Yes. I was more asking how I could be pulling more then 1 watt when resistance is low and no tubes are installed.

Kirkoff suggests that the current is all going somewhere. Look for an unusual low impedance path to ground.

JR

Yes, actually it is OK for an Asian person to make fun of themselves.

What a lot of white people miss is that a big factor is relative power (or privilege).  If the comedian is an American white guy making fun of black people, there's the whole ugly history of American slavery, oppression, etc. behind it.  Whether or not the comedian means to invoke the spectre of lynching, it's something that's more likely to be in the background of how a black person perceives it.

It's not the case that people are suddenly being offended by things, they have always been offended.  Just maybe now they're actually feeling like they can speak up about it without fear of brutal retaliation.  Imagine you're in a company meeting and the boss, who makes enough to have a Mercedes, starts making fun of your sh*tty old Honda.  Are you offended?  Almost certainly. Can you say anything back your boss?  Probably not.

I'm not sure you are speaking for the entire Asian community, and not all Asians will think the same way you do.

One of my favorite comedians is Louis CK, there is this famous routine in SNL were he makes fun of child molestors, I recommend you to watch it, the balls this guy has to say what he said on National TV are unbelievable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzh7RtIJKZk, it is the most Un pollitically correct thing I have ever heard, but it is brilliant. Yes, I know, he used to masturbate in front of women and got punished for that by basically making him a pariah. But my point is, that is comedy! being able to make fun of whatever you like, that is also why I love Family Guy, those guys will make fun of everything and everyone, no one is safe, and its hilarious, people need to understand the difference between comedy, free speech, and just plain old hate.

I've said it before, I am Mexican, when I hear a comedian making fun of Mexicans I do not get offended, I laugh, because most of what they are saying is actually true!, when Donald Trump says all mexicans are rapists, that is another thing, he is not being funny, he is lying and he is promoting hate, two very different things, and to put both things in the same category is a mistake, and I belive that is what people are doing right now, the job of a comedian is to make you laugh not to promote hate, they use stereotypes because most of them are based on true facts!

I'll tell you my opinion, and again, this is just my opinion, white people (and I am white btw, but I am Mexican so I don't carry all the baggage you do) are so scared of offending anyone, they feel uncomfortable for everything, even so that when someone else does something they consider inappropriate, I just think they are projecting their own insecurities onto them. For example, cultural appropriation, just because you use a Mexican sombrero you are now accused of "cultural appropriation", what? do you think us Mexicans care if you use a Mexican sombrero? no, its the white SJW who care. I recently read a story on the news that Kim Kardashian is being accused of cultural appropriation because she released her own brand of tequila, she basically came to Mexico, tried several types of tequila and decided to launch her own brand of tequila, apparently its quite expensive, but she is now being accused of cultural appropriation. Man this thing has to stop!, don't know if you know this but the birth control pill was invented by a Mexican scientist here in the 50s, but got commercialized till the 60s by a US scientist, is that cultural appropriation aswell?

Jordan Peterson who is a clinical psychologist and teaches at the Toronto University has said that in the future, universities will be just about STEM fields because the humanities are being so corrupted by the SJW that you can no longer say anything

Again, when did feelings became more important than facts, here in Mexico we call this generation the "Crystal Generation" because they are so sensitive that anything offends them even when you are not offending them.

I am going to tell you a story, this is absolutely true, I can point to you to the videos and the documentation, a woman professor who was teaching a law subject via remote conference right now during the pandemic to some accountant students in a university here in Mexico, said something like "you need to include Bibliographic references in your homework", the students didn't do it and argued that the term "bibliography" was something they didn't understand because they didn't study law which was the thing the teacher was teaching, arguing that "bibliography" was a law term, the teacher had to explain them that "Bibliography" is not a term used in law, its some commmon sense and something you learn in primary school, you can watch the 10 minute video of the students arguing with the teacher, the patience of this teacher is stellar. Well to be short, the students reported the teacher and she got fired, Obviously the video caused outrage in Mexico, how was it possible that these ignorant students didn't know what Bibliography meant, and overall that the teacher was fired, I don't know the end of the story, but it tells you the state of things right now.

"Under the capsule in the black plastic box there are two cheapest possible ceramic disk caps, they should be replaced for higher quality ones. I believe they are 1nf caps."
So i located those 2 capacitors why would they use that ? if they used good components everywhere else.

No it's R26 and R27. They are connected to a cable shield. But a connection to nothing else. So they are not connected. To keep that in mind. That's really unclear what they do. Copy and paste is not possible with ssl stuff.

Yes you are right R26 and R27 are connected to Molex1 Pin1 and Pin5 that are just shields not connected on the Gain Switch end.

I checked the SSL schematics revision notes to see if there was any mention of it but the only thing I found was this:
Rev 0, issue B, 07 SEPT 87
"R26 and R27 were 180R now 649R"

Thanks for hooking me up with the right search term!
Blocking distortion is definitely the sound Im hearing.
Based on my limited reading, 68n is a really large coupling capacitor and Im going to swap that for 47n.
A corner freq of 34hz is fine for guitar, I imagine.

In the current build, I’ve omitted a grid stopper resistor because I was ignorantly treating it like a glass jfet. Could that make a difference? 6.8k?

As it happens, the 2 diodes to ground between gain stages keep the tube in a safe input range and deliver a nice crunch.
Its good enough sounding that Im going to stick this one in an enclosure and build up a second one with the capacitor change.

Thanks for the support!
Im glad to get a little bit of experience with these tubes that I originally bought to play around with the p48 frankentube project. Its nice to be able to use a stable power supply on my first build with these quirky lil things.