umph Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 A few weeks ago i went on a course that was run by Vyse limited or torres amps. [url="http://www.torresamps.com/training.htm"]http://www.torresamps.com/training.htm[/url] I chose to make the bassman 5f6 but with a dedicated bass channel along with a dedicated guitar one, and make some alterations to the tone stack and so forth. Generally the course taught you the basics on building, modding and maintaining valve amplifiers and was a great learning experience. I forgot to get pictures of it while i was building it so i only have pictures of the finished product. The amplifier sounds great! insanely clean and great really growly as you turn it up towards full. All in all i'd recomend this course if your intrested in this kind of thing although its a bit pricey and i'm already starting to plan an even more perfect head for myself in my head, this could turn out to be a really expensive hobby. Quote
ahpook Posted October 23, 2008 Posted October 23, 2008 [quote name='Merton' post='312950' date='Oct 23 2008, 01:29 PM']Sweeeeet. I wanna do the course now![/quote] plus the one... /calls to girlfren to discuss next year's birthday present/ Quote
Kiwi Posted October 25, 2008 Posted October 25, 2008 I've looked at his site often and wondered about making the Boxer guitar combo. He's only 20mins drive from me and while I have the time I should really be taking advantage of it... ...what was he like to work with? Quote
umph Posted October 28, 2008 Author Posted October 28, 2008 barry was a great guy to work with, very patient and a founten of knowledge. Quote
clauster Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 Must resist the urge to look at the Thunderbass head anymore! Quote
clauster Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 Nope, will-power failure! Must've spent at least two hours going over that site. Quote
clauster Posted October 29, 2008 Posted October 29, 2008 I keep telling myself that the thunderbass is too wide to sit on top of my (eternally) inprogress omni10. Then the voices tell me to finish and sell the omni and build the 4X10 version of the bassman. AAAAAAARRRRGHGGHHHHHHH! More chlorpromazine please nurse! Quote
clauster Posted October 29, 2008 Posted October 29, 2008 Forgot to say - You're amp does look fantastic. Quote
Subthumper Posted November 3, 2008 Posted November 3, 2008 Ah yes the Torres site is good indeed. I enquired a while ago about the thunder bass head and for not too much more they'll do it as a 200 watter. In the meantime though I bought a book instead- Inside tube amps. Well worth a read if your into building or tinkering with amps. Nice job on the bassman by the way. Cheers Just Quote
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