i found the old radio, and tore out the guts one night, the soldering of the new components took me about half a day, this was my first build to so i went slow, then half a day of tweaking and biasing. then a few hours to make the controlnob fit snuggly and adding the handle and the external speaker outputs and whatnot i have on the back. So not too long :)
Just a while ago my grandfather told me he can arrange a old radio for me. It would be fun to turn it into amp (I was considering this for 2 years but no old radio was at hand :D).
This is funny, how much people spend for professional amps while they can have good tone by using a bit of imagination.
Here's good exapmple. Very good tone. I would never think it's possible to sound so blue with old radio overdrive (tubes?).
the neighbors might complain about that radio of yours
spentonmediocrity 2 months ago
NASTY!
MorkaGraven 5 months ago
See this ===> youtube.com/watch?v=YHfoON7ukSc
pegasomarcelo 1 year ago
Nice sound man! Did you have to do a lot of re-wiring? I dont know much about it. Can I basically remove where it gets the signal and insert a jack?
spinav 1 year ago
@spinav you could do that... but what he did here was just remove the radio circuitry and switched it for a fender champ circuit.
blackcorvo 9 months ago
mate, that sounds fantastic. is the 5f1 same/similar to a champ?
lukieh 1 year ago
I love your amp. How long does it take to build???
nels7118 2 years ago
@nels7118
i found the old radio, and tore out the guts one night, the soldering of the new components took me about half a day, this was my first build to so i went slow, then half a day of tweaking and biasing. then a few hours to make the controlnob fit snuggly and adding the handle and the external speaker outputs and whatnot i have on the back. So not too long :)
Bearwolfmusic 1 year ago
Just a while ago my grandfather told me he can arrange a old radio for me. It would be fun to turn it into amp (I was considering this for 2 years but no old radio was at hand :D).
This is funny, how much people spend for professional amps while they can have good tone by using a bit of imagination.
Here's good exapmple. Very good tone. I would never think it's possible to sound so blue with old radio overdrive (tubes?).
Max0Inq 2 years ago
@Max0Inq Yes its really pitty how much a amp in a store costs...
ScarTubeAmps 1 month ago
i wanted to do the same with our old radio but it´s full of dirt and it doesnt have a input which i could use as a guitar input
fruhotchiliman 2 years ago