The Amp Garage

Have had the same conversation with them. Best they will do is tell you who didn’t make them.

If I put it on a switch I may notice it but hardwiring it didn’t make me think differently about the amp. I’ve had more issues without grid stoppers there so I usually go with around 1k in most things with any appreciable gain but my ‘Pool has the 820. Also has the Pacifics like the latter Wrecks so...

The Dan Boul clip with Express Ingrid sounds badass with the added .0022 but I didn’t like it when I added it to some builds years ago. As a LP guy pretty much exclusively I tend to prefer things a bit leaner much of the time and in that spot it doesn’t take much more to start to be the detriment to...

I've been reading some things about using a 68k instead of 150k. I'm doing this. But there's also references to a 2n2 cap and possibly removing it? Can anyone shed information on this one? I’d go with 68k/.0022uf. Mine’s a little different with tube rectifier, choke and 6SL7 for V2 but those values...

Thinking about buying one of those Modulus shazeez for my ‘Pool. Currently have the amp built in one of the Watts Tube Audio boxes. I’m guessing the iron you’ve got has a field unlike that of the typical style Pacifics and it has made the typical layout unusable. Always lots of white noise in these ...

I don’t buy the JJ 6V6s anymore, even Apex matched which is standard from CE. Sucks about the price difference against all others but too many have shown up very microphonic and CE won’t take returns based on that since JJ doesn’t consider that a defect. Just had a heater to grid short in one that’s...

Workmanship and components look like it could be a Krinard. Was just inside a ‘73 Deluxe Reverb that he worked over. Something that never should’ve been released into the wild. At least those appear to be soldered connections. FWIW: I would be surprised if it was a Krinard build, it's a bit too nea...

Yeah, nevermind.





I can only imagine since I missed it that the OP was like watching my first build’s tube rectifier melt down in front of me..

Workmanship and components look like it could be a Krinard. Was just inside a ‘73 Deluxe Reverb that he worked over. Something that never should’ve been released into the wild. At least those appear to be soldered connections.

You sir, are a badass.

Great looking build, board, cab, chassis and all! Would love to hear a clip!

Can’t find much of anything about these on the Google. Reverb had one. Never seen or heard. Labeled “Bass Amp” but like most comparable electric suitcases of the time is shite for bass and sounds very nice dimed with a Les Paul. Rectifier tube was frosted so I pilfered the one from my AC15 build and...

Those are some nice bells and whistles. Nice build too. I imagine they work particularly well with the Express circuit. I’ve been considering options for a customer’s request for serious attenuation of the EF86 AC15 circuit and have been considering power scaling. He wants to retain the clarity and ...

If you like those you should check out Pearce amps from the 1980s. They are a bit more 80's looking but the Pearce G1r is really good sounding. I got in touch with Dan a year or so ago about a personal project related to the G1. He's a really nice guy. I read about those as well. They seem to be th...

Interesting story behind those amps, as set out here: https://aionfx.com/project/l5-preamp/ Great article. I didn’t know they came about that early and were so short lived. The L7 that walked in seemed indicative of a well made amp but this L5 is proof that they were precision engineered. The main ...

Hello all! I hope you bunch of solder sniffers are faring well in our (nearly) post Covidian world. I miss this place. Just got myself a LAB L5 that came into the shop DOA and offered to buy it after doing some preliminary work to get it to power on. No sound and $200 later I’m working to get it bac...