thinking of making amplifiers

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after i leave school, i was considering building amplifiers, but i need some advice, as if i do go into it, theres gonna be alot of strong competition. is it worth it? and what do you guys want from an amp? loads of controls to endlessly shape your tone, or do you want to be able to shape your tone completely with very few controls? any advice on what courses to take and what features i could add that are never seen on an amp before would be greatly appreciated.
 
i had one idea where you have a control that selects how your amp sounds, like marshall like sound, mesa-boogie sound, bogner sound etc, like a rotary control or something.
 
i had one idea where you have a control that selects how your amp sounds, like marshall like sound, mesa-boogie sound, bogner sound etc, like a rotary control or something.
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That would be cool.
 
Most guys that 'make amps' don't learn it in school they usually put in many years fixing, troubleshooting and modding amps...this is where they develop an ear and a following...it is this following that VERIFIES a need for YOUR amp designs etc...

1) Do you have an amp design?
2) Does anyone that plays guitar think it is worth buying?
 
If you want to be successful, try to make your own sound, not model what everyone else is doing. A mesa sounds like a mesa, not a marshall or a bogner and that is why mesa is successful, not because they sound like everyone else's amps.
 
i was thinking of hving just two channels, clean and overdrive, but each could have 6 storage settings for different sounds. the channels could also have that control to sound similar to an amp, like one clean could be set up to sound like an ac 30, and another like a fender, and the overdrive could have a marshall sound on one, and mesa-boogie on the other. bass, middle and treble eq's will be there along with presence and resonance, and different settings can be stored for them in each patch. i was thinking of having two master volumes as well, so one could be set up for solos. the amp could run off 3 el34's and 3 kt66's just for kicks, 5 ecc83's/12ax7's and possibly a rectifier? the amp may be a little extreme for some though, or a little too far out there for a first attempt.
 
If you want to be successful, try to make your own sound, not model what everyone else is doing. A mesa sounds like a mesa, not a marshall or a bogner and that is why mesa is successful, not because they sound like everyone else's amps.
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well not copy the sound, just make it with similar characteristics, like one sound could be called british, or extreme fizz or something. and a byrne channel for like the amps completely unique tone.
 
I would go with a switchable rectifier between solid state and tube like the dual recto.
 
is there anything you want in an amplifier that isnt available in the one you own?
 
Switchable guitar inputs would be cool. I would also do switchable gain controls on the distortion channel, and make it have tons of gain.
 
Wow. You might want to go to ax84.com and learn about this stuff before you start making too many plans. Reminds me of the guy I used to work with that knew nothing about programming and told me he was going to write a better program than photoshop over a weekend.

Pete
 
If you go with the switchable sounds idea, you will have to make a seperate circuit for each one, it will end of taking a a long time, which means it will cost a lot of $, not something most guitarists have. You can make it have all the features in the world, but it will end up making the amp very expensive. I would keep it as simple as you can, so people will be able to afford it.
 
tone is my first priority, but it should be shaped easily as well.
 
a couple more ideas.us first an intensity knob to adjust between tube and s.s rectifying, and an eq section for the power amp.
 
The intensity knob be impossible, it is either one or the other, the rectifier coverts AC current from your wall into DC current. a tube rectifier will have more sag than a SS. A SS will Be tighter. All you would be able to do for that is a toggle between the two.
 
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