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Two-channel 15-watt guitar full lamp

painlust 
Red guitar amplifier with Painlust logo and control panel on the front.

Today I would like to present the old structure in a new version. In 2012 I built a hi-gain based on a Fender preamp and a modified Mesa DR (Hellstone?), Which I called Angels? Massacrator. It was built so that 6N2P and ECC83 lamps can be used at any position. Each base has a glow switch. Two EL84 / 6P14P can work at the end, but also Polish TV PL841 thanks to the glow switch and the G2 grid. The design turned out to be unsuccessful, although some video from YT tests is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UMl-x9ajFc. What went wrong? Hard to say. The amplifier was getting excited, it could not be turned on full. He could even receive local radio from time to time. I couldn't deal with the problem and recently I took the preamplifier apart. He did it for about six months. My friend from Defil Repairman recently asked me if I had any 10-25W two-channel amplifier in stock. I didn't, but I remembered that I can actually have. Maybe not immediately, but rather quickly, because it is enough to add preamplifiers to this project. It stood on the classic, i.e. a two-mode Fender with a three-position equalizer and a JCM800. I got down to work and the effect can be seen in the pictures below. In addition to the preamps, an inverter was built from scratch and the power supply was slightly rebuilt.

Homemade guitar amplifier with a red panel and switches.
Interior of a tube amplifier construction with visible tube sockets and a circuit board.
Electronic circuit on a printed circuit board with various components.
Inside view of an amplifier showing potentiometers and capacitors.
Close-up of electronic components in an amplifier.
Close-up of internal wiring and components of a tube amplifier.
Tube amplifier construction with components on a board.
The image shows a circuit board with several resistors attached to it.
Interior of a tube amplifier with visible electronic components and wiring.
Inside of a guitar amplifier showing wires and electronic components.
Tube amplifier with three pairs of tubes on a red chassis.
Red guitar amplifier on a desk.
Red guitar amplifier on a workshop table.

Some videos from testing the version with the new preamp are also on YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS6Og1KZvzc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3eduR0M2o4&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXlvKzbtdM

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Comments

Krzysztof Kamienski 15 Jun 2021 18:00

Very nicely. Beautiful old school mounting on boards with solder pads. The only question is, why didn't you place the output tubes closer to the loudspeaker transformer? Does not wake up after long... [Read more]

painlust 15 Jun 2021 19:18

The rule is that the power tubes should be far from the preamplifier input tube and I stick to this principle. No problem with long cables. Nothing wakes up. And the universal board, because the switching... [Read more]

Olkus 16 Jun 2021 21:18

Nice amplifier, plus the possibility of using TV lamps. Greetings, AND. [Read more]

painlust 24 Jun 2021 23:29

The owner posted a video of the tests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8232HelmM The recording is just what it mentions, because it doesn't have a decent microphone. [Read more]