The Amp Garage

I have been repairing and restoring Australian amps for 2 years now and love to come across those el36 and 6dq6 sweep tubes in an amp, my favorite ebay finds are the awa stc and phillips pa amps... I pull out the tone and volume controls as they really don't suit a guitar and either place in a fende...

I have been restoring what seems to be a great sounding little amp, apart from the the tremolo which had not been working. I started with replacing the faulty 12ax7 and then on to the coupling caps and drifted and broken resistors related to the tremolo circuit. The tremolo now works except for a ti...

I have added the Tracing to assist any amp repairs or builds.

I have had a look around for details on any Vadis information and found very little, so before I gave this Vadis BR20 amp to my eldest son Oscar, I have taken some photos and drawn a tracing as best that i could see,to assist any one repairing or thinking of building one of these Northern Beaches (B...

I have just 2 more images of the multiple wiring sections of the AWA PA1001 OT, and the tone section.

I have taken some time to photo an amp I have been trying to bring back to life as a guitar amp. I am not an electrical engineer ,I have basic knowledge of AC-DC circuit design and application. I have tried to find some information on OTs with multiple output sections with no luck as the AWA OT was ...