A fat mid-range and warm liquid tone ?

[Joseph Bento]

Doctor and the Medics is nearly a PERFECT cover - right down to timing and even the 'train whistle' sound.  I had heard the cover, but never saw the video till I searched YouTube.  Someone commented the drummer made him hungry for a Happy Meal.  :-)   This band reminds me a bit of Slade, though I think Slade was probably around long before.

A 2N2222 is easier (for my American mind) to remember than a BC548, though the 548 is probably closer to our 2N3904.  Both are easily available.

Poor Norman must still collect royalties on that song, as it's still played to death on the old farts stations that I occasionally listen to.  Now, I need to sit down and learn that riff.

Joe, N6DGY



On Sep 27, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Phil wrote:

> Aaah, the 2N2222 - twice as good as the 2N1111. Can anyone really doubt that the 2N2222 was great because people could remember the part number easily?
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> Poor old Norman Greenbaum. A one-hit wonder, he spent all his royalties on that 1970 hit trying to come up with his next big hit, and it never came. When British band "Doctor and the Medics" became one-hit wonders with the same song in 1986, everybody tried to find Greenbaum and he was finally tracked down to his new career in the kitchen of a fast-food eatery. So many people telephoned him while at work wanting to interview him, his boss sacked him! Some days, you just can't win.
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> Phil M1GWZ
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> On 27 Sep 2011, at 02:26, Joseph Bento wrote:
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>> On Sep 26, 2011, at 5:29 PM, bbruhns at erols.com wrote:
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>>> With any luck, a solid state amp won't go triggered-parasitic on your music, in which case it will sound good.  But if it clips...  Wham, square waves, with strong high-order harmonics.  But tubes hit saturation with a little more sonic grace (soggily), curving flat, instead of an instantaneous sharp change in direction - generating less high-order nastiness.  Yeah, it sounds better when it clips that way.
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>> Bob, a song played in regular rotation on one of the radio stations I listen to is Norm Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky."  I don't think you could get that sound from a solid state amp.  I built an amp as a gift for Phil titled "The All American Four."  It uses the common series string tubes - 12AT6 (x2) preamp stages, 50C5 power amp, and 35W4 rectifier.  Included is a 240 / 120 isolation transformer for safety as well as giving the amp 240v capability.  It has a power output of only 3 watts or so, but that 3 watts sounds WAY different than a 3 watt solid state amp.
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>> Using old receiving tubes is fun as well as a relatively inexpensive way to build a nice little guitar amp.
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>> Phil, you'll need to let me know if you ever need replacement 'valves' for that amp.  While the 12AT6 (or 12AV6) is probably available in the UK, the 50C5 and 35W4 are likely scarce.  You guys never built too many series string radios without power transformers.
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>> Joe, N6DGY
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