Transformers are the most expensive parts of your amp. When you are first starting to build you may be lured into buying the cheapest thing you can find. I know I did.
Everything starts adding up and you want to hurry up and get it going. Patience is a virtue! To really get the tone your [...]
Searching for inspiration from your amp can really get addictive . It can really cost you when your going through the pedal phase where you feel the right combination of pedals is going to get it for you. I went through that and don’t even know how many I gave away because they just weren’t cutting it.
Then, [...]
Having made several guitars, my interest in tone chasing eventually took me to the point that I wanted to craft the second important part of guitar tone. The amplifier. Playing guitar is also playing the amp.
I really wanted a small low volume amp for practice. It also needed to be all tubes and wired point [...]