{"id":44,"date":"2007-01-30T02:06:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T01:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-01-30T02:06:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T01:06:17","slug":"single-ended-5-watt-class-a-guitar-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Single ended 5 watt class A guitar amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year is here, and so is another hobby. This time I am going to build an amplifier for an electric guitar.<\/p>\n<p>First, I have to say that I don&#8217;t play the guitar. However, I do have an interest in how they work. One day I would like to build one. Anyhow, I was in a music shop with my son (who does play very well) looking for a new amp. He does not want to spend much money, but I think that he will never be happy without the quality tone from an expensive valve (tube) amplifier. This prompted a discussion with my brother (who also plays very well) and he pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampmaker.com\">Ampmaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampmaker.com\">Ampmaker<\/a> supplies components and kits to build a valve amplifier. Reading his site, I was quite amazed how simple the electronics are in a valve amp. More reading followed. Notably:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/18watt.com\/\">18 Watt Community Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ax84.com\/\">AX84.com &#8211; The Cooperative Tube Guitar Amp Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duncanamps.com\/\">Duncan&#8217;s Amp Pages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoffmanamps.com\/\">Hoffman Amplifiers, Tube amplifier parts, tube amps, tubes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geofex.com\/\">Guitar Effects<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now after that reading, I probably know just enough to be dangerous. Not to be put off, and after reading some very positive comments, I decided to buy one of the kits from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampmaker.com\">Ampmaker<\/a>. A couple of days later, and I received a package. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/g2public\/main.php?g2_itemId=107\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/g2public\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=109&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\" alt=\"Amp kit contents\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contents were really well packed. I should have got a picture of it, but I was too excited. In a flurry of flying bubble wrap, the contents were revealed and laid out for inspection. I had already printed out the instructions from the website, so I was good to go. Next time I blog, it should be ready to play, unless I forget to head all the warnings about the dangers of high voltage electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year is here, and so is another hobby. This time I am going to build an amplifier for an electric guitar. First, I have to say that I don&#8217;t play the guitar. However, I do have an interest in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuphi.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}