My First Amp

[JstaR]

Ok so some of you may have seen the chassis made up which I posted in the show us your gear thread. Well heres my story on my first amp I built

I bought it from ampmaker.com cant remember the price but it was when the exchange rate was low. Its a 5W amp with a single 12AX7 and an EL84. Has Master, Gain, Trebble, Middle, Bass contols. 16 and 8 ohm speaker jacks. Rather simple design which is why I chose it and it has basicly a walk through on how to build it ;P anyways heres the photos.

p.s I only finished the enclosure ect today


Chassis


Turret board soldered up (wanted it nicely done so I took my time to do it)


Underside with wires


Topside with wires


Chassis with Trans installed and pots ect


Back side


The inside of it


Pots Closeup lol


Tube Socket


Nearly everything wired up


Top with tubes installed


First power up (was so nervous lol but it went fine)


Knobs added


Close up styles


Enclosure finished


Showing the uglyness of the inside

Well I didnt have any pictures of the enclosure being made sadly but it worked pretty jazzy.

Now onto another project

[Jenesis]

Amazing stuff man, good work!

[jeremyb]

Thats awesome dude, nice work!!

[tubeswell]

Very tidy. Keep up the good work (and pics). Fun ain't it?

[Vorbis]

Ampmaker is UK based I think....cheapest kits I've found...about $400 NZ for that kit (inc freight and gst)

[JstaR]

Ampmaker is UK based I think....cheapest kits I've found...about $400 NZ for that kit (inc freight and gst)

yeah it was something like that mightve been around $550, i got it ages ago and made the chassis and stuff but never got around to finishing the enclosure

and yes its very fun. well soldering evverything isnt lol but powering up is thats the funnest bit :E

[El Chris]

Very tidy. Keep up the good work (and pics). Fun ain't it?

your avatars fun

[rocklander]

big ups bro.. that's very very cool

[Zaulkin]

Awesome, I'd be so keen to hear what it sounds like!

[JstaR]

Ill try get some ghetto recordings tomorrow for ya. $20 zalman mic ftw lol

[Timoes]

Nice job for sure.

[tubeswell]

Very tidy. Keep up the good work (and pics). Fun ain't it?

your avatars fun

Yeah I thought it was culturally hip - being an authentic native bavarian in her indigenous habitat. Plus the jugs appeal to me.

[GrantB]

dude, seriously cool work....keep posting...

[thehenderson]

Congrats man, could never do that my self!

[JstaR]

Dont be hating my horrible guitar playing ive only been outa bed like 2 hours

Its definatly a clean amp it hates being pushed to max it just sounds pretty mud when it is lol. Was running it through my warfdales in my AC30 cause its all I had. The pedal I used on the last clip is a Boss DS2.