Friday, February 27, 2009
Spotlight
Played with Nik, a cover of red hot chilli pepper's under the bridge.. damn, i was quite fast there, unnecessarily.. hmmm..
Me and nik again, with our attemp at yuna's Dan sebenarnya.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
My all..
Its 26th february of the year 2009. Two years and 4 months ago, that is 854 days ago, i asked her, Nur Hafizah Umar (or Cheb!) to be mine. A college-mate of mine since foundation year.To me, a relationship is just the same as other things in life. It takes hardwork for it to work well. This is no Hollywood/Korean drama, its real Life. Nothing is perfect. U want something, u gotta work for it. Atleast that's how i look at life. In relationship, 'love' is how much u're willing to do to make the relationship work. Sacrifice or wuteva. I may not be the 'perfect guy' for her. Hell, i don't believe in such thing in life. But i'll do wuteva i can for this to work. Coz i've decided to settle my life with her. Just can't live without her!
Let me tell you bout my gurl here. She may not be the 'perfect gurl' in the world or wuteva ppl would put it. But i love her just the way she is. The thing i love the most bout her is her love and compassion. Based on how i see her love towards her family especially to her two lil' sisters. That's the one that struck me the most. I may be very slow in really understanding her, but i'm not gonna give up even no matter how many times we'll fight bout it. and her smile... ahh.. just soo captivating. One other important thing is, that she can stand me despite of my blurness and ego. She's like my Marge, and i'm Homer! She's still there despite of all my dumb/stupid things i did before.
People say we look alike. "Muke fotostat" as my sis said. Maybe coz our eyes (mata sepet) and our forehead! haha. U decide!
Me, i'm the kinda guy who has 'Goals and Dream' about the future. My 'ultimate future' is to have a succesful job (engineering) that's not repititive with a happy family to go home to. Well, maybe that's what everybody wants. but the point is, i'm confident that i've found the one.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
"'Cause I've found what the world is searching for
Here, right here, my dear
I don't have to look no more
And all my days, I hope and I pray
For somemone just like you to make me feel the way you do
Never never gonna give you up
I'm never ever gonna stop
Stop the way I feel about you
Though I just can't live without you
I'm never ever gonna quit
'Cause quittin' just ain't my shit
Gonna stay right here with you
Gonna do all the things you want me to"
Saturday, February 21, 2009
On a lazy saturday evening/umah hana..
21st Februay 2009, it's 15 past 5 in the evening and i'm writing this blog. waiting the water to be boiled so i can have my evening cup of tea. ahh.. layannn.. Dunno y, but feeling very lazy today. kinda juz woke up from my weekend nap. Slept in front of tv while watching Stevie Ray Vaughan live in El Mocambo on DVD. Damn i wish i could play like him! Waken up by papa coz he was skype-ing with hana and mama from melbourne, OZ.
anyway, story cut short. searched for hana's new rent house at google maps. it's about 1.4km to the Melbourne University. 25 mins by walk they said.
The house is behind that blue car. There's two houses with orange roof there. both are from the same owner, Ron. Hana's is the left one.
Here's from the top..
anyway, story cut short. searched for hana's new rent house at google maps. it's about 1.4km to the Melbourne University. 25 mins by walk they said.
The house is behind that blue car. There's two houses with orange roof there. both are from the same owner, Ron. Hana's is the left one.
Here's from the top..
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Epiphone Valve Junior.... MODDED!
Before..
After...
from left, hi-lo gain switch, gain pot, input, volume pot, master volume pot
So i bought a new amp bout three weeks ago for a price of 1k. A Single Ended Class A Tube amp called Epiphone Valve Junior. It may be just 5 watt, but it's still VERY loud! Anway, when i planned to buy this baby, it was with a great intention of me to mod it myself to get a hold of tube amp cicuitry/technology. I managed to mod my MT-2 and TS9, so why not upgrade my skills to tube amp!
Before anything, in a tube amp circuitry, there are Filter Capacitor that has a very high voltage and without proper safety, the capacitor may discharge itself to YOU with a VERY HIGH VOLTAGE and MAY KILL YOU!
However, in this EVJ, there lies a bleeder resistor where it will bleed out the charge after the amp being turned off. Following some people's advised, its best to unplug the power chord off the back of the head, switch the amp power switch to ON and just leave it be for about 5 minutes or more to let the caps drain..
That being said, sewatt.com was the main forum i used as a guideline for doing the mods. I followed mostly the 'Marshal Silver/Gold' mod, with added gain control and a Master volume. Components are bought from Nik Azam at Ceriatone.
The first mod i did was changing the cathode bypass caps for a better and tighter bass response which is C3, C4 and C5, to 1uf 25v, 1uf 25v and 1000uf 50v respectively. But then, when i switched it on and plug in my guitar... There was NO sound AT ALL!! I tried to be as calm as i can while asking around at sewatt.com and at jamtank.net. Bought a multimeter right away and learned using it to check continuity with the ohmmeter mode coz the damn multimeter doesn't have a 'Beep' feature for continuity checking! The tubes didn't even glow when i turned it on! After bout three days of troubleshooting and listening to advices, i was kinda gave up and decided to send it to a pro, keysorseze from jamtank.net. But then, Cgil from sewatt.com saved me! It was just a simple common problem of EVJ, that is the fuse contact. So i rubbed 'em a bit with a sandpaper, put the fuse back in, plug the power in and switched it on. My face gradually lighten up as i see the filaments of the tube glowing! and when i plugged in my guitar.... Krrrangggg...
Ahhhhh, such a sweet sound...
Then, i proceed with next set of mods. Long story short, these are what i did..
R4= 1ook ohm Carbon Comp
R5 = installed a 500k pot, wired parallel to the stock 220k ohm with the middle lug connected to one foot of R15
R6 = using on-on DPDT to swich it between a wire (jumpered) or a 680k ohm 1 watt (happen to have this around)
R10= 1k 6watt
R15 = 10k 1 watt
c3 = 1uf 25v
c4 = 1uf 25v
c5 = 1000uf 25v
Its been a week since i mod this EVJ. Wanted to give it a week evaluation before i tweak it more. The amp now has a more tighter bass response although too little. It also kinda lack a bit presence i think. I like this master volume pot coz i managed to dial in quite a variety of tone by playing it along with the stock volume control (which is now a preamp volume control). The R6 swicht, which i called high-low gain switch is also a great addition. With R6 jumpered, the gain would be high. This is where i used with my modded MT2 to get crunchy heavy distortion sounds. The low gain (680k), i usually use for clean sounds. Overall, its an upgrade of the stock but still need some tweakings.
Bought some components from jalan pasar to tweak it a little bit more. i'll post about it when its done. And, oh, i'm still using the stock tube which is 12ax7 EHX and Sovtek EL84.
All and all, it's a great learning experience! especially the troubleshooting!
inside!
the schematics..
After...
from left, hi-lo gain switch, gain pot, input, volume pot, master volume pot
So i bought a new amp bout three weeks ago for a price of 1k. A Single Ended Class A Tube amp called Epiphone Valve Junior. It may be just 5 watt, but it's still VERY loud! Anway, when i planned to buy this baby, it was with a great intention of me to mod it myself to get a hold of tube amp cicuitry/technology. I managed to mod my MT-2 and TS9, so why not upgrade my skills to tube amp!
Before anything, in a tube amp circuitry, there are Filter Capacitor that has a very high voltage and without proper safety, the capacitor may discharge itself to YOU with a VERY HIGH VOLTAGE and MAY KILL YOU!
However, in this EVJ, there lies a bleeder resistor where it will bleed out the charge after the amp being turned off. Following some people's advised, its best to unplug the power chord off the back of the head, switch the amp power switch to ON and just leave it be for about 5 minutes or more to let the caps drain..
That being said, sewatt.com was the main forum i used as a guideline for doing the mods. I followed mostly the 'Marshal Silver/Gold' mod, with added gain control and a Master volume. Components are bought from Nik Azam at Ceriatone.
The first mod i did was changing the cathode bypass caps for a better and tighter bass response which is C3, C4 and C5, to 1uf 25v, 1uf 25v and 1000uf 50v respectively. But then, when i switched it on and plug in my guitar... There was NO sound AT ALL!! I tried to be as calm as i can while asking around at sewatt.com and at jamtank.net. Bought a multimeter right away and learned using it to check continuity with the ohmmeter mode coz the damn multimeter doesn't have a 'Beep' feature for continuity checking! The tubes didn't even glow when i turned it on! After bout three days of troubleshooting and listening to advices, i was kinda gave up and decided to send it to a pro, keysorseze from jamtank.net. But then, Cgil from sewatt.com saved me! It was just a simple common problem of EVJ, that is the fuse contact. So i rubbed 'em a bit with a sandpaper, put the fuse back in, plug the power in and switched it on. My face gradually lighten up as i see the filaments of the tube glowing! and when i plugged in my guitar.... Krrrangggg...
Ahhhhh, such a sweet sound...
Then, i proceed with next set of mods. Long story short, these are what i did..
R4= 1ook ohm Carbon Comp
R5 = installed a 500k pot, wired parallel to the stock 220k ohm with the middle lug connected to one foot of R15
R6 = using on-on DPDT to swich it between a wire (jumpered) or a 680k ohm 1 watt (happen to have this around)
R10= 1k 6watt
R15 = 10k 1 watt
c3 = 1uf 25v
c4 = 1uf 25v
c5 = 1000uf 25v
Its been a week since i mod this EVJ. Wanted to give it a week evaluation before i tweak it more. The amp now has a more tighter bass response although too little. It also kinda lack a bit presence i think. I like this master volume pot coz i managed to dial in quite a variety of tone by playing it along with the stock volume control (which is now a preamp volume control). The R6 swicht, which i called high-low gain switch is also a great addition. With R6 jumpered, the gain would be high. This is where i used with my modded MT2 to get crunchy heavy distortion sounds. The low gain (680k), i usually use for clean sounds. Overall, its an upgrade of the stock but still need some tweakings.
Bought some components from jalan pasar to tweak it a little bit more. i'll post about it when its done. And, oh, i'm still using the stock tube which is 12ax7 EHX and Sovtek EL84.
All and all, it's a great learning experience! especially the troubleshooting!
inside!
the schematics..
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