[Barry Davies]

Another Trinity Tramp build here. This was my first build and I really enjoyed building both the electronics and cabinet portions. Can't wait to start another one!

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[Todd MacCulloch]

Here is an amp that I just built for the salon rockstar (that's me!).

All tube, 1W, point-to-point, and seriously rockin'. A perfect match to my H&K 1x10 cab.

what plans did you follow? that looks like a great build

 

[YellowBrick]

what plans did you follow? that looks like a great build

Sorry, very late reply! Thanks for the kind words. I followed the Firefly schematics, layout is my own.

This amp is soon for sale btw

 

[Brunman]

This is the amp that I started building a couple of weeks ago ,the first night i had populated the board with the components.

Then last week i found some time to get the board and some of the chassis build ,I soldered all the components that I could and followed the diagram diligently.

(can anyone see my wiring mistake in this one?)

Continued (after fixing it) last night until completion .

And then the start up,(tense moments building up to--then wah wah waaaah) not a winning victory for my first time building one of these. Im having some noise issues that I will open in another thread. But all and all I have been totally enjoying the experience of creating my first hand wired amp. My plan is to get in the shop next week, build the cabinet and get it all put together.
Thanks for all the help on this site, it has given me the confidence to make it through my first one.



UPDATE
After a little research on this site I found the issue with the high pitched squeal , I switched the OT leads and Bingo we have a winner. The amp sounds great, really nice tone and just enough crunch. I am looking forward to the next one and will have to make it a bit more challenging.
Maybe a Bassman or something with reverb, we'll have to see.

 

[Brunman]

Some might like this I needed to take the amp I just built to a practice gig and I put it in this case as a temp setup , Im kinda digging it LOL

I'm going to build the cabinet when I get some time but it kinda works for now. What do you think?

 

[OddioHead]

Hey Guys. New to the forum. The story is that the customer brought it to me to find an intermittent audio fading issue. He had brought it to another shop where he lived locally and the tech told him not to use the standby switch as the "standby circuit" was causing the issue. The issue was a quick find and was just a solder joint on one of the preamp tube filament wires. Long story short he got me to rip out the PCB and hand wire the amp. So here it is. All of the caps are NOS and test no leakage on my Sencore LC103.

 

[keithb7]

Holy s h i i t e that’s some squeaky clean work there @OddioHead!

What circuit is that?

 

[stormbringer]

Here's an amp that is extra special to me. It was the very first Caldera I designed and built a few years ago. I recently pulled out all the original prototype circuitry and replaced it with my latest circuit (on a newly designed PCB). This one is 50 watts, has a low-/high-gain mode switch, a 3-position bright/boost switch, Cali Clipper, Fat, Punch, rear-panel bias jacks and pots, and room for an effects loop. It's a little messy inside the chassis due to the retrofit, but it sounds KILLER.

 

[Dave737]

Here ia a 1957 Rockola Jukebox power amp I converted to a single channel Fender circuit. Its complete now and in a head cab.

 

[High/Deaf]

It's giving birth to a Boss pedal. Now that's a neat trick!

 

[Brunman]

Well here goes my second build ,I thought I would start with the cabinet this time.

First time trying Tolex and for the most part went together fairly well.

The speaker grill cloth was a bit of a challenge.

Got it done in a couple days now on to the 5Y3 circuit.

 

[Brunman]

Circuit board layout

Then on to wiring and components

Fired it up with out any issues , sure sounds amazing.

The clones and my 66 Gib

 

[vokey design]

I believe he's in Kingston (maybe Belleville).

I PM'd you with his E-mail address.

can you send it my way too please

 

[Milkman]

can you send it my way too please

Sorry man, I just saw this. I assume you no longer need the contact info, but if you do please let me know.

 

[vokey design]

Sorry man, I just saw this. I assume you no longer need the contact info, but if you do please let me know.

You PM’d me his contact the next day and he made me this kick ass head shell

Thanks

 

[Milkman]

You PM’d me his contact the next day and he made me this kick ass head shell

Thanks
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Awesome, well better to be responsive and forgetful than have a good memory and ignore requests from your peers I guess.

Having just played my Tweed deluxe clone last night I'm now considering another kit.

I may do an 18 watt Marshall or maybe a Dumble clone.

That Matchless you built looks amazing.

 

[vokey design]

That Matchless you built looks amazing.

It is amazing but I did not build anything lol. Matchless build this one

 

[sambonee]

Milk if
You do the marshall I suggest you consider the trem circuit. There aren’t enough of them around. If you like trem of course

 

[Milkman]

Milk if
You do the marshall I suggest you consider the trem circuit. There aren’t enough of them around. If you like trem of course

It's not an effect I use much, but that might be different if I had an amp equipped with it.

I like a tiny bit of reverb, some delay, a few modulation effects like rotary, chorus, flanger.

 

[sambonee]

I’ve been hooked on trem ever since I had the brown 1962 fender super. Just a thought.