Amplitude Audio

Happy 2025! Just want to send out a huge thank you to everyone who kept me extremely busy in 2024. I'm very grateful for your patronage. The last few months of 2024 included a few rebuilds / restorations that always have a hiccup or two and seem to take forever.

One cool project from 2024 was a conversion of an old Traynor YVM-1 Voicemaster to a two channel Marshall / Fender amp. The original amp was an amplifier that would have been used to power a small PA for weddings or live music. Now it's a versatile two channel amp with one channel very similar to the Marshall (SIR #34) amp Slash used on Appetite for Destruction and the other channel identical to the preamp of a Super Reverb. With a PPIMV, this baby can do almost anything at bedroom volume.

Another project that just recently exited the shop was a rebuild of a previously modified mid-60's Traynor YBA-1. Because the amp was modified in the past, there was little incentive to restore it to original specs. Now it's similar to a late 70's Marshall 2204 50w amp with a PPIMV - much more versatile than the original circuit.

Here are a few before and after pictures of some of these projects...

This VVT Earthquake Overdrive came in with one burned screen grid resistor and the ceramic part both power tube sockets heavily fractured - they've clearly experienced just a bit of overheating. Both tube sockets and screen resistors have been replaced, and new power tubes installed and biased. The V1 pre-amp tube was also about to give up the ghost, so that was replaced as well.