Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Forum and Web site Stuff => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: creekrat on February 21, 2017, 10:03:39 am
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Well let's see. I am married with 2 boys, 15&12, and currently still have a job offshore in the oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico. I have always had a love for music as well as for tinkering with things. I have mixed and mastered in a studio and run front of house for anything from a church to concerts and bands in bars. Just like the rest of you, I have an affinity for the amazing tube tones. A while back I fell in love with a Matchless Lightning and have been reading off and on about tube amp construction for a few years. Problem is that i am a very visual learner so when I read it I am pretty much lost. Now if I have someone showing me, that's a different story. Well my 15 year old and I have gotten the bug and want to try our hand at building a few amps and I figured this would be a good place to join.
Thanks in advance for any help or hand holding...lol
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Welcome to the forum
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Welcome to the forum, there are tons of great youtube videos out there about amp building. I'd recommending looking up uncle doug's video's he goes over a lot of basics in videos in ways that visual people probably would really like. I also have some in my 'Frenchie Films' youtube channel, so you can see how I'm building mine. I also really like forum member Mike Scaggs (mscaggs) videos, in p2pamps channel on youtube. Lots of other great channels that have good building content etc. but those come to mind.
~Phil