Odd-ball amplifier ideas that actually work. All suggestions comments welcome!

[Jag]

That was my first "good" amp when I was a kid. Used all the money I saved working at my Uncles gas station for the summer to buy it. It cost me $650, at the time, and I passed on the '65 Twin that was sitting right beside it for the same bucks. Wish I had done that different!

I had the behemoth 6x10 combo version. I ended up cutting it down to a head and 4x10 cab. Still have the head, waiting for the time to tear it down and see what I can make it into.

Oddly enough, I had a guy bring me the 15" combo version for repair about 5 years ago. Great amps for clean stuff.

[tedmich]

Gibson amps; often "interesting" never "great" (IMHO)

[Austin]

Gibson amps; often "interesting" never "great" (IMHO)

I have a gibson "Thor" bass amp that I like. Though not really loud enough for bass I used to play it at open mic blues jams because it is a combo and has plenty of guts to cut through a mix of other guitar players.

[Austin]

Just thought of one.. Plate driven. I read about it somewhere....


I wanted to make one (maybe a crazy octave pedal effect?) up kinda along the same lines is instead of trying to cancel the noise out with filter caps and common mode canceling or whatever you call it, you actually do all you can to make the power supply noise louder and build an (a tube powered even?) inverter and instead of using a signal generator or oscillater to make 50 or 60 hz you actually use your guitar or preamp to make the ac that powers the inverter that goes into a step up transformer that makes the 400 volts or so that gets rectified that powers another amp made with no power supply filtering and then the hum induced into your own sound would be your own signal...

Do you guys think this could work?

If you used your guitar for the inverter signal, and no caps for filtering, and dc coupled everything could you could make an amplifier with absolutely no capacitors at all maybe even...

[Austin]

Maybe a really beefy car amp hooked to a step up transformer (or an output transformer turned around backwards?) instead of the usual 2 ohm sub-woofer to power a really small se tube amp with no power supply filtering, then with a preamp buffer play the guitar through the car amp and the tube amp at the same time as an octave effect...

[Austin]

Here is an idea for maybe a way to convert a stereo console or something with two identical output transformer, but I don't know how it would sound or if the feedback would reduce the gain to one or what.






From here: Audio amplifier push pull output stage.