The VIDEO ALL Guitar Amp Companies DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE!! DIY $200 Guitar Amp On A Budget!!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In this video I make a pretty cool guitar
amp with the help of my wife!!
It's loud, that's for sure!
I really appreciate you watching!!
Thanks!!!!!!!!
#diyguitaramp #budgetamplifier #buildyourownguitaramp
I think I’ve said this before, but my favorite thing about you is that you have an idea, and you execute the idea. You woke up one morning and thought “I’d like a 300w amp today” and you went to bed that night having built a 300w amp. I respect your follow-through so much!
Hi Sean, thanks to Mooer, I've been using my car as an amp, for an year, when out i Nice work!
adding a clean boost pedal as preamp before the power amp will make it more sound a literal guitar amp.
Really awesome. Just needs a handle where the processor is, and a new location for the processor...
Had a messa boogie dc5 50watt combo and never needed to turn it up anywhere near full, clean or dirty. Valves rule.
I'd buy one :)
Making a screen out of an old sequined dress is hilarious and some nifty recycling brother The amp sounds pretty good .
My man
Dude went full dad on this project and it looks great 👍
Right on
NICE JOB! I wonder how long those speakers will last with 300 watts going thru them. do you think they'll last?
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Love that little Hammy, he’s just so cute. Great proof of concept, would love to hear that live…seemed clipped through the video. But nice job man!!
I really hate you guys with wives and garages. My apartment neighbors always flip the f out when I crank it to 11 at 12.
Lol, it's nice...
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I don't want to put your efforts down as its a decent build and might inspire others. I've got some doubts about your speaker and amp choices though. I'm guessing the actual power rating is 75w rms x2, but that's still too loud for home use, rehearsal rooms and most gig environments. Including tweeters I thought was odd in a guitar amp, expect it would make the sound too fizzy? I'm doubtful your scavenged speakers would be up to the job with that output too...
This really made me think about crossovers and if they are really needed. I just remembered back in the day I bought a passive subwoofer to go with my home theatre system and it just needed to be hooked up in series to the front right speaker. All these speaker companies got me fooled over the years thinking that crossovers are mandatory. But there was a time when low mid or high speakers could all be hooked up together as long as the amp could handle the impedance. Thanks for the reminder!
My mates Dad used to make us amps in the 80s from old jukebox speakers.hi fi amps& old brown wood 1940s wardrobes cut down to cab size...Some of the best amps ive ever used...
Just goes to show that you don’t need a tom of fancy equipment to make your own cabinets. I wanna make a 4x8 for my Orange Micro Terror, since Blackstar no longer makes theirs.
Scarred Amps! 😍 Now that's hardcore original Merch! 💪🤘
I still have High Cholesterol. i can't believe you don't have more subscribers, this channel is one of a kind.
5:40-5:55 literally made me spit my drink out 😂
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Love this shit, dude. Redneck ingenuity. People spending a couple hundred, some elbow grease, and LOTS of creativity...giving a superior quality product to multi grand commercial products. Subscribed.
See ya around bro thamks!
Sir you are a master builder. Great job building that amp.
Interesting. Did you parallel all 3 speakers on each channel? If so your impedance might be on the low side. Since your power amp is enormous, it might not be an issue.
I was wondering the same thing
I'm pretty damned impressed! Of course, I'm a nobody, soooooo... ;-)
I've been doing these kinds of "thinking outside the box" projects for years, and they're the funnest kind to do, IMO. I think it has something to do with defying the whole "YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" response that the typical person from any given respective field will automatically say when you tell them what you're gonna do, idk? I have to admit that even I was cringing a bit when I saw the speakers you were using. I was wrong! I think that thing sounds great for what you had on hand. would be cool though if you did another video on this using a true 10" or 12" guitar cab speaker. NICE JOB MY FRIEND, I LOVE IT!
If I were the CEO of fender or Gibson I would hate this video being put on RUclips I would hate it with everything that hate could hate with, why , because this video tells every guitar player that has ever purchased an amplifier in their life that fender and Gibson and Marshall and every other commercial amp producer that has ever made an amp to sell the public has been ripping them off, and charging them too much of an excess to gain profit , it's like when the Chinese made the Les Paul's and copied famous model guitars that have been sold to people in the USA for years ,when China replicated them and sold them for less than $200 a piece , it sent every guitar lover and purchaser the message that for years Gibson and fender have ripped us off royally, and I do think this guy has stumbled upon something that within three years from now he's going to end up being a multi-millionaire because that amplifier sounds boss, I mean really bluesy really rock, it sounds really good and it looks good also, but I think commercially if he will come up with another design that exceeds what the designs on the market are right now and he could probably come up with that new design using AI artificial intelligence. . He reminds me of the unsuspected guy in the crowd that nobody realizes how smart he really is, people would probably judge him as a guy that just feeds horses out in the field with his country Southern accent and I'm from the south I love his accent, but this guy is a hard worker and he's intelligent and it takes those two combinations to become a multi-millionaire it seems, unless you're just given the money or left an inheritance. Yes he has stumbled on something that will probably even promote others to fall in line and try to do their own amplifier and bring it to market but because this guy has all the tools and everything and he has the 3D printers already that he can use to make the knobs the control knobs for amplifiers he's got all the tools to work with and he can hire more people to help him build multiple cabinets if I was him I would take that wisdom and knowledge and understanding that he has been blessed with and I would start producing guitar amplifiers, to think that he was able to build a super super super super good sounding amplifier for so cheap. boy if this should not make all amp purchasers mad nothing else will , to think how ripped off we have been , oh yes if I was the CEO of Gibson or fender I would hate it that he put this video online for other people to see because it tells us all we've been so ripped off over the years. Kevin O'Leary on shark tanks loves guitars you can see a video of him on RUclips visiting a guitar place that has vintage guitars that sell for tens of thousands of dollars a piece and Kevin can play guitar pretty good, Kevin O'Leary that is on shark tank, if this guy needed cash to start his business up all he would have to do is make a model amplifier that he wants to bring to market and go on shark tank and I can assure you that Kevin O'Leary would probably be the one to give him a million or more to share in the profits of producing those guitar amps but if he doesn't want to borrow money he can just start off small and start building them by hand in his own workshop and sell them as he moves along.
Killer build 🎸🎶🤘
Pro tip, big dawg: upload this earlier in the day and you'll stimulate views and algorithms I reckon
My 1st amp was a DOD american metal distortion plugged into a jc pennys 8 track/cassette stereo with 6" speakers in towers.🍻
My first amp was a cheap 90s karaoke machine with a 1/4" mic input that distorted really easily. It actually sounded pretty good. I ended up shredding the speaker because I constantly dimed it.
My first one was plugging straight into a Technics cassette deck on our stereo. I then moved up to using an old Tandberg reel-to-reel tape recorder and an old military speaker. More than 40 years ago…
surprised it sounded so good with those speakers
Me too
nice little build.
Ty sir!
Hey Sean, you and Cathy are amazing! Cheers to you both! I always enjoy watching your videos!
The new Headrush mx5 is killer for $399 it's got all the same tech and modules as the big $1110 pedal board !
It's super loud because of the parallel wiring. You're running 2 ohms per side. That's a lot on the amp. Hope it's rated for a 2 ohm load.
This is really awesome!! I recently found an empty wooden amp shell that looks like a VOX AC30 2x12 build and have been thinking about retrofitting a cheap, solid-state amp into it to fool everyone into thinking it's some boutique, custom-built tube amp haha but I may go this route instead! Subscribed!
new subscriber here. there's some math you can do to put caps on the tweeters and mid speakers to only play the frequency range they are meant for, and make your cab sound better
Show me the way! I'm down!
When you're amp is covered in a woman's dress, then you know you've achieved the ultimate experience when you're on the stage with your band!
When putting screens on wood yo start from short side to short side to stretch material then you put the long sides together
300 watts thru computer speakers???? COME ON MAN????? It does sound pretty freAKIN good tho...lol cool video. Peace
That is hilarious. Obviously not 300 watts, maybe 50, but cute nevertheless. And he certainly should have at least a capacitor on the little mids, or they will blow for sure. (Looks like the tweeters do have a small capacitor on them). Shows creativity, if not experience. Keep experimenting, and good luck. • Note: I would actually consider the little AIYIMA amp module for a project, using a ZOOM G1X FOUR as a pre-amp / processor.
Yes it's only 75 W per side actually without the full power supply, and that's confirmed on a meter, but I just loaned it to my friend and he played a gig with it mic'd and almost wide open for 4 hours, with 15 min breaks and nothing blew up! And he used just his Line 6 Hd500 with it! And it's louder than my Fender front man 212 and my Hot Rod Deluxe, and the speakers are tiny!! I will keep thinking outside of the box, that's guaranteed! Thanks for watching
Bout time I got an notification on your video
I use a Quilter "Interblock" Class D pedal-sized amp to drive two small 1x10" open-back cabs. It has a very "tube-like" front end, so no modeling is required for it to sound very much like my old tube amp (similar to the 5F6 Fender Tweed Bassman circuit) does with same cabs. That's why that "valve" amp been gathering dust for years! My 7.1 audio system is also 100 percent Class D, including two Aiyima A07s for the ambience/surround speakers -- that technology has improved tremendously over the last ten years or so.
I hope the amplifier doesn’t heat up and melt the glue.
Class D isn't the same type of power as class A. Just sayin.
No foolin? So the one named Class D isn't the same as the one named Class A? Is that why they have different names? No way!! Jeez man....
@@scarmyguitar Fender uses class D power on the Tone Master Amps.
@@marcavus1 They use Class D amps to make them smaller and lighter for us old farts that can't carry around a heavy amp anymore.
What does "same type of power" mean? Surely watts are watts?
Man I love that. You are pretty handy. I think you did a great job. I think I would buy that amp. No kidding it sounds pretty good. Pat yourself on the back sir because that is really cool. If I built it it would be a bit fuggly. But yours looks great. Terrific project. Alright I gotta subscribe. Yup gott do it.
Thanks!
🤠 Now put a 20 wat tube amp in there and compare the difference 😁
That would not help improve this amp. The speaker time alignment would have to be corrected first.
Tweeters in a guitar amp?
Yep sounds killer
if you are using an amp modeler / cabinet simulator you have to have those for the extra info the device is putting out . they recommend you use a frfr full range flat response speaker system , which part of this means "tweeter"
Look at amps from the late 1960s , we had high frequency horns in some commercialy available amps back then , and it didn't hurt !!!
Your amp sounds GREAT! Even on RUclips through an iPad!
I love it when people make their own stuff from scratch and reminds me that anything is possible if youre willing to research and DIY👏👏👏👏👏
From across the pond. YOU certainly know what yu r doin... Very good...
What really surprises me is how decent the speakers sound concerning they came out of pretty inexpensive boxes….
If I understand this correctly, you basically made an FR/FR amp. RIght?
Yep
I think that sounds pretty good man! With the built-in drum machine that will make a great practice amp!
that was awesome
Can those little speakers take 300W?? Don't they smoke and die?
I'll be using it on the channel til they do! But no, not yet!
I’m not smart to all of this stuff but 300 watts across 6 speakers, would they be getting more than 50 watts each?
@@jeffleecust I don't know either, but I plugged my computer into it to use some amp sims and...it's sick, very difinitive across the highs, lows, and mids. If you look closely in the video I did put a small uf compasitor on the smallest speaker to take some bite off, I just forgot to mention it. Thanks for watching
I did something similar to this 4 years ago. 20 watts per side, 3 1/2" automotive speakers mounted inside old boom box speaker housings. It made for a killer practice amp.
Nice 👍 little project very cool Sean
Hey bro, how much would you take for her ? Supercool .
Did I miss where you did the connection between the Moore and the preamp? Just curious since this looks like a great little DIY project. Great work!!
I just came out of the headphone Jack into the app
Great video. Make a Pignose next. 🙂
One thumbs up for the amp. Two thumbs up for the pooch!
This is a pretty solid approach for the PA, especially as you can build it to work with any instrument. You can get plenty of tone out of a processor, pedals or a nice preamp.
If you want tube sound, a tube pre on a 100V supply should do it, though it won't be completely the same as the power tube sound.
I don't think those little Chinese amps produce anywhere near 600 watts. Hard to see how it could with such a tiny power supply. 600 watts at 12 volts would draw 50 amps, which would need somewhere around 6 gauge wire for a 7 foot run. Plus the power supply would be massive, not some little box you plug into the wall. And let's not forget that a 600 watt amp is going to require serious cooling, which that amp does not have. I'd say you are getting something closer to 50 watts (25 per side). You can confirm by multiplying the power supply output amperage by 12, that is the max power that amp can produce.
There is also ohm's law to contend with. The peak power available from 12 volts through a 4 ohm speaker, assuming a full bridge amplifier, is 36 watts. (18 watts average power) The only way to go into the 300 watt range is to invert the power to a much higher voltage first, and that amp clearly isn't big enough to have a 600 watt transformer in it.
It is not uncommon for Chinese products to be labeled with "product names" that look like ratings. For example "18 TB external SSD" drives are common on Amazon, but if you take them apart they have a 512 MB micro SD card inside. The "18 TB" is just a name, by Chinese marketing standards. They even spoof Windows to show that it is "18 TB", but if you try and load anywhere near that on it you'll be sorely disappointed.
Thanks for that. I love this amp though
@@scarmyguitar Well, a 50 watt amp with good speakers is still a good amp.
Dont waste your time! I actually bought a few amps for around $200 each and they are amazing solid state amps (I use w/ my tele), and I own over 50 vintage tube guitar amps! One is called a.. SubZero SA100H and the other is a Blackstar Debut 50 and they are beyond amazing! Needless to say I am selling most all of my other amps now but a few tube amps I dearly luv!@@scarmyguitar BUT CHECK THESE AMPS OUT YOU WILL BE AMAZED!
Not forgetting that class D will offer About 90% efficiency but if you can achieve 30 watts RMS per channel that will be loud enough. A 30 watt Valve guitar amp can achieve about 400 watt transient peaks because of the high voltage transformers used .That is why an AC30 delivers the dynamics that a transistor amp can't. Class D is a big help in modeling amps as they deliver a good range for recording.Valve amps require a lot of taming to record from . you'd be surprised how many top records were recorded with a 5 watt valve amp
@@tamsinmccormick I could see that because how much power do you need in studio when you're amp is right in front of the mic? Power is not as important as sound in that situation.
But I wonder if the "guitar amp" is actually going away? Effects technology has reached a very high level. Once you've spent all that time and money getting the effects right, you don't really want the amp doing much of anything besides producing clean sound at the power you need. A $200 Hisense "block rocker" will do that. And run on batteries.
Probably the best selling amp right now is the Fender Mustang II 25 watt. My son has one. It's a great little amp, but the secret is the effects are built in and it's cheap. So it's a great little amp to carry off to band practice at school, but his pedal collection is growing, so increasingly the amp is being used just as a clean speaker. And he has a splitter so the effects output can go straight into the XLR to the soundboard without a mic. This is handy when there is a horn section right behind you.
Mighty fine amp sir! Well done.
I'd like to see somebody use one of those little joyo tube preamps and do this, it would be awesome.
“Now hurry up”. Best part. Lol.
Excuse me for saying this but..,… holy shit!!!! WOW!!! Hot damn that is real bad ass!!! GIGGY TO THE 10000000 degree !! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤘🤘
good job Sean, keeping it real and loud!! Did you see what happened to one of my halfs of melody?? I was thinning the sides and back, the router bit spit out and .2 didn't even slow it down, start again!
That's a nice job. I'm doing it with a lekato headphone amp and a TPA3110 amp board at 15 watts a side. Needs a 12v supply, and I'll stem that off to a buck converter set at 5V to charge the Lekato
I think you've got a little overkill as far as speakers are concerned. If you're not using any type of crossover it's not worth it at all.
You need a full range speaker, and that will do it. Even better is finding an online calculator to tell you the exact dimensions of what the box should be for a flat response. Having said that it sounds fine, but hardly a 'quiet practice amp' lol
You the man! That’s a really cool project
Actually sounds pretty nice. Close the back and make it punch 👊
New subscriber! You are amazing! This is so awesome! I'm a guitarist too, my father was a carpenter, he would totally approve of this! 🎸🎶🤘
Eat your heart out Positive Grid. 🤘🎸
8:53 which riff is that? It slaps! Amazing amp :)
They are very small 'big' speakers! They sound loud - will they take 600 watts?
just get a 3 watt Hagerman and your done
you need to try it with a band. a loud drummer and a loud bassist playing detuned down to at least c heavy sludge/stonner rock. if it works in that enviroment then yeah its a possibility but till thenill stick with a 100 valve head and 4x12. no diss intended btw
I have built a few small tube amps, but this video, the process and your build is great. Sounds great and gets the job done. Thank you for sharing, great work!
I absolutely love tinkering. Years ago I tinkered around and made a Jerry rigged bass amp with a speaker and a rough same amplifier power supply and power strip. Love this! Kudos! Got me inspired 👌
Great Job, Love the Router and 3D printer what's it like with the Bass guitar LOL
I was wondering why I've moved 5 times in 25 years and kept all those old speakers, haha! This is perfect! Thanks Sean!
Mate: mic placement!
Yup
Thats just to sweet, im thinking of building one using the 12au7 tube driver pedal for preamp and a cheapy chinese 100w amp. Great vid brother
(disclaimer to the reader: my opinion, please don't have a heart attack)
loud amps suck
A philosophy for a good life; "use what you have and make some-thing unique". Pioneer spirit for the 21st Century!
Very Cool 🤘🏾
Sounds perfectly fine to me. Plus, no finicky/overpriced tubes to deal with.
Sounds great!
Man that is so cool I love that I bought a spark but had I known I could get one of those LOL I would have bought that instead van great job I love your stuff man
I love this amp brother!
I'm trying to see as of your older videos.
Do what do guys catch you on Sat
Rock on!
Man back innthe late 70's electronics mags? In the classified ads? You could buy stereo circuit boards all kindsa wattages .
Frank Marino's been building his own solid-state amps since the 70s.
Hats off to you sir
love it, good to know how to do this if i muster up the courage to try
You can do it!
I’ve done something like this in recent years, although I’d love to go the modeler route Bluetooth into a power amp…but I have taken a cheap, crappy 3 watt 9v battery powered amp with a single 3 in speaker I found I a resale shop for $2, and had two 4 inch dual-cone center channel speakers from a surround sound system and put them all in a cigar box and converted it to 18v supply (dual 9v compartments)…sounds better but the amp is still sounds like you’re recording a distorted direct signal in a studio….my other project was getting a 1x12 unbranded cabinet I found at a garage sale for $10, removing the speaker and baffle, and converting it to a 4x6 cabinet with some 6” eminence pro sound speakers I also found at a garage sale for like $10 (for all 4 speakers), it sounds pretty damned awesome having my EVH 5150III LBX-S run through it!
Outstanding video ‼️
People don't realize that most you paid for an amp is the craftsmanship and the company name. Not is the fancy tubes inside it. If you know how to do amps then do your own. I make my passive bass electronics and guitar too. Great quality and durability.
what about a handle?
Neat! What's the impedance of each of the speakers and how'd you wired it match the output impedance of the amp sir? Was it all in parallel, series or parallel/series?
He showed it: "I went from the amp to the bass speaker (parallel), then the mid, then the high one."
It's all parallel.
No crossovers "or anything fancy like that."
He DIDN'T match the impedance!
You're looking at it all wrong.
According to his "tutorial," it doesn't even HAVE a power supply! Did you see him put one in? Or talk about it?
So, there's no need to even worry about the impedance matching.
Looked to me they were all 4ohm in parallel. So he is probably going to fry that amp.
Pretty cool idea. I'll bet you could sell them online. The little speakers really kick.
I played my bass guitar connected to a DemonFX Microtubes preamp pedal to a Fosi 600W mini audio amp and connected to my 410 Cab. It was LOUD and held up for the hour I was practicing.
fantastic you're excellent
Legit!!!!! Awesome project, genius. Keep the content coming, big fan here.