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Wayne wrote:...or maybe eliminate the hum in your Champ...

any tips??


thinking about it though - 2 amps, 2 earths = earth loop??? might try disconnecting an earth, but that's kind of frowned upon by the safety conscious....

So I've got the line out installed now and it sounds pretty good. It would sound great if it wasn't for the fact that going into another amp naturally amplifies any hum that's present in the first amp. don't know why I didn't think of that before i did it. ah well, if you fix something, you break so...

Check out the schematic for the Fender Bronco bass amp or something like that and go from there with your build. I used to have a small Kalamazoo bass amp that wasn't much bigger if at all. Of course it has two 10 inch speakers. I would run a 15 bass speaker and the volume should increase even with...

billyz wrote:So why not build the champ circuit and run it into a load instead of a speaker. tap off a line level and into a bigger amp to drive the bigger speaker at the volume you need.

Genius!! That's what I'll do.... Thanks!!!

Sorry, I'm not being clear. Most bass amps have a lot of power, because most bassists want a lot of headroom. I don't. I'm comfortably confident that somewhere around 20 - 30 (valve) watts would be adequate for my needs, in terms of volume (currently gigging with 100 watts of solid state power and t...

OK I'm a complete noob so I'm prepared to accept that I'm about to jump in way out of my depth, but here goes: I have a Fender Champ style amp which I built from a Torres kit, and the other day I was tooling about with my P Bass, and getting some very nice sounds out of the Champ. OK, it was clear t...