Tax man calleth and I must answer by selling my prized stray cat 30. One of the first kits ordered from nick with the recommended TDS trannies.
Asking $550 for a quik sale. Will not ship overseas. buyer pays shipping.

really poor quality short clip of my band with me rockin the stray cat and my ac30 in stereo. Kids with $2k amps where jealous of the tone this amp had all night. also the bass player is playing a modded 100w hiwatt clone from ceriatone
 http://gallery.me.com/mancillas#100078

is it just a drop in situation or do you have to mod something?

Very interesting-I too am interested in knowing how to make 6v6's work in this design

id say the jcm 800 clone with a good tubescreamer or tube screamer clone. Randy rhoads used an mxr distortion+ in fron of a jmp superlead which is very similar to a jcm800 with less gain on the jmp. Id say the jcm 800 50 watter is what your looking for.

For playing out or just around the house

the chupacabra 50 would be best for eighties metal. Depends on the metal I guess. Gimme some bands who's tone you admire and Ill let you know

it hasnt blow a fuse while playing yet but yesterday I powered it off and switched it to 15 watts. I turned her back on and started playing for a bit and then the sound slowly faded. Checking the fuse it looked browned as if burnt but did not fully blow. I replaced it and went back to standard full power and no blown fuses though played for 45 mins straight....what gives!!

yes it can. It could honestly do metal if you wanted though it is better suited for rock and jazz

ok cool that defiantly helps thanks wyatt.

is this forum useless?

what do you guys think? i assume it would be simple but IDK. The new badcats have em

got my tranny set from tds and after some tweaking with preamp valves got all 12ax7s now in the premap as opposed to the one 12au7 in v1...holy sh*t! I havent been this inspired playing an amp for awhile and I have played and sold an orange ad140, orange rockerverb, 1978 jmp sl with 6550's and most recently vox ac30cc2 with celestion golds. The vox is sticking around to be run in stereo with the straycat but the stray is holding dominance in the amp field. I dont play super gainey rock so the gain is set super low and it just sings, literally sings on sustained notes. Good job nik

why does noone reply to my posts lol anyways-bad jj tubes from the factory. got new ones problem solved.

So during the first run of the amp it was cooking along pretty nicely for about an hour. I switched it from tube rec to solid state and played the set (about 30 mins) I then powered the amp off and switched it back to tube rec, turned the amp back on and no sound though all logos lit up. The HT fuse had blown. I am going to go get some fuses as I didnt have any on hand but wanted to know your opinion on what could have happened.
The amp is built completely to spec using tds transformers