Introducing Headfirst Amplification

  • Thread starter Thread starter Monkey Man
  • Start date Start date
Thanks, awesome to get our own sub-forum!

My story: I've always tinkered with gear. I studied Physics (electronics and digital tech) at university so I guess have always had a reasonable working knowledge of how gear works. However, it wasn't until around 10 years ago that I got the urge to start modding tube amps - my own at first...following some rudimentary guides online. This led to building a couple of amps from kits, then progressing into my first scratch build where I sourced all the parts myself: I built a Dirty Shirley clone by reverse engineering the circuit from gut shots I found all over the Internet. The results were stunning, I was hooked!

Wanting to progress into more complex channel switching builds, I quickly realised that you really needed a good PCB for the amps backbone. This is where I guess the intersection of my interests and skills happened - guitar, tone & engineering. After a couple of tips from a mentor friend, I taught myself PCB design and we were up and running. Fast forward to today and we are,
- Building and selling our own production amps, the Alta and occasionally other custom builds like the Evil Joe. More products to come
- Lots and lots of mods
- Restoration. I don't do general repairs, but I will take a vintage amp in for some TLC
- The YouTube channel, focussed largely on tube amp education
- PCB supply to the DIY worldwide community. Will be re-branding this shortly to separate it away from our production amp brand
- PCB design for other amp companies. Some already known (Monomyth & GroundZero), others for brands that can't yet be disclosed...

I'll use the sub-forum to post info, updates and stuff - hopefully some of it interesting! ...and if you have any questions, or comments, feel free to post!

Jason
 
Mark 2c+ when?

090B0738-80D1-4F33-84FA-A3F5B05EA6D4.jpeg


Congrats with you own thread Jason! Wish you all the best! ??
 
Hello, VERY infrequent poster here.
Just want to say, love watching your videos. Very informative and great playing.
Your mods sound great.
 
Back
Top