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RE: Repurposing an old tube amp, part 1
This is super cool. I'm always amazed when people can do stuff like this without first researching and finding youtube vids and documentation and howtos and all that. Do you just pop it open and are just making it up as you go because you know what you're doing?
Well, I've done a fair amount of guitar amp repair work in the past as part of a business that I used to be part of, and I have a pretty large library of amp schematics to use as reference for what I want to build. I'm pretty familiar with the common circuits in these old amps, it's when you start doing customized circuits that things get a bit more difficult. Building a copy of an older amp such as a Fender or Marshall isn't very difficult, but it gets expensive due to the cost of the transformers, that's one of the reasons that I rebuild these old amps. The expensive parts are already there. :-)