The Amp Garage

I agree with unklmickey. If you look at the pot at the top of the schem between the pre and power sections (volume pot? I don't know my way around a an amp schematic very well yet) reads "1 meg" whereas everything else is "200M" or "20M" or whatever, in places that subbing 'k' for 'M' would make a l...

'Tis true that the class switching thing is no big deal but I still think it could be a cool amp. Its a boogie, and it's potentially pretty versatile. I still won't have any real opinion til I've heard it.

How easy/worthwhile would it be to tweak an express for more clean headroom?

It's actually switchable between 1 tube single ended at 5 watts and 2 tubes pushpull either 25 or 50 watts. The 5:25 has EL84s and the 5:50 has 6L6s. Both amps have 2 modes (clean and crunch) and two channels in each mode (blues and burn) and the power switching is independent for each channel (thou...

Ben A. Fargo, ND (No, its not like the damn movie) 22 Getting married this summer. 3 Semesters away from a BA in music industry with an emphasis in audio production. Played guitar for a long time but only seriously in the last few years. At school we get jazz crammed down our throats pretty hard, bu...

I have a schematic of the older version. Hit me at bahrens at gmail d0t c0m if you want it.

Ben

arg... I meant parallel.. I typed that at 3 in the morning.. but your answer does help in making sense of it all. Thanks.

I see this all the time in amp circuits. What exactly does it do. I want to know both what purpose it serves sonically and how the components interact with each other and the rest of the circuit electrically.

The book is great. I actually had a copy a while ago but wasn't ready for it at the time. Now I'm at the stage where I'm almost comprehending it. I've got a fantastic book on how tubes work and a radio manual with some really good basic electronics stuff so I'm that much closer. Thanks for the help.

I've been hellbent on building an amp from scratch ever since I heard my first TW clip. I started from having next to no experience with electronics, so I have been reading electronics books, radio manuals, etc. Those are all well and good, and have explained to some extent how individual components...