Nuuska
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Hello
i am finally - very slowly - starting to build me an all-tube amp. it will be a two-channlel combo with one 12-inch speaker - most likely old EV-Wolverine - while I happen to have one - at least for starters.
Amplifier will be a two-part contraption - I have an ancient german amp chassis with x-former - selene rectifier and two 2x50uF capacitors - capable to power a 2x6V6 power amp with some preamp tubes. My friend has an output x-former that suits 2x6V6 - and they will be plenty loud for anything at home. So far I'm leaning towards making a copy of Fender Princeton amp - unless you can sweet-talk me into something nicer.
At this point it might be good to tell, that I play with clean sounds - overdrive is not my alley.
I will leave that power-amp at the bottom of the cabinet and connect it with signal cable. Preamp will be at the top.
Now we get to the more interesting part.
Top preamp will have one input and two channels that can be switched and will be sharing a spring reverb and tremolo - this is easy part. Output will be led to power-amp on bottom - but there will also be individual line outputs for both channels and reverb - for who can ever tell why . . . This is starightforward and easy, too.
Input will be stero-mono switchable - as most of my guitars have separate outputs for pietzo and humbucker - even my Strat has "stereo" output - each pup can be assigned to A-or--B . . .
One channel will be a Fender-channel w Volume-Bass-Mid-Treble-Reverb-Tremolo - easy - plenty of info how-to-do.
The other channel will be a GUILD-channel - I will have it feed Reverb & Tremolo, too - and here is my actual question.
Which GUILD tube amp has most versatile preamp-section ?
Thunderstar looks promising with it's +/- tone controls and that tone-switch ( whatever it does ??? )
And it is very conviniently already built with insert-point betwen pre-amp and power-amp.
NOTE - difference between bass-amp and guitar-amp is mostly at filter frequensies - they are easily shifted - so do not hesitate to propose a bass amp, if it is interesting. Nor a guitar amp w.o. trem or rev - they are easily added.
Idea is to have two channels with basically different voicings - not just two channels with separate tone-controls.
I play mostly fingerstyle w occasional easy strumming - like them jazz-tones, too - no need for distortion or overdrive.
Thank you.
i am finally - very slowly - starting to build me an all-tube amp. it will be a two-channlel combo with one 12-inch speaker - most likely old EV-Wolverine - while I happen to have one - at least for starters.
Amplifier will be a two-part contraption - I have an ancient german amp chassis with x-former - selene rectifier and two 2x50uF capacitors - capable to power a 2x6V6 power amp with some preamp tubes. My friend has an output x-former that suits 2x6V6 - and they will be plenty loud for anything at home. So far I'm leaning towards making a copy of Fender Princeton amp - unless you can sweet-talk me into something nicer.
At this point it might be good to tell, that I play with clean sounds - overdrive is not my alley.
I will leave that power-amp at the bottom of the cabinet and connect it with signal cable. Preamp will be at the top.
Now we get to the more interesting part.
Top preamp will have one input and two channels that can be switched and will be sharing a spring reverb and tremolo - this is easy part. Output will be led to power-amp on bottom - but there will also be individual line outputs for both channels and reverb - for who can ever tell why . . . This is starightforward and easy, too.
Input will be stero-mono switchable - as most of my guitars have separate outputs for pietzo and humbucker - even my Strat has "stereo" output - each pup can be assigned to A-or--B . . .
One channel will be a Fender-channel w Volume-Bass-Mid-Treble-Reverb-Tremolo - easy - plenty of info how-to-do.
The other channel will be a GUILD-channel - I will have it feed Reverb & Tremolo, too - and here is my actual question.
Which GUILD tube amp has most versatile preamp-section ?
Thunderstar looks promising with it's +/- tone controls and that tone-switch ( whatever it does ??? )
And it is very conviniently already built with insert-point betwen pre-amp and power-amp.
NOTE - difference between bass-amp and guitar-amp is mostly at filter frequensies - they are easily shifted - so do not hesitate to propose a bass amp, if it is interesting. Nor a guitar amp w.o. trem or rev - they are easily added.
Idea is to have two channels with basically different voicings - not just two channels with separate tone-controls.
I play mostly fingerstyle w occasional easy strumming - like them jazz-tones, too - no need for distortion or overdrive.
Thank you.
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