Hi ALL.
I'm new to this forum. May be I'll ask a stupid question and may be this was disscussed earlier but I didn't find...
So... Does anyone have the schematic of some trainwreck amp modded to 5 watts rms? I understand that the sound would be not so cool as it is in original amps but i want to make the amp for home and I can't go loud cause I have a child...
Thanks
5W is seriously loud for playing at home. It's enough to upset the neighbours during the day, let alone a child sleeping.
You want to be in the sub-1W territory for that kind of level, so you need a very, very low watt Wreck build, or a regular Wreck with an attenuator.
As an example to get my Express down to a level where I can play at night without disturbing anyone sleeping in an adjacent room I have my Faustine Phantom on what I measured at -50dB attenuation (where it actually still sounds good as an aside).
A 5W Express would be 8.5dB quieter than a 35W Express, so you'd still be looking at -41dB of attenuation to get it down to whisper levels.
I have a copy of valco gretch 5150 with 5 watt power and it is not to loud for me and my neigbours And I made 15 watts amp with my custom schematic - t 's really too loud...
May be I asked my question in a wrong way...
May be someone made trainwrech with one output tube like 6v6 or el84 and have schematic that really sounds like it should be.
I think it is possible to make preamp stage from Trainwreck Expree and something ;like fender champ in the output. The only question to me - is to get the right trainwreck sound.
Pop over to AX84.com. There's a project there called "4-4-0", which is a low wattage wreak. Uses 6SN7 for output tube, about 1 to 2 watts... http://www.ax84.com/4-4-0.html
If you go the tag trainwreck files - express there is a amp called the "derailment" and is a express preamp with a el84 pa. You could use other tubes 12bz7 for on the cheap. A Jones design and might not be too hard to tame. 5 loud watts.
Sorry on the bad info on the last post but here it is Trainwreck files - Stickey - Schematics Layouts - Omar post - Derailment 2 tube SE wreck. I really like that 20watt SE schematic above I bet it has some juicey harmonics. Anyone build one?
strangerng wrote:I have a copy of valco gretch 5150 with 5 watt power and it is not to loud for me and my neigbours And I made 15 watts amp with my custom schematic - t 's really too loud...
There's less than 5dB of difference between a 5W amp and a 15W amp.
If you can manage the 5W amp at home you might as well build a proper Express and an Airbrake or something to knock off the 8dB that will bring it down to 5W.
At least that way it will still feel like the Express.
And I made 15 watts amp with my custom schematic - t 's really too loud... 