<story><title>DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017)</title><url>https://audioprimate.blog/2017/06/17/diy-a-roadmap-for-beginners/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kpgraham</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve built a half dozen Fender Bassmans and a few Fender Super amps over the years. I thought the article would be about this kind of amp building, but evidently not many hacker news readers play blues harp through a tube amp.&lt;p&gt;Low tech tube amps are quite easy to build, although they cost a few hundred because the transformers, chassis and tubes can be pricey and the cabs and speakers aren&amp;#x27;t cheap. The results are great, though, and I&amp;#x27;d say go for it if you are thinking about trying.&lt;p&gt;Get everything you need from Tubes and More dot com or eBay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kakwa_</author><text>The nice thing about these old tube amps is that the schematics are freely available (Fender ships a copy of the schematic with their amps). There are also quite simple in term of number of components.&lt;p&gt;However, there are dangerous, with 400&amp;#x2F;500V DC for the tubes. Definitely not something you should try without being extremely cautious and without previous experience.&lt;p&gt;On the topic of music hardware, another fun thing to build is effect pedals, these are much much safer, and permit to gain valuable experience with a soldering iron.&lt;p&gt;There are also a few kits available out there, either for effect pedals and tube amps.&lt;p&gt;For people in Europe, I can recommend &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.musikding.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.musikding.de&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Tube amps: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.musikding.de&amp;#x2F;guitar-amp-kit-tube-amp-kit-valve-guitar-kit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.musikding.de&amp;#x2F;guitar-amp-kit-tube-amp-kit-valve-g...&lt;/a&gt; (I&amp;#x27;ve built the A15 kit in the past, the components are a bit cheap, specially the power transformer, but it sounds quite nice, and makes for a great 15 Watts dual channels amp).&lt;p&gt;* They also sell a lot of pedal kits: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.musikding.de&amp;#x2F;guitar-effect-kits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.musikding.de&amp;#x2F;guitar-effect-kits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They also sell parts (specially those a bit harder to find at a good price like footswitches, sockets, a wide variety of knobs etc).&lt;p&gt;Another shop I can recommend for components: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.banzaimusic.com&amp;#x2F;home.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.banzaimusic.com&amp;#x2F;home.php&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017)</title><url>https://audioprimate.blog/2017/06/17/diy-a-roadmap-for-beginners/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kpgraham</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve built a half dozen Fender Bassmans and a few Fender Super amps over the years. I thought the article would be about this kind of amp building, but evidently not many hacker news readers play blues harp through a tube amp.&lt;p&gt;Low tech tube amps are quite easy to build, although they cost a few hundred because the transformers, chassis and tubes can be pricey and the cabs and speakers aren&amp;#x27;t cheap. The results are great, though, and I&amp;#x27;d say go for it if you are thinking about trying.&lt;p&gt;Get everything you need from Tubes and More dot com or eBay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dejv</author><text>Tube amps are also much more dangerous than 9V battery operated headphone amps. For people that are just starting out those cmoy style projects are awesome. btw there is also 1W guitar amp in style of cmoy.</text></comment>