Keyboard Amplification
... piano. Try Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon CD to test the bass. Get a CD with some acoustic guitar to listen for the quality of the high end. This is not rocket science. The speaker that so...
Keyboard Amplifier?
...yboard? Answer: With a keyboard what your aiming for is a 'clean' signal path, i.e. DON'T use a guitar amp, and as a rule avoid valve technology. Keyboard amp: Advantages: All in one unit, there...
Keyboard Amp Reviews
...ased on your recommendations, I'm about to buy a Fender 50 watt keyboard amp so I can play acoustic guitar, keyboard, and/or sing... and have a one unit PA system. The amp has an effects loop and bui...
Guitar Amp for Synth?
...uality/priced amp. Somewhere around the $100 mark. Seems like keyboard amps are more expensive than guitar amps. Would guitar amps do a fine job? If so which would you recommend? Is there such thing a...
keyboard amps
Question: Anyone with any input as to what are some good gigging keyboard amps out there? I've been on the shelf for awhile and have no idea what's around. I've got an old Peavey KB300, but have n...
Using a keyboard amp?
Question: I have been playing guitar and bass for a number of years, and I am looking at buying my first REAL amp (my practice amp was 15 watts but roared like it was 40, was good for jamming and ...
GIBSON LES PAUL AMP?
... probably didn't sell very many, they were intended for use with the Les Paul Recording series of guitars, which had low impedance outputs.
Line 6 Amp direct out
Question: I recently purchased a Line 6 Spider 212 amp. The manual says that the headphone jack is also a Direct Out for recording (something they call A.I.R. technology). My question is, Can I ru...
Help me decide on Line 6 amp or Fender/Marshall
...umstances, find a store where you can play both side by side. Make sure it is you playing, not the guitar hero sales weasel (unless you are bringing him/her/it home to play for you too). Take your ...
Help on Electric Guitar Amp?
Question: My son is getting to really love playing electric guitar, at this time I forgot his first amp, but last Saturday him & I when downtown Ottawa to shop for a use amp, of course I was there t...
Portable Guitar Amp .
Question: I need to get a portable, battery powered guitar amp for street use. Can anyone recommend or comment on what's available - Marshall, Pignose etc.? Answer: I have only used the smaller...
Preamp vs. Power Amp Distortion .
Question: I'm in the process of doing some preliminary designs for a guitar tube amp. I'd like to have some comments on preamp versus power amp distortion. Should I design for saturation in the pre...
simple Power Supply design help needed .
Question: I'm building a power supply to run a 12vdc car stereo in my room. The power amp is a 300w ADS Power Plate 300. At 12.5v I need a 24A supply? This seems wrong somehow. Answer: You wil...
Randall amps?
...s of other makes. 2. The jacks are cheap and mounted directly on the circuit board, so use elastic guitar cords only. See note 1. 3. Older models get absolutely no support whatsoever from the Randal...
Randall Amp
Question: Can anyone point me to somewhere that I can find a circuit diag for a Randall Amp Answer: You and me both! What model do you have? I bought a Randall amp and speakers a while ago, and ...
Randall Guitar Amps
Question: let me preface this with: I like tube audio amps I believe tube guitar amps are far superior to solid state guitar amps, and modeling guitar amps (computer on board) are total crap I li...
guitar amp hum
...ouse is crawling with emi. If no hum with everything unplugged, then start by just plugging in the guitar. Did the hum come back? If yes, then make sure that same guitar does NOT hum with a differn...
What's a Single Ended Amp?
Question: We hear a lot of talk from time to time about single ended amps. Can someone explain what that means? (Please don't tell me it's an amp that, once you buy it, you can't get out of it and...
Small Guitar Amp
Question: I've recently built a small guitar practice amp circuit found here: http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/richardo/practiceamp/lm386.gif I've seen generalguitargadgets.com mentioned in ths...
Solid state AMP
...e amp sound. Been done. Doesn't really work very well. The nonlinearities in a severely overloaded guitar amp-speaker system turn out to be quite hard to model. They include not only active device ov...