The Amp Garage

I just built a single ended amp for my nephew based on the dearmond R5 using 6005 and the edcor open frame 5K:16 15 watt OPT. $22 for the OPT and it sounds really really good. It's also really loud for 5-6 watts, in fact it may be too loud and I'll just have to keep it for myself. The 6x4 rectifier ...

Has anyone tried putting a variable capacitor from an AM radio in place of their bright switch circuit? I believe they commonly cover 20-365pF. May at least be a way to determine what value caps to put in permanantly for a particular amp.

I'm going to build one of these for recording and just wanted to let everyone know that if you are looking for a good parts donor for one of these amps be on the lookout for a webster wire recorder; 340 volt power tranny and 6sn7 PP OPT. I dumpstered two of these babies a few years ago... All the ir...

I'd like to thank everybody for their thoughtfull responses and sharing you knowledge and experience with me. So, I won't be butchering the hiwatt, I'll pass it on to someone who will keep it a hiwatt. It blew up over 10 years ago when some dope pluged his cheap shorting out bass into it. I'll also ...

Hi- Yes I'm comfortable slingin' solder, I build tube hi-fi gear for a hobby single ended triodes, phono sections, etc (scratch built no kits). Not at all intimidated working with schematics, high voltages, giant capacitors etc. I also forgot to mention I have a hammond L100 that would be happy to d...

Hi everybody, I'm thinking of building a trainwreck style amp and I'm wondering which direction to go. Guitars are a '77 hardtail strat with stock neck and middle and EMG S at bridge, '54 Danelectro stock, 50's White student model lap steel w/ EMG SA. So far I'm leaning heavily toward a Rocket build...