BUILDER PROFILE > TOP HAT AMPS
It all does make a difference, and you
really have to do the R&D and try everything under the sun to figure out what’s
right for yourself—[for example] whether
you like normal primary impedance. Do
you like it lower? Do you like it higher?
People can tell you what that does, but
until you put a lower, medium, and higher
one in the same amp and see what it does,
you never really know for yourself. You
really don’t know until you try all the different kinds of caps, which make a very big
difference, too.
Top Hat’s “Super Fat” Club
Deluxe. Photo courtesy
of Fat Sound Guitars
Sort of like exploring everything you
know on the guitar in order to formulate your own style.
Exactly. You start with that and proceed
accordingly, which leads to another
thing: In a way, the circuit has so little to
do with [the final tone] that you could
give 10 builders the exact same schematic, but if they just choose their own
transformers, capacitors, and change the
filtering up or down, you’ll end up with
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