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PREMISE
By developing this amplifier we had few visions in our minds:
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THE AMPLIFIER MUST SOUND GOOD IN A MUSICAL CONTEST AND NOT IN YOUR
BEEDROOM EXCLUSIVELY.
This can be hard to understand to some people, but in every step of our developing
process we recorded it through a professional studio recording system, making sure
that all useless frequencies which can fight with bass guitar, synths or maybe cymbals
in a live/recording environment are gone.!A huge quantity of useless gain and can be
a bad thing and we have taken care of this issue as well.!
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NEW IMPROVED LOOP FX AND TOTAL BYPASS
For first time since 2018 we update our fx loop circuit and we give the chance of entirely
bypass it. What this means? Anyone in the business know loop fx stage change a little
bit the sound of the amp, it’s a written law and you can’t do anything about it. A great
designer can only try to minimalize this tonal change to a point where it’s near to 0.
Bypassing loop fx in The Dirt will completely remove both send and return stage, for a
direct and purer connection between preamp and power amp.
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MANTA RV24 MIL STYLE POTENTIOMETER
Research for tone is endless but we’re enjoying the travel so far. For this episode, we
discovered a new brand of audiophile grade, military style potentiometers which we
believe to be very fine and superior to what we used until today. We’re happy to have
introduced them in this design and we’re looking forward to integrate them in future
designs.
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MIXED BUILDING METHOD
Endless debate on PTP vs PCB. Thirty-five units seems a little number but once you hand
build all of them can be considered a quite high number.
For The Dirt we choose best of both worlds: main circuit is design on PCB, to offer a
virtually infinite life, when we wired every single cable and connection by hands,
putting all our experience in the work.
