Hi Errbody!
Back after high-school I use to take just handfuls of adderall, and taught myself to solder and read schematics,
Now years and years later I am reentering the hobby.
Working on putting together a Class A Single Ended Guitar amp from Dave Hunter's book w/o a kit.
Back after high-school I use to take just handfuls of adderall, and taught myself to solder and read schematics,
Now years and years later I am reentering the hobby.
Working on putting together a Class A Single Ended Guitar amp from Dave Hunter's book w/o a kit.
Welcome! Maybe start a thread in the instruments / amps section to document your SE guitar amp construction experience. I know players who're talking about wanting to do such a build.
I am certainly planning on it. Electronics amazes me since you take these disparate components and turn them into something so much larger than their parts!
I recently helped my friend build a "5e3" Fender clone he purchased from the Canadian kit supplier. He bought the matching Tweed cab and Celestion Greenback for it. Sounds really nice and better than I can do via my own design! Great example of the above quote.
So I dont have the math brain to design bias myself for different tubes. I'v been buying vintage items of FB market place and sticks cool caps here and there.
As I mention above, you'll probably want to start a thread in the "instruments and amps" section of this forum.
Perhaps start with a list of your hardware acquisitions, your goals; "How can I make a SE guitar amp out of this" and with a serious tone, you'll probably get a few ideas from the members here. Bias isnt that hard to set up, depending of course on what you have to work with.
Welcome to the forum! 😀
You'll find lots of helpful folks over in the amplifier forum in "instruments and amps" There are also a lot of interesting threads in valves/vacuum tube forums of a more general (not MI) nature including HV electrical safety and conventions threads.
You'll find lots of helpful folks over in the amplifier forum in "instruments and amps" There are also a lot of interesting threads in valves/vacuum tube forums of a more general (not MI) nature including HV electrical safety and conventions threads.
I have everything I need from a mixture of buying vintage audio equipment on FB marketplace and scrapping it, and ordering online.
What I lack is the capacity for math. Im generally smart if I may, but my brain is not wired for the maths.
What I lack is the capacity for math. Im generally smart if I may, but my brain is not wired for the maths.
There are empirical methods, which is measured observation. Your brain can tell whether a number is bigger/smaller than it was, right? You can tell what "order" the size of a number is; like Volts, MilliVolts, MicroVolts, etc, right? You can go pretty deep with just add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
Since my brain does not follow naturally it would take patience and time, both I lack lol.
Thanks for the words of encouragement though I do appreciate it.
Thanks for the words of encouragement though I do appreciate it.
Ahem, make that microvolts in µV, millivolts in mV, volts in V, kilovolts in kV etc.