"Solid State Tube Sounding Preamp" For Harp?

[MrTerryKay]

Love that earthy, reedy distortion sound.

Do invest in a good mic though. Shure bullet is good but I find an SM58 easier to handle when controlling your mic position for different volume and sounds. Love that sound though. Keep tweaking.

[The01time]

i like the sound you got there. personally all i have are solid state amps so thats what im stuck with. i don't use anything but delay and once in a while chorus. but i found keep the treble low and mid low with a bit of gain to be the best using a green bullet. but am always looking to thickin it up. i use a fender m80 and sometimes a ampeg ss combo. to the point where i need to get a harpgear amp to get what im looking for. but your diy vids are sweet for the elec challenged like me

[audas]

You made it your self - great. Replica mic - I-mic , good work man.

[tonytoes3895]

creamyfilling102 - a tube amp is for a warmer sound that a solid state(preference) not distortion

[creamyfilling102]

isn't the whole purpose of a tube amp to get good distortion? i didn't hear any distortion. it sounded kinda clean and blan, like raisen bran, without the raisons, or wheat gluten for that matter.

[isaacullah]

Do you play amplified harmonica? I'm asking just so I can have some context to your comment.

[creamyfilling102]

yea. i play amplified harp. personaly, i just use a guitar distortion pedal to get a somewhat decent distorted blues sound. yours sounded more clean, so if that's what you're going for, then have at it it guess.

[ubaid88]

i want try this concept for guitar amp. We are currently use fet4tube emulation.

[powerharp]

Just came across this.... After reading some of the comments, I assume that you continued to develop this. To me it only got about 15% there. Keep up the good work. I'm one of those who refuses to play with a Bassman. I use a Piggy G60VR tube amp with a Weber speaker, but am considering going solid state.

Peace

[tbdalva]

your a smart guy, but it does not sound that great.

Try a 12ax7 tube preamp design, it's very simple and will sound better.

[slimodom]

i liked the sound you were gitting allot is it tube like close as fare as i can tell whth my headphones i would like to hear it throught a amp with a 10 or 12 in speaker but the pig sounded good also how do you like the fab delay i have been looking for a cheeo delay for my guitar to fatten it up a bit and how do you think the preamp woutd work for guitar

thanks Slim

[isaacullah]

Hi Slim, thanks for the comments! I like the fab delay just fine. If you check my channel you'll see in another video that I ended up modifying it for an adjustable delay time (added another pot) and switch out the the input capacitor for more bass. After that I think it becomes more like a $60 pedal rather than a $15 pedal. As for the preamp, I'm not sure how it would sound for electric guitar. I play my cigar box guitar through it and it sounds good, but it has piezo pickups...

[realrealblades]

If you're getting feedback on a certain frequency, I believe the key to killing that is tuning a sharp parametric eq (notch) to it. A coarse graphic one probably doesn't help that much and you'd have to kill all your treble just to get one resonant frequency out. And you might still run out of cut :)

[Charliemusslewhite]

Actually, you can get pretty far without tubes. I think you don't need a tube amp for a good sound. You can use an overdriven FET, and even an overdriven bipolar transistor/OpAmp. Main thing is, you have to cut off the treble at about 5-6kHz by 12dB/Octave, and add a slight hump at 2kHz. Use a graphic EQ or parametric EQ or a guitar speaker for that. Or get the BadMonkey together with a cheap TubeScreamer clone. Or, my fav, the Boss OC3 in drive mode, set the level of the mic really low>no feedb

[whi0019]

was it easy to build

[isaacullah]

These things are relative... It's certainly the most difficult thing I've attempted so far... I built it totally from parts and with out a printed circuit board. i had to design the layout and use "perfboard", which was fairly difficult... If you know how to read a schematic, can solder properly, and maybe have a little experience building circuits, then I would say this is pretty easy...

[whi0019]

cool thx

[markdc70]

I found the link. I'd have one heck of a rat's nest building that thing!

[markdc70]

What is the link to the schematic?

[isaacullah]

Hey, the link is up under the "about this video" section to the right of the vid. Click on "more", and the link to the page with the schematic is the first link in that section...

[jdduffield]

Nice effect! Cool that you built it!

[quinoacat]

The links in your comments are invalid aka dead...

[quinoacat]

Pardon me they have spaces in them which killed them....Thanks....I found the sites.

[isaacullah]

Hey, thanks for pointing that out, I fixed 'em! What did you think of the sound that preamp produced? Good? Bad? Tube-like? Not tube-like?