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Build it if you are up for it. The champ is a great circuit, and a good testbed for learning stuff - the circuit is so simple, changing single components makes a noticible difference in the tone - good education effect. You can add/remove bypass or NFB, or put them on switches, add a tone control, change the coupling caps - it's just a great platform, and a great-sounding circuit. My prefence though is for a bigger-that-8" speaker in it - bigger speaker means bigger (not louder) sound; I use a ceramic 12" in mine.
I've got mine more or less in a 5f2 configuration now, with switches for the nfb and bypass on stage 2, and a parallel sockets for using a 12ax7 or 6sl7, or el84 or 6v6, and I'm putting in the trem circuit from a vibrochamp right now - plus playing with different single-knob tone circuits.
steven
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