ll just have to come back tomorrow to see what happens to the martini 😉
Oh, you’re building an amp, the old fashion way, with some real nice “warm” tubes! It reminded me of an Mackintosh 60 I used to have. Two EL34’s and two 5U4’s were the back row. With the lights out, I saw the blue aura around the ’34’s plates that would blink out on the base notes. Get transistors to do that! I just found you today when reading CD Rudd’s “Jeanie Bottle”. Write on, Phil!
Thanks Gladsong!
I love the blue glow. I never noticed it get dimmer when slamming bass tones before. I’ll have to pay closer attention once I get this guy up and running.
Yes, admittedly transistors are pretty much better in every way, but tubes are just plain fun. This one will be interesting in that for my tone stack I’m actually building a tube op-amp out of a pair of 12ax7s. This is sort of blasphemous as far as “tube sound” goes, but I think it will sound good in the end. After all, passive tone controls are usually pretty disappointing.