Greetings from Southern Louisiana

[creekrat]

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

[EL34]

Welcome to the forum

[pompeiisneaks]

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