Are any of the Tweed champ kits any good?
After being diagnosed with hearing loss (probably due to super reverbs and 50 watt marshalls) I need to find a way to get power tube distortion at volume levels below the hearing damage points.
The last time (10 years or so ago) I played a tweed champ it sounded great at low volumes.

I have a 1958 Tweed Champ and it's useful for some things but personally I think that the later style silver and Black Face amps sound better and are more versatile. If you can get your hands on a Vibro Champ, I think they are really good, I fixed one some years ago and it sounded great.

I read randall smith's paper he did to sell some of his Lonestar Special amps. Well, he's got a half power switch, and a class A single tube switch. I guess if he figured it all out, more power to him. I'm not understanding how it goes from the comparitive low bias of a class AB setup to half power bias of Class A on one tube. Of course, he is the BOOGIE MAN !

I like his management ethos which calls for "stamping out corporate bureacracy in all it's forms" but some of his products lately have a lot of technical flair but the sound is just OK .

when he came out with the boogie the world was his oyster ......the other amps had been around since hector was a pup.

Here we go again, right? But have you wielded a soldering iron before?

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Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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You know, automotive repairs, so yeah solder isnt foriegn to me. I'm thinking I could get an old Champ cheaper then building an amp and cab and buying a speaker. So what about those micro amps though. The ones that use a preamp tube for a power tube and you can run em through any cab. I know there would be no headroom at all, but maybe a good hendrix amp meltdown sound ?

Your first project is to put a real impedance switch and a half power switch in that Peavey. Get busy!

Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
-- Woodrow Wilson

Let me hide under the bench till I redeem myself.