EPISODE 9: Big Q&A (Part 1) - SHORT CIRCUIT

you didn't hear the intro Let me give you a little intro just because you probably missed it all right that's enough of that intro all right all right all right yeah it's been like three weeks since we did a short circuit it's been very busy we had the hard drive release I've had a bunch of personal busyness with some travel and um here we are so um I'm excited to be back with you and it's a little Bittersweet um because I love this selector thing I've actually learned some really cool stuff myself I dive fully into what I teach um I actually love teaching because I love learning um and when I commit to do something like this I take it incredibly seriously and um I always know that I'm going to go in to teach something you know I I know a lot about this but man I've I've Dove deep just to give you an example this is like I've been going through hundreds of various vintage transistors I've been experimenting I've been pulling out like Nos dodes and playing around with stuff uh that I've never experimented with just because I want the final Electra episode to uh you know I'm going to design this Electra that that I've designed as I've been teaching you and give it to you you know I'm going to give you that schematic so I've had a blast and um this is a Q&A I'm going to go back through there's a couple of the lpb1 questions in this because the lpb1 and the Electra it's essentially the same topology and uh what we're really learning here is I'm being sneaky and I'm just teaching you how to use transistors I'm teaching you how they work and I'm going past that and I'm teaching you how to D sort them in various ways and how to find Nuance in it and um find the kind of sound you want out of these simple circuits so we have this Q&A and then we're going to do germanium Electra I'm going to dive hard into my opinions on the best ways to make a geranium Electra sound good and then the final Electra episode will be the ultimate Electra this is going to be the one just like I did with the lpb1 if you've been tracking along ...