Looking to build a high end high gain amp.

[311splawndude]

So guys, don't mean to derail from Derek's thread but I doubt he'll mind, how does Scott Splawn get away with selling his amps in the $2,000 - $2,300 range. New.

By making most of his own stuff and low cost of living in his area. Most of the California guys are sourcing cabs/headshells and are paying a premium for overhead, labor, etc...

That's a good point I guess. That and I hear he is a one man show these days.

 

[panhead]

Ceriatone has good layouts. I built a plexi and believe me, Im not an amp builder by any means.

 

[rstites]

Thanks! I've been watching Blueglow Electronics's Youtube channel on reading schematics plus going over some I downloaded. Every time I look at them I'm starting to understand more each time but I'm still a long way off of where I would like to be. At least I am enjoying it.

I've recommended this site before for people teaching themselves electronics:

http://www.learnabout-electronics.org/

If you look at it, let me know what you think. It's always a little hard to judge these things from this side!

To your original question, it isn't that hard. Many (most?) multichannel amps are closer to single channel amps with lots of options to switch, so it may be a lot easier conceptually to get comfortable with a single channel amp and look how things stack up from there. About 90% of all high gain amplifiers out there are based on the Marshall 2203/2204 preamp, so if you can learn how to read that schematic you'll be most of the way there for anything else out there.

Boogies are the only real exception I can think of there.