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I built an amplifier!
Posted by ted_h on July 12, 2021 at 10:58 pmI know this is Tony’s ACOUSTIC Challenge, but I just finished building a Fender Deluxe Reverb from a kit and I’m totally happy (amped?) that it works! The kit is from Mojo Tone. They built the cabinet as well. Here’s a clip of how it sounds:
Layton_Lange replied 3 years, 7 months ago 8 Members · 12 Replies -
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I was thinking, “did I read that right, he built an amp?? You can build your own amp???”. It sounds AMAZING!!! Hey, Tony doesn’t have anything against amps. He recently did a whole show on must-own pedals. Guitar lovers love all guitars, right? 😁 I don’t know if it’s the amp but your electric sounds drool-worthy. I want it 🙂 What is it? I can’t see from the video.
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Nice. I always day dream about finding an old Princeton or Deluxe Reverb somewhere and rebuilding it…
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I’ve been keeping my eyes out around here, but even the sketchy ones go for a lot of money. That’s what led to building a reproduction from a kit. If you’re handy with woodworking you could save some money (like $200-250) by building your own cabinet. I’ve seen some folks online do tube builds in their old solid state amps, too.
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Sounded really good, great tone and playing too! Very inspiring, I’ve been kicking around the idea of building an amp. Thinking a “Vox” or tweed kit. How was the processing of building an amp?
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It was a bit of a reach for me starting with a Deluxe Reverb — the tremolo and reverb circuitry adds a lot of complexity to the build. I’ve heard that a Tweed can be a great first build. A Champ or a 5E3 Deluxe would be really fun!
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Thanks for the info, sounded like you nailed it, even with the extra complexity. A tweed would be fun and relatively straight forward. Now just need to convince the wife and find the time lol
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Thanks, everyone!
If you ever get bitten by the amp building bug, check out the YouTube channel from “Uncle Doug” – he’s a great teacher and he has a bunch of 20-30 minute videos about how different parts of the amp work. I learned a ton from his stuff!
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