Moved the HV part of the power supply over a bit to make more room (separation) from the signal level stuff. Added a small plate for the guitar input jack and added a plate for the control pots. Just a "Gain" and "Master Volume" pot for now. Provisions for the tone stack pots when I get that far.
The few G&L I have held felt very different than their Fender brothers. All great workes inspired by Leo Fender. This bass showing his Music Man influence, very cool.
My bassist friend says it plays very well (he said the neck is straight and the action is good). He also said this was a pretty big step up from Fenders back when it was purchased in the 80's. Not sure what to make of that. I do know Leo Fender at some point started Music Man. I know a guy who plays a Music Man bass and I have a Music Man HD One Thirty tube head...
I can say this thing weighs a ton, twice as heavy as my Fender Stratocaater! I'm excited to learn something new. FWIW I haven't played guitar since about 1986 and even back then I was just a garage band hack who knew nothing about music theory, just power bar chords
Last night I proved out my 12AX7 tube preamp circuit using the little 50 watt class-D power amp board and my Fender Stratocaster. Sounded pretty good with the 8" Celestion guitar driver I had just sitting on the bench. Got stupid loud actually.
Next up is too build the tone stack and hear how that can change the sound. Unfortunately I don't have the linear potentiometers and capacitors I need to build that.
Initially my goal for this project was to build this with only parts I already had in my parts bins. Guess that is out the window now LOL...
So if I have to place an order for some components and pay for shipping why not build a tube output section too??? Initially I was thinking a simple single ended 6V6 output. Unfortunately I don't have any SET output transformers and output iron has gotten stupidly expensive lately. I do have an output transformer, the tubes, and most of the parts to build a push-pull EL84 output. Bingo!
My transformer doesn't have UL taps so I need to decide if I will make a screen supply or wire the EL84's as strapped triodes. More to follow.
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Moved the HV part of the power supply over a bit to make more room (separation) from the signal level stuff. Added a small plate for the guitar input jack and added a plate for the control pots. Just a "Gain" and "Master Volume" pot for now. Provisions for the tone stack pots when I get that far.
Looking good! Wish I lived closer. I have some cool old medical test equipment enclosures that would be perfect for a small tube guitar amp.
Look what I got! It's in much better shape than the picture makes it look like (poor lighting):
Just borrowing it from my Church. I have a bass player friend willing to give me lessons.
Nice , thats pretty much a Fender.
The few G&L I have held felt very different than their Fender brothers. All great workes inspired by Leo Fender. This bass showing his Music Man influence, very cool.
Hell yeah bro! That's a heck of a learner bass right there. Hopefully the set-up is decent.
My bassist friend says it plays very well (he said the neck is straight and the action is good). He also said this was a pretty big step up from Fenders back when it was purchased in the 80's. Not sure what to make of that. I do know Leo Fender at some point started Music Man. I know a guy who plays a Music Man bass and I have a Music Man HD One Thirty tube head...
I can say this thing weighs a ton, twice as heavy as my Fender Stratocaater! I'm excited to learn something new. FWIW I haven't played guitar since about 1986 and even back then I was just a garage band hack who knew nothing about music theory, just power bar chords
As with anything, have fun with it. Best case, ya dig it and I'll be sending you one of my bass amp PCB's 😎🤘🏼
Last night I proved out my 12AX7 tube preamp circuit using the little 50 watt class-D power amp board and my Fender Stratocaster. Sounded pretty good with the 8" Celestion guitar driver I had just sitting on the bench. Got stupid loud actually.
Next up is too build the tone stack and hear how that can change the sound. Unfortunately I don't have the linear potentiometers and capacitors I need to build that.
Initially my goal for this project was to build this with only parts I already had in my parts bins. Guess that is out the window now LOL...
So if I have to place an order for some components and pay for shipping why not build a tube output section too??? Initially I was thinking a simple single ended 6V6 output. Unfortunately I don't have any SET output transformers and output iron has gotten stupidly expensive lately. I do have an output transformer, the tubes, and most of the parts to build a push-pull EL84 output. Bingo!
My transformer doesn't have UL taps so I need to decide if I will make a screen supply or wire the EL84's as strapped triodes. More to follow.
I'm very interested to diy a stereo tube amp some day so this is awesome!