Welcome to the amp section!

[Turbo7MN]

Hey all, I'm glad Freya was willing to go along with this and I look forward to helping you all out with some amp projects sometime soon.

For now I'll post a couple threads about my finished amps and the basic skills/tools needed for a decnt job when I have the time this week. Eventually I'll hopefully get a few projects up that anyone can dive in and try for themselves.

I'll always be around to answer any questions. Whether you don't know the difference between a 6L6 and a EL34, or you want to know what kind of phase splitter to use with a scratch build, I'll do whatever I can to help. If you're curious about something, just ask.

Thanks.

-Darren

[shiggs]

sweet, I like this thread the best!

[emixolydian]

Create a beginners guide to the amplifiers, because I don't know shit!

Maybe links would be easier though. How much would you charge to make a small tube amp?

[valvetronix]

Cool Cool! I saw this forum open but there wernt any posts... So this morning I got on and posted a old email question I got about an amp problem

[Turbo7MN]

emixolydian said:

Create a beginners guide to the amplifiers, because I don't know shit!

Maybe links would be easier though. How much would you charge to make a small tube amp?

A small one, 10 watts or so, would probably run $250 to $300 for the amp head (I don't do combo amps... yet ) depending on how cheap I got a chassis on ebay and what all you want done. If you wanted an exact clone of my CHB (which is a great amp, but may not be what you're looking for) it would probably be closer to $200.

This is why I buy PA amps off ebay. You get an enclosure, transformers, and possibly some good tubes (my last amp came with a Mullard ECC83!) for a ridiculously low price. All the switches, resistors, caps, etc. never usually add up to a whole lot.

[shiggityshwa]

turbo7mn said:

emixolydian said:

Create a beginners guide to the amplifiers, because I don't know shit!

Maybe links would be easier though. How much would you charge to make a small tube amp?

A small one, 10 watts or so, would probably run $250 to $300 for the amp head (I don't do combo amps... yet ) depending on how cheap I got a chassis on ebay and what all you want done. If you wanted an exact clone of my CHB (which is a great amp, but may not be what you're looking for) it would probably be closer to $200.

This is why I buy PA amps off ebay. You get an enclosure, transformers, and possibly some good tubes (my last amp came with a Mullard ECC83!) for a ridiculously low price. All the switches, resistors, caps, etc. never usually add up to a whole lot.

How much would a 100 watt jcm 900 slx clone cost? ;D

[emixolydian]

turbo7mn said:

emixolydian said:

Create a beginners guide to the amplifiers, because I don't know shit!

Maybe links would be easier though. How much would you charge to make a small tube amp?

A small one, 10 watts or so, would probably run $250 to $300 for the amp head (I don't do combo amps... yet ) depending on how cheap I got a chassis on ebay and what all you want done. If you wanted an exact clone of my CHB (which is a great amp, but may not be what you're looking for) it would probably be closer to $200.

This is why I buy PA amps off ebay. You get an enclosure, transformers, and possibly some good tubes (my last amp came with a Mullard ECC83!) for a ridiculously low price. All the switches, resistors, caps, etc. never usually add up to a whole lot.

shit, really, thats a lot! (for me, im poor)

Please educate me, because I know completely nothing. What is an "amp head", whats an "enclosure" whats a "PA amp".

Haha, I don't know anything!

[Turbo7MN]

How much do you have?

I went and checked out the schematic just for the heck of it. That thing is a beast!

That reminds me, how many of you guys know how to read schematics already? Might be worth starting a thread about it if there's too many that don't.

[shiggityshwa]

turbo7mn said:

How much do you have?

I went and checked out the schematic just for the heck of it. That thing is a beast!

That reminds me, how many of you guys know how to read schematics already? Might be worth starting a thread about it if there's too many that don't.

Yeah that would be awesome if you could make a thread about it. I had been planning to start building amps this summer but it went and gone and nothing happened. What is a good amp to start building, I'm talking like 5-10 watts here?

[Turbo7MN]

emixolydian said:

turbo7mn said:

A small one, 10 watts or so, would probably run $250 to $300 for the amp head (I don't do combo amps... yet ) depending on how cheap I got a chassis on ebay and what all you want done. If you wanted an exact clone of my CHB (which is a great amp, but may not be what you're looking for) it would probably be closer to $200.

This is why I buy PA amps off ebay. You get an enclosure, transformers, and possibly some good tubes (my last amp came with a Mullard ECC83!) for a ridiculously low price. All the switches, resistors, caps, etc. never usually add up to a whole lot.

shit, really, thats a lot! (for me, im poor)

Please educate me, because I know completely nothing. What is an "amp head", whats an "enclosure" whats a "PA amp".

Haha, I don't know anything!

Compared to a normal "boutique" handwired amp ($1000+), it's a steal . It's a shame I don't have time to build much anymore.

An amp head is basically an amp without a speaker. It houses all the circuitry of the amp. If you run a head without a speaker plugged in, expensive things inside like your output transformer can burn up.

The enclosure just refers to the case that holds everything.

Back in the 50s/60s almost everything that produced sound had vacuum tubes in it. A PA amp in the normal sense refers to the amplifier that puts out the sound from a mic in an auditorium or some other place, PA amps are everywhere. These too were once made with vacuum tubes. Since they really didn't need to be fancy but they did need to be reliable, most were made with very simple circuits and fairly high quality transformers and enclosures. I'm especially fond of a company called Bogen.

Due to the simplistic circuit, it already should sound decent as a guitar amp, but when you crack one open everything's all nicely laid out for you with terminal strips and such. Once you rip out all the unneccesary old components, you're left with plenty of places to solder things to.

[emixolydian]

turbo7mn said:

emixolydian said:

shit, really, thats a lot! (for me, im poor)

Please educate me, because I know completely nothing. What is an "amp head", whats an "enclosure" whats a "PA amp".

Haha, I don't know anything!

Compared to a normal "boutique" handwired amp ($1000+), it's a steal . It's a shame I don't have time to build much anymore.

An amp head is basically an amp without a speaker. It houses all the circuitry of the amp. If you run a head without a speaker plugged in, expensive things inside like your output transformer can burn up.

The enclosure just refers to the case that holds everything.

Back in the 50s/60s almost everything that produced sound had vacuum tubes in it. A PA amp in the normal sense refers to the amplifier that puts out the sound from a mic in an auditorium or some other place, PA amps are everywhere. These too were once made with vacuum tubes. Since they really didn't need to be fancy but they did need to be reliable, most were made with very simple circuits and fairly high quality transformers and enclosures. I'm especially fond of a company called Bogen.

Due to the simplistic circuit, it already should sound decent as a guitar amp, but when you crack one open everything's all nicely laid out for you with terminal strips and such. Once you rip out all the unneccesary old components, you're left with plenty of places to solder things to.

You should really write a beginners guide so I can actually comprehend what you're saying. I have no knowledge of electronics, except for like basic circuits, and thats nothing, really. The termonology leaves me stumped too.