Guitar Amp Cabinets
Question: I was surprised at the lack of plans , advices on DIY guitar cabinets. You see lots stereo speaker DIY plans. One reason could be that you literally slap a guitar speaker into an open box or any old sealed cabinet with no particular critical dimensions to follow. Something I always th ...
- Need suggestions on amp building project
Question:I'm going to build an amp and would be curious about input on where to start. I'm considering something the size of a Deluxe Reverb. I play mainly jazz and blues, but am not impressed with the tone of the reissue DR's. I like the tone of a Twin Reverb, but don't want something that hea ...
tagged: Guitar Amp Building- Electronic amp? Guitar and computer?
Question: I have started playing the guitar again, after some years. I live in an apartment now, where I cannot turn up the volume. Also, I don't have a car and can't move around a heavy amp. So, I was wondering if there are leightweight electronic amps. Or leightweight electronic effects that ...
tagged: Guitar Amp Attenuator- Fishman Pro-Eq Platinum Opinions?
Question: Does anyone out there have any experience with the new Fishman Pro-Eq Platinum pre-amp DI? Did a search on Deja, but the most recent messages are from March 2000 when they were just being introduced, and no one had played through one yet. Interested in opinions from anyone who's been ...
tagged: Fishman Acoustic Amp- Comments: Peavey Delta Blues amp .
Question: Comments anyone ? Heard a Peavey Delta Blues amp and an Epiphone Sheriton II putting out some real nice tones playing light jazz and blues. Any comments on the amp ? The backlog for them here is about 5 weeks. Just curious if anybody else has pro/con comments on the amp. Answer: I, to ...
tagged: Epiphone Blues Custom Amp- anybody knows sites or books for DIY Guitar Amps?
Question: I hope to make a tube amplifier for my guitar. However, I have no information for that. If anybody knows sites or books for DIY Guitar Amplifiers, please let me know that. Answer: ARRL's book on basic electronics is a very good book for basics of electronics. It even has a small secti ...
tagged: Diy Guitar Amp- cheap guitar, good pickups
Question: a friend of mine wants to buy a guitar but he's just buying his first home so he's got $bugger-all to spend. He's into all flavours of metal so he's after crunchy heavy powerchords. Can he just buy a cheap guitar and amp combo then replace the pickups with something decent? Answer: Ab ...
tagged: Cheap Guitar Amp- What is the difference in the amps? Is there a difference?
Question: I find it next to impossible to shop for amps. Most amps I try at Guitar Center (local music chain) sound fine. My own cheap Behringer sounds great. But when I go to jam, turn up the volume and try to compete with the other instruments it really starts to suck. And there is no way to ...
tagged: Cheap Guitar Amps- Tiny car audio amp - any good?
Question: There is a very small (size of a cell phone?) audio amp on Ebay for $20. It's 20W RMS per channel. Looks like it would be a great size for mounting under the dash and wiring to my front speakers. What do you guys think? I know it wouldn't sound as good as a high end amp, but my questi ...
tagged: Car Audio Amp- 2 Clarus amps into one RE cabinet
Question: A question for the technically oriented.... Last night at a rehearsal, we tried to plug two Clarus amps into the same RE cabinet, a stealth 12 ER. The result was unpleasant. It produced an immediate and loud hissing noise reminiscent of RF interference. The cabinet worked fine with ei ...
tagged: Cabinet Amps- Making a guitar amp .
Question: I just got hold of a Celestion (sp? i can't remember) 150W speaker, looks about 15 in diameter, and I was wondering how difficult it would be to make it into a guitar amp. Would it need a tweeter as well? Any other advice? Answer: If you do build your own amp around that speaker, and ...
tagged: Build Your Own Guitar Amp- Want to build a small guitar amp.
Question: I am interested in building a tube amp that I can use for a guitar or a harmonica mic. There are three basic factors that lead me to do this: I have a dinky Marshall amp with reverb, and it makes the Stratocaster sound good, but it just doesn't do much for the harp mic; I like to buil ...
tagged: Build Guitar Amp- beer swilling hooligan continues to build cheap guitar amp .
Question: I've taken a volume pot from the Solid State amp and added it to the tube amp to see if i could generate some more gain. I believe it did some. My tiny little brain says that I could keep wiring volume dials into the tube amp to get more gain from it and thus ditch the solid state. Th ...
tagged: Build A Guitar Amp- Boutique vs production amps .
Question: Anyone who sells handmade amps could be consider boutique, couldn't they? Answer: I believe that within 10 years & perhaps a lot sooner, few players will want any of the ga-ga amps & designs of today (and yesterday) for anything beyond collection. Nor is this whole philosophy & improv ...
tagged: Boutique Guitar Amps- Compare Fender Blues Deluxe to Peavey Classic 50 - 410 .
Question: Have any of you used both? Any comparisons, contrasts, etc? I mean i do know that the Fender uses 2 6L6 power tubes and has 1- 12 speaker while the Peavey uses 4-EL84 power tubes and has 4 10 speakers. The Peavey is said to be 50 watts, but friends tell me that it's not really that po ...
tagged: Blues Custom Amp- Atari Black Widow .
Question: anyone know what a working black widow arcade machine goes for? I know that color vector monitors are expensive. Answer: $500 would be correct based on what? Maybe your location? $250 is a pretty decent price for someone local who has the knowledge to fix it. It still needs monitor wo ...
tagged: Black Widow- Best Keyboard Amplification .
Question: What is the best way to amp a Stereo Keyboard setup. I use two Stereo keyboards with Piano, B3, Rhodes, and Synth patches. I need an all around great sounding setup to get the most out of the stereo patches. The other players in the band say they are having trouble hearing what I play ...
tagged: Best Keyboard Amp- Best guitar amp circutry .
Question: I figured this would be a good place to ask this question since alot of people in here probably work on guitar tube amps. what i was wondering is in your opinion what is the best designed/built guitar tube amp out there that is still being made. Answer: Fender Bassman (the original) i ...
tagged: Best Guitar Amp- Best Guitar Amp for Recording.
Question: When I started doing home recording, I discovered that while a single Marshall amp did not record very well, two Marshall hooked up in series worked quite nicely. I've recorded with Marshalls because those were the amps I had. Since I'm starting to get more into recording, I'm wonderi ...
tagged: Best Guitar Amps- best radio tube guitar amp circuit?
Question: Of those transformerless three-radio-tube 1960s budget junker guitar amps, which one has the best-sounding circuit? Best-sounding overall? Answer: The most of the guitar amps of the market are just crap. As exemple, the most expensive marshal amp is costing less as 100$ for the manufa ...
tagged: Best Guitar Amplifier
Acoustic Guitar Amps (43)
