The Amp Garage

In regards to Hammond Organ amps specifically theAO-35, AO-39 and AO-44 types, these would be great converted into small tube power amps that can be plugged into modern all tube guitar pre amps. The benefit here is having modern stereo tube buffered series/parallel effects loops with channel switchi...

thanks beasleybodyshop! I will give it a try!

I am in need of generic templates - stencils for control knob and jack labeling. The process I am undertaking involves different positioning of individual controls for home made amps. I need to have different individual stencils for each control, (volume, mid, trebel, bass, Master Reverb, presence i...

I should write a new song titled "The seven amp fuse from hell". The airborn coffee is worth more than this amp! Tee hee

I forgot to add that R58 and R57 could have been bad before the last power up, I could not see them with the circuit board screwed in place. It seems when the bad solder joint was fixed the interaction of the tube caused the fire works. Could the tube, output tranny and a filter cap all be bad at on...

If I can't figure it out soon I just might find a tall tree to drop on it

Test results for the (weak volume) problem, I re-soldered the power tube sockets and re-powered the amp, I could hear the guitar strings being amplified for about 3 seconds then the PC board started to fry around pin 3 of the V4 (6L6) tube. Pin 3 is directly connected to the brown wire of the out pu...

Thanks guys! I will let you all know what I found out by next tuesday (1-21-2014). Thanks from all of us Phil_S for that awsome transformer test, much appriciated!

My Fender Deluxe Hot Rod developed a blown speaker, a friend not knowing what happened blew a fuse becaues of the blown speaker. He replaced it with a 7 amp fuse which did not blow this time, the tube heaters all lit up when I got the amp back. I replaced the speaker as it had an open circuit, I the...