First Guitar Amp Finished

[Blooze]

Thanks. I’ve built some other tube gear, mostly kit stuff (Bottlehead,Broskie, Hagerman) except for the first HiFi amp I built (1626 Darling), but never a guitar amp. What I’d really like is a blonde tremolux head. I figured this simple circuit would be a good first one and it’s not a Fender or Marshall.

 

[owlexifry]

Wow. For a first amp that is fabulous. And yes, those of us who build amps do get quite fanatical about grounding! Some amps I have been able to get the noise floor so low it's difficult to tell just by listening if the amps is even on or not. And if I can, then amp manufacturers should be able to as well. But no...

and sometimes, your house is situated less than 50m from a monster distribution mains XFR box and you can’t do shit about it
well, it’s either that or something farked in the house, cos when i take my amps to the jam room they’re way quiter..

 

[HamishR]

I have't worked out where it is but sometimes on weekends someone uses a power tool around here which makes, well, power tool noises in our power. Weird.

I live in a 100 yr old house in an old area and it used to be as noisy as hell on our power but these days it's not so bad.

 

[Dan0h]

I’ve been searching for one more tube amp to use the preamp section and pedalize and this right here is the one. Total not on my radar at all. Thank you.

 

[Blooze]

Our house is surrounded my several hundred wind turbines all within a couple square miles. They say they don’t do anything but I never had trouble with noise in any of my amps till we moved here. I even tried with a battery powered amp and it still makes stuff hum.

 

[RetiredUnit1]

Our house is surrounded my several hundred wind turbines all within a couple square miles. They say they don’t do anything but I never had trouble with noise in any of my amps till we moved here. I even tried with a battery powered amp and it still makes stuff hum.

You could try power conditioning. They suppress line noise.

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