I am new to this site and fairly new to tube amps. I have no electrical or engineering background and hardly know much about the terms that people use in that field. I do, however, have a curious mechanical nature, a love for music and guitars (been playing for 16 years), and I am extremely desirous to build tube amps.
I just built my first kit (a tweed deluxe) just to get the feel for the process. I am reading a lot of books and about to take a correspondance course in tube amp design and repair to gain more knowledge. I desire to learn to build an authentic sounding Trainwreck and Dumble Overdrive Special. I know there are lots of opinions and very crappy sounding clones out there (I've heard lots of them on Youtube) I have a very precise ear and am very meticulous about my work when I set my mind to something. So I'm not interested in building some piece of crap that looks like it, sounds decent, but isn't authentic.
I want to build the real deal so that from there I can learn to design my own and go forward in innovating and progressing the process (as Ken Fischer stated in interviews I read of his).
Can you guys give me some direction on the most up to date and accurate information on what has been learned about build these 2 amps?
Anything I learn in the process I will share with this forum and am dedicated to the same philosophies I have read from Ken. Those values in business and excellence are so lost in our generation that I long to see them restored. Especially in the world of music (an industry that seems to have long forgotten what true creativity, originality, spontaneity, and the true excitement that caused Rock 'N Roll change the world)
The obvious and overstated question
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Re: The obvious and overstated question
Welcome.jckid649 wrote:Can you guys give me some direction on the most up to date and accurate information on what has been learned about build these 2 amps?
It's all here - no secrets. Look 'round and you'll find it.
Check the schematics, layouts, and the build guides. Several members here offer kits - most use good equivalent components. You can go crazy looking for the same components that, for instance, Ken used in a particular amp, but the bottom line is that any one amp is a result of what Ken had at hand. You can achieve great results with common components - there's not really much magic or mojo to these things.
Enjoy.