Frugal Amps
Guitar Amps
7 Watt HiGain Champ style 7 Watt HiGain Champ style
A great single power tube (EL84) and single preamp tube champ style amp with a lot more balls. Nice clean tone and great bass from an oversized output transformer. Just a tone and volume control
18 watt special design circuit 18 watt special design circuit
This is a prototype of an amp I have been working on. Its 18 watts via 2 el84 power tubes. It has a 5879 preamp tube and 2 12ax7 in the front end. Its got a full tone stack, two gain controls and a master volume. Great clean and OD tones
Vox Matchless Hybrid with Humbuckers Vox Matchless Hybrid with Humbuckers
Here's an amp that is dual channel in design. One channel is a Vox top boost EF86 based circuit and the other is a DC30 Matchless style circuit. The whole amp is controlled with a master volume and a cut control.
Vox Matchless Hybrid with a Strat Vox Matchless Hybrid with a Strat
Here's an amp that is dual channel in design. One channel is a Vox top boost EF86 based circuit and the other is a DC30 Matchless style circuit. The whole amp is controlled with a master volume and a cut control.
Trainwreck replica amp Trainwreck replica amp
Sound clip with single coil and humbucker equipped guitars played clean and dirty. Built as Liverpool replica and capable of clean to massive singing sustain with a VVR master added
Samples of the various amps I build- a sound is worth a thousand words