Advice project

[Stefano]

Good evening, I'm new the forum and I would love to start building a tube amp, you could recommend a good project tested, with good explanations? I have a good bagget, I have experience repairing TV, I know the dangers of high voltage. I like to play AC / DC, and metal.
I like these amps too .... if I start to build ... I think it unlikely I'll stop

Stefano

[gingertube]

Stefano,
Since no-one had replied I thought I'd put in my 2 cents worth.

I would advise purchasing Kevin O'Connors TUT3 from London Power.
The TUT ("The Ultimate Tone") series of books currently runs to 6 books (TUT1 to TUT6). TUT3 is the one which covers the "Icons" of Guitar Amps. He presents and discusses the designs and then gives the design for cloning them. and there are projects in there to clone the basic Bassman, Vox, Plexi etc. For ACADACA you need medium amount of gain and the Plexi circuit would probably suit.

http://www.londonpower.com/catalog/prod ... ducts_id=6

He also offers kits for preamps, power amps etc.

I have this book but haven't built any of the projects in it. I have however built what he calls the "Standard" design from TUT5. This is a full "bells and whistles" design with power scaling, 2 channels footswitched, with reverb, effects loop, line out, Triode/Pentode switching, cathode/fixed bias switching etc. While this amp is stunning my conclusion after finishing the build is that it has far more options/features than I will ever use and I would have been just as happy with something much simpler. I used a quad of 6V6 for the power amp.

Cheers,
Ian

[Stefano]

Thaks....


Stefano

[M Fowler]

Well it sounds as if you should go with a Marshall build and I would go with an established kit such as the Metroamps JTM45, Mojotone Marshall kits, Tubestore JTM45 kit, Ceriatone kits, Marsh Kits, etc.

A JCM800 2204 50watt version is a great platform for clean to dirty and well suited not just for AC/DC but anything. Great build.

Mark

[ChrisM]

Stefano,
Since no-one had replied I thought I'd put in my 2 cents worth.

I would advise purchasing Kevin O'Connors TUT3 from London Power.
The TUT ("The Ultimate Tone") series of books currently runs to 6 books (TUT1 to TUT6). TUT3 is the one which covers the "Icons" of Guitar Amps. He presents and discusses the designs and then gives the design for cloning them. and there are projects in there to clone the basic Bassman, Vox, Plexi etc. For ACADACA you need medium amount of gain and the Plexi circuit would probably suit.

http://www.londonpower.com/catalog/prod ... ducts_id=6

He also offers kits for preamps, power amps etc.

I have this book but haven't built any of the projects in it. I have however built what he calls the "Standard" design from TUT5. This is a full "bells and whistles" design with power scaling, 2 channels footswitched, with reverb, effects loop, line out, Triode/Pentode switching, cathode/fixed bias switching etc. While this amp is stunning my conclusion after finishing the build is that it has far more options/features than I will ever use and I would have been just as happy with something much simpler. I used a quad of 6V6 for the power amp.

Cheers,
Ian

I'd be interested in seeing your build and maybe a schematic.

[John_P_WI]

Stefano,
Since no-one had replied I thought I'd put in my 2 cents worth.

I would advise purchasing Kevin O'Connors TUT3 from London Power.
The TUT ("The Ultimate Tone") series of books currently runs to 6 books (TUT1 to TUT6). TUT3 is the one which covers the "Icons" of Guitar Amps. He presents and discusses the designs and then gives the design for cloning them. and there are projects in there to clone the basic Bassman, Vox, Plexi etc. For ACADACA you need medium amount of gain and the Plexi circuit would probably suit.

http://www.londonpower.com/catalog/prod ... ducts_id=6

He also offers kits for preamps, power amps etc.

I have this book but haven't built any of the projects in it. I have however built what he calls the "Standard" design from TUT5. This is a full "bells and whistles" design with power scaling, 2 channels footswitched, with reverb, effects loop, line out, Triode/Pentode switching, cathode/fixed bias switching etc. While this amp is stunning my conclusion after finishing the build is that it has far more options/features than I will ever use and I would have been just as happy with something much simpler. I used a quad of 6V6 for the power amp.

Cheers,
Ian

I'd be interested in seeing your build and maybe a schematic.

Read through this thread:

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.ph ... ht=#186330