1 Watt Tube Beast / Homebuild

Mago

Mago

Austrian Blech Machine
Aug 21, 2009
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Vienna, Austria
My buddy and other guitarplayer in my band is a lot into building audiostuff himself these days, he started with an tubescreamer kit and build this 1 Watt tubeamp after wards.
Yesterday we tried miking this monster (lol) up this is what came out after about 1 hour and some mixing.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/1W_TubeBeast_RockCheck.mp3

the clean channel sounds really nice, distortion hasnt got that much gain, but with the DIY tubescreamer in front it was enough hehe.
also it got loude than I imagined.
heres some pix (excuse the shitty cellphone camera)
Amp1.jpg
Amp2.jpg


chain was ESP Horizon NT II -> DIY TS -> 1Watt Amp -> Randall 4x12 with V30's (but we only used 2 speakers) -> SM57
EQ and Comp afterwards.

I dunno were he ordered the kit for the amp, but it sounded nice for an overall price of about 160€. :rock:
Also his customizing was epic haha
 
wow!!!
it sounds really great :|
where do you have the schematics of that little monster? or layouts or some information about it?!

very nice man!
cgz!
 
Thanks a lot guys! I really appreciate it, it was the first time I mixed/recorded something less "metal".
Also the amp has more of a rock sound than metal, that's why we went for a more rock style clip.
Here's some infos he sent me:

The Kit can be purchased here (german):
http://www.tube-town.net/ttstore/product_info.php/info/p1052_Bausatz-fuer-das-G1-Project-Ver-3.html

The Projects homepage (french) : http://www.projetg5.com/
diagram : http://www.projetg5.com/Projets/G1/V3/G1V3.pdf

- overall costs: ~250$ (170€)
- gain, tone, volume, clean/overdrive, bright switch, scoop switch
- preamp: 1xEF86, 1x12AX7 (stock: 12AU7)
- poweramp: 1x12BH7

+ heres some pics of the interior:
Int2.jpg

Int1.jpg



We mainly did those recordings because there were no soundclips on the homepage I think :lol:
 
Wow, thanks! It's a shame that all the instructions are in French, but I might just have to order this kit. The clips sounds really nice, and if I can get a kickass 1W amp which I can use in my apartment for 150€ and a bit of work it sounds like quite a deal.
 
@ Wolfeman:
Haha, yeah DIY is cool (thinking of the Hellfire), unfortunately I'm not that fit with electronics, fortunately my bandmate is ;)
He's allready thinking about building the "Anvil Preamp Kit" some time...think he just has some respect for the high voltages at the moment^^

@ B36arin: No problem dude!
Yeah, he also bitched about everything beeing in french, but I think it went well with google translator anyway ;)
It's good for that price imo. he uses it in the livingroom now I think, when his GF occupies his room for the pc lol
 
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