Hi,
Simply fit a speaker socket that interrupts the speaker,
and use a much bigger cabinet for loads more volume.
rgds, sreten.
Simply fit a speaker socket that interrupts the speaker,
and use a much bigger cabinet for loads more volume.
rgds, sreten.
Been a while since sheperdben posted. Did the speaker upgrade happen?
There are a couple of things that you could move onto once you have the speaker under control. Not big things on their own, but they do add up. Please let us know where you are with the project, if you need help along the way.
There are a couple of things that you could move onto once you have the speaker under control. Not big things on their own, but they do add up. Please let us know where you are with the project, if you need help along the way.
I always feel a little bit sad that, maybe the new OP gave up, felt overwhelmed, went somewhere else or just felt that it was ''not worth" putting some time and effort getting their feet wet in music electronics. I hope that is not the case. There is an extremely talented pool of members in this forum. People that can guide, help, and with a lot of patience (!) and experience. I think sheperdben that you had the right attitude going into this, to take steps and learn. That is the value of taking on a project like this, and that can be a huge benefit as a musician in many other aspects too.
I would be inclined to build something a bit bigger.
You can buy amplifier modules off ebay. They come with wiring diagrams for amp and power supply.
Its not difficult to build a guitar amp/speaker cabinet.
I built my own 500 watt amplifier in to a PC case.
And built two speaker cabinets to go with it.
I am not suggesting you go as high as 500 watts unless you are going to gig with your guitar. I also use my amp and speakers for a mobile disco.
You can buy amplifier modules off ebay. They come with wiring diagrams for amp and power supply.
Its not difficult to build a guitar amp/speaker cabinet.
I built my own 500 watt amplifier in to a PC case.
And built two speaker cabinets to go with it.
I am not suggesting you go as high as 500 watts unless you are going to gig with your guitar. I also use my amp and speakers for a mobile disco.
FWIW I just checked, Forum statistics are freely available to any member, and our friend shepherdben joined on July 28 and last visited the Forum on July 29, some 2 hours after my post #12 (which was friendly, encouraging him and suggesting a step by step approach) and can't have read any from post #13 on.
Pity, but the thread stays here for others with similar needs 🙂
Pity, but the thread stays here for others with similar needs 🙂
Yes I agree it's a pity. Good advice too.. It is somewhat difficult to move forward on mods without a reference schematics for Brand ''X'' beginner amps, I pulled some off the web that may be possible ones but would need some inside pics to verify.
Maybe better than discussing unverified design, with unknown components, start with what ''we know or think'' could work better? A real guitar speaker, that was excellent advice. IMO, a simple chipamp without too much in the way of speaker response tone-shaping on a proper speaker is a bonus. Once you have the good tone of the speaker, you can build around that.
Maybe better than discussing unverified design, with unknown components, start with what ''we know or think'' could work better? A real guitar speaker, that was excellent advice. IMO, a simple chipamp without too much in the way of speaker response tone-shaping on a proper speaker is a bonus. Once you have the good tone of the speaker, you can build around that.
small amp modifications
I've modded several of those small 10w amps over the years so here's my two cent's worth.
In my experience they're almost always 4ohm speakers, and not very good ones at that, inside rather dull acoustic enclosures making a thin guitar sound.
However, they can sound great in headphones. I have almost exclusively done my recording work with them because of their simplicity. But they do sound terrible if played live.
My first great mod was when I opened one up and discovered it ran off of 12v DC after the transformer so I simply replaced the crap speaker with a car stereo speaker and bolted an old car stereo power amp inside the speaker box and just ran the amp speaker output directly into the car amp (both channels) and out to the speaker.
At the time I was playing very loud rock and punk music and the amp was amazing for that purpose. The horrible built in distortion sounded awesome at high volume and the amp was so crazy it would actually skittle around the floor played at full volume. My friends thought it was terribly funny but extremely loud and I used it like that for some time.
These days I generally take a standard 10w amp and just cut the speaker half off it to make a little 10w amp head and either plug a better quality big speaker cab into it, which sounds great and is perfect for practice at home, or I can run a line out of it buy way of a homemade line out box (10k and 1k resistors) into the input of a much more powerful amp or mixer which works great.
Here's some pics of one of my little amp heads:
I've modded several of those small 10w amps over the years so here's my two cent's worth.
In my experience they're almost always 4ohm speakers, and not very good ones at that, inside rather dull acoustic enclosures making a thin guitar sound.
However, they can sound great in headphones. I have almost exclusively done my recording work with them because of their simplicity. But they do sound terrible if played live.
My first great mod was when I opened one up and discovered it ran off of 12v DC after the transformer so I simply replaced the crap speaker with a car stereo speaker and bolted an old car stereo power amp inside the speaker box and just ran the amp speaker output directly into the car amp (both channels) and out to the speaker.
At the time I was playing very loud rock and punk music and the amp was amazing for that purpose. The horrible built in distortion sounded awesome at high volume and the amp was so crazy it would actually skittle around the floor played at full volume. My friends thought it was terribly funny but extremely loud and I used it like that for some time.
These days I generally take a standard 10w amp and just cut the speaker half off it to make a little 10w amp head and either plug a better quality big speaker cab into it, which sounds great and is perfect for practice at home, or I can run a line out of it buy way of a homemade line out box (10k and 1k resistors) into the input of a much more powerful amp or mixer which works great.
Here's some pics of one of my little amp heads:
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