Sound Garage Tales

Even now as a grown up man I sense some of my childhood excitement when I open a kit box of some kind. So much more boxes containing different types of guitar amp kits, that I can actually put them together and (with some mild luck) have them working!!

But some of that excitement is blown away when I discover that certain guitar amp kit wont fit certain cabinets or that the instructions are written in high-language that only Electrical Engineers understand.

There are certain advantages in purchasing guitar amp kits as opposed to scoring the parts and trying to match them together. One of them is that the kits manufacturer (hopefully) already included everything you need to build it, saving you the pain of ordering the parts from several different parts, paying shipping, re-searching parts numbers, etc., only to discover that you ordered the wrong items, or some of them do not match etc.

The disadvantage is that you are locked to the kit’s seller choice of components. But even here you can take some cautious liberty in using for example a higher quality tube or capacitor, etc. Just make sure you replace the component with a similar voltage or wattage, rating, etc.

There are several different guitar amp kits manufacturers out there with great sounding amp packages, like Gabkits (for cabinets) and Ceriatone (for compatible kits, etc.).

These offer the first time builder an excellent choice for an exciting and successful build.

I will be sharing more tips, resources in the following days about the fascinating subject of guitar amp kits.