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What have you guys built?

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DoctorC:
Truthfully all i know is SS, so i think a might stick with building SS for a while. More comfortable. I'm about to build my first amp... a Ruby  :D

Christian G:
I'm about to start an amp, its gonna be tube though.  After that I'm hoping to build a SS bass amp or acoustic amp or so.

Crystallas:
Preamps is where the money is at for solid state. It would do nothing but compliment any configuration.

joecool85:
Yeah, its true.  Its all about the preamp.  I mean, you have to us a nice IC, or a good discrete circuit for power, but most of them are all the same, the only difference being how many watts you get.  The power supply is extremely important also, but thats mostly a matter of making sure its large enough more than anything.  Preamp gives you all of your tone and thats whats important.  It doesn't matter if your amp is loud enough to knock over a house if it sounds like garbage.

teemuk:
Be careful not to focus on one thing [preamp] too much when you really should see the whole picture. Basically, i feel that the things that have an impact to the tone of a (solid state) amplifier are: a) the voicing of the preamplifier, b) the amount of distortion (and it's spectrum) in the poweramplifier and c) the speaker system. Mess up one of these three parts and you have an amp that sounds crappy no matter how good the rest of the design is.

Teemu K

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