Hello people.

I am trying to fix a Fender practice am with a loud hum noise.
the amp works but it has a hum noise (50hz) loud even when the guitar is unplugged.

- Volume, Contour, Reverb doesn't affect the noise.

I had attached the schematic for the amp Fender R.A.D. that is the same without the reverb circuit.

I tried to connect the preamp output to another amp and the noise still there. My first thought the issue is in the power supply I changed all the electrolytic capacitors in the...

Hallo everyone,
I started my amp builder career with ROG Ruby, then Noisy Cricket, then Tube Cricket, then I moved to higher voltage amp IC: TDA 20x0.

I've built a bridge dual supply TDA2050 AMP. Until I supplied with 36V and voltage divider (low current, ±18V) it worked as expected and louder.

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Then I moved to transformer ±18V and 6 elna 10mF filter caps and... probably I cooked my ICs.

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A bit disappointed, I bought 2 modules from...

Just got these from an eBay auction the other day, thought it was pretty funny. They're definitely Russian 6p6s tubes. Would've been a cool light show if I put them in my bass amp and biased like a 6l6gc. The one on the right is the same thing, but labeled realistic brand 6v6.

The schematic for the other bass preamp by Alembic, the F2b, can be found quite easily on the net, but I hadn't earlier seen the schematic for the F1x.
The product blurb mentioned something that to me pointed to integrated filter IC's like the UAF42 (although that is reported to sound not great ), but apparently not :)

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I am trying to convert a Europe-spec 90's Fender Sidekick 15 reverb amp (sorry, not a tube amp) to run on North American power. Looking at the power section of the schematic (see attached), it seems to me that all I need is a new power transformer capable of delivering 21V center tap like this one . Does that sound right?
If that helps, the part list for the sidekick series list the following part numbers, which I was not able to decrypt: Transformer, Power, F2158UC, F-168UC, F-1008UC, SK-25,...

Hello

This is a nice and rare rack mount tube preamp from the early 90's from Jackson. I have traced the power supply and created a schematic. Its just a simple linear supply.
I was thinking about reverse engineering the whole thing. Leave a comment if you want me to trace the entire thing. If I get enough interest Ill do it.

I posted a YouTube video about it on my channel:

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Peace out.
Pete

I'm feeling reassured that the Ammo Can load wasn't responsible for my amp blowing a tube. I stuck another set in there (EL34s this time), rebiased, checked all voltages, etc... Biased at 70% dissipation, I ran a sine wave directly into the phase inverter and got a very nice clean symmetrical since output without any obvious distortions. When pushed up to clipping, it would show a wave typical of the PI clipping out, so I will say on the bench running a clean sine thru the amp is no issue.

I...

So I picked up 7 of these on the Bay for a great price thinking they would be good in tube amp projects. I measured all the resistances for them (see below image) and I'm pretty confident I know what wires are the primary and what are the secondary. The primary is a little strange and worries me because you would think the resistances would be the same on both halves which they aren't. Is there a conventional color coding scheme with the wires? I know black & white for the primary is Line &...

Blue stripe peavey bandit 112...it's a weird amp with weird controls for sure but the issue is on the clean channel, using the left most pot as volume,it can't be turned up last 1. Doing so increased the volume to 1million percent. Insanely loud and unusable. After cleaning all pots and jacks with contact spray, the problem persists and is now present on the distortion channel. Prior to cleaning the post gain on the distortion channel could be turned all the way up and not be super loud now...

Speaker Line Out Isolation Transformer question:

Does anybody know what Type/Spec ‘Isolation Transformer’ Suhr or Bradshaw uses for their Speaker Line Out Boxes? Correct resistances?

Want to attempt to make one.

I see these resistance specs options but don’t know what is needed:
— 600:600
— 10k:10k
— 10k:600 ?

— Xicon, Jenson, Edcor ?

Anybody have any ideas or knowledge on this?

Thanks for any help

Hi guys.

I am a fan of Blackster FLY3.

It is a 3W amp but its too loud for the apartment I live in.

Specifically, I can only turn the volume knob turn to about 1. Its hard to adjust and its stressful for me :(

If I could turn down the max volume I could turn the volume knob as freely as I do when playing in the studio.

What modifications should I make?

In case you are wondering, I have enough skills to DIY pedals. If its not too hard to mod it, I will do it right away.

Please give me...

I'm trying to build a practice amp using an 8 Ohm speaker and a TDA 2822 IC that will run on 9v pedal power.

For a first attempt, I built the bridged example from the datasheet, shown here:

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It works, and it's a bit more volume than the usual LM386 amps I've built (ruby, noisy cricket, etc), but zooks its dirty. Like fuzz dirty. If I crank WAY back on the input volume it cleans up OK, but I'm just wondering if I can do anything to make that sample circuit play nicer...

Hello everyone!
Your requests have been heard! I've added three brand new PCBs to my products list 🙂

SLO-style PCB (400mm x 78mm)
Princeton Reverb PCB (322mm x 63.5mm)
Dumblelator PCB (240mm x 35.5mm)

All boards come with full documentation: layout, schematic, BOM! If you want to check out the documentation without any purchase, I've made it available for FREE on my website for anyone to download (just login and you can view/download everything):
If you have any question, please let me...

I want to build or purchase an affordable EL34 power amp, either 2x rack unit or small head format. Absolute maximum 50W, ideal 10-20W, as it is just for playing and eventually recording at home. Only power amp & phase inverter, no preamp, as i have a gazillion preamps either made or in the making for it, and a valve head already.

Any recommendations on DIY kits or ready-made products that have a good quality-price ratio?

Thanks in advance!

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The date on the schematic isn't really 1955, is it?
Wouldn't that be very early for solid state rectifier?

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The schematic is not complete, what are the stages to the right? And where's the ECL86 pentode stage?
Still the schematic lists the tubes as:
V1 ECC83
V2 ECC83
V3 6AV6
V4 ECL86

Is very much like the little pink amp a restored a few years back. That one was sold off, I just had too many amps around the house, and too little time to play them all. Little Pinkie was very wanted, just because of the color. But it also meant that I had to spend about 275 euro to wrestle it from the hands of some Flemish hipster soccer milf. It needed new tubes, a whole bunch of rewiring, filter caps and a new speaker. Then the guy who bought it haggle down to 350 euro, though I wanted 375....

Hi,

anyone has schematic of this little amp? I own it and am just curious to see what they did.
It's all SMD, so it's a bit of a pain to reverse engineer. Would maybe consider modding the tone stack if it's possible to do without too much SMD work, but it's unlikely.

Tnx,
Bancika

Hi all.
I came across this forum looking for a volume fix for a DOD FX50B and I found it, which was really great after not using that pedal for that particular issue.

So... I began playing the thing through some amps and finally got to my little Fender Frontman 15 which we all know are not quality amps.
That being said, I won't sell it and got to think about modding it up:

1.- Adding a reverb tank. It has the circuit printed, so... could I just solder the missinf components and build a tank...

Not sure if there already is a thread about one of these, but anyway, I thought I would start a thread about my Boss Katana KTN-100 Mk II digital modelling guitar amp, I bought this last year if my memory serves me right, I decided to buy one because a, it's lighter than my Marshall amp so I no longer hurt my back hauling it up and down the stairs near my flat, 2, it has 8 user presettable channels, 3, each of the 8 channels can have up to 5 virtual pedals chained in a row.

The amp also has an...