Category: DIY Audio

TrainWreck Rockette: 1 Redesigned

The trainwreck rocket is a highly coveted and copied guitar amp, however it, in part, is a copy itself. It is the core of a vox ac30 and where made by Ken Fischer. Here I design my interpretation. Ken started […] 

Dumble Overdrive Special: 2 Headshell

Head, strange word for this but is what it’s called, a head being the amplifier, presumably sitting on the ‘body’ represented by the stacks of speaker cabs. Using a schematic from the ampgarage.com forum as a base I set out […] 

Dumble Overdrive Special: 1 Head & circuit

The Dumble amplifiers are clearly the highest priced guitar amplifiers ever to exist, and with good, or at least understandable, reason. These amplifiers fetch more than 50.000$/€ a piece, a staggering sum. Why this is understandable can be gleaned by […] 

Silence your Guitar Amp – Variable Voltage Regulator

Guitarists often find themselves in love with their amps, playing an electric guitar a lot of the time what’s making up your sound is found far down the chain from your actual strings. And here comes the problem, the best […] 

Easy Naim Hifi poweramp upgrades

Why these mods work is quite simple, even very expensive hifi-gear tend to use cheap sonically bad components where size  is an issue. With some looser considerations there, however, really is room to hook up, for instance, capacitors that better […] 

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