1000w Amp - thats right 1000w 20 tube head!!

[Jind]

I saw this thread over at the TDPRI.com forums - it's a Telecaster Forum.

Long story short - this guy was fascinated at a very young age with the shape of an 807 tube. His fascination eventually resulted in him building several amps, but he always wanted to build one with 20 tubes - for some reason he thought 20 would look so cool all lit up.

Fast forward a bunch of years and now he has embarked on creating his monster or as he calls it "The Beast".

Here is his site: Champ Electronics

You can read his story here:

Part 1

Part 2

I suppose bedroom volume is out of the question?

 

[Ascendant]

tl;dr articles, not very fascinated by this myself. Is there actually any point in building this monstrosity, or is he just doing it because it was a childhood dream? Not sure how it would sound, just really loud with a lot of headroom? And would it work with a regular 4x12 guitar cabinet?

 

[Jind]

All good questions - while that type of wattage is pretty standard stuff in Bass amps so finding a cab should not be too much of an issue. I think he is just building it to do it - he seems to be in the amp repair business so he probably is just fascinated with the whole design/creation aspect of it.

 

[zer0_c00l]

tl;dr articles, not very fascinated by this myself. Is there actually any point in building this monstrosity, or is he just doing it because it was a childhood dream? Not sure how it would sound, just really loud with a lot of headroom? And would it work with a regular 4x12 guitar cabinet?

No, it will only work with 20 4x12" Guitar cabs =D

 

[Torniojaws]

No, it will only work with 20 4x12" Guitar cabs =D

Goodbye arena rock, hello continental rock

 

[ols]

i suppose somebody had to do something like this at some point haha...

 

[SocialNumb]

Clips!

 

[robfromthedeep]

Fuck lifting that thing up!!!

 

[Jind]

Fuck lifting that thing up!!!

Those transformers do look heavy don't they?

He used this image of the transformer next to his tobacco tin to show it's scale.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Dat dere some headroom, oh boy.

 

[metalfanat1c]

That tobacco tin makes him a considerably more awesome person.


But god damn... One horsepower is something like 774 watts... a 1.3 horsepower guitar amp? Holy fuckballs!

 

[RedDog]

But how will it SOUND!?!?!?!?!?

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

When he fires it up, the sun gets dimmer.

 

[Ola Englund]

yawn... kinda...