Tamago
Hi everyone
I have just joined the forum as you can tell ?
Anyways, I have recently started with my foray into music. I have had a guitar for over 5 years and I could never get playing on my own, so this year I enrolled at a music school to rectify the matter, suffice to say I feel that I am doing pretty fine.
By profession I am an electronic designer, with tons of experience in audio circuitry and tube amplifiers, and I do have tons (read: A LOT) of tubes in storage which I am not really using, but I am considering building an amp using the EL34's I bought a few years back and never used. That's a longterm project but, overall I do intend to see it through.
Anything else? Well not much really, just learning as hard as I can to get up to speed with playing... Am not doing it for profession, merely for enjoyment.
inflames
Welcome to the forum! Great to have another tube crazy person with us!
giggsy
Hello new, I am Giggsy
Squonk
Welcome to the family ?
TomCat
Hi and welcome to the forum... ? ?
Where are you located?
Tamago
Thanks ? I am located in the West Rand, in Joburg (Gauteng)
Tube Experience: Built a lot of tube preamps for guitars from my last year in high school (1993) using the ECC83 which is equivalent to the 12AX7 used in Fender amps. Also fixed a Fender amp or two in high school.
Built a lot of power amps using EL34s but this was stopped due to the difficulties encountered with the output transformers, I stopped because then I had to go study engineering and had no time/money to further pursue it. Then I got into digital side of things and I've never looked back, but still, audio processing and circuits I did aplently from high school right until the present. Most of the analog audio work I do now is basically the post processing from audio D/A converters (Line and XLR) and everything else is done in software.
I am currently considering exploiting a digital notch filter I designed two years ago, in an application for a decent high speed chromatic guitar tuner as I am not happy with the commercial ones as they seem to fluctuate and make tuning in a hurry quite difficult.
I don't do that much analog or audio during the day because in my employment I basically write code from morning to night. However, all projects done at home involve audio, as I am currently also building my own kind of squeezebox, it is at an advanced stage with MP3 decoding in place (was put on hold because of toolchain vendor issues i.e. broken compiler)
CDee
Welcome to the forum, looking forward to your input! ?
Tamago
Thanks, am also likewise looking forward to everyone's input into my playing abilities and how to get there, and also, my love for buying guitars, new or second hand.
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Tamago wrote:
am also likewise looking forward to everyone's input into my playing abilities
Careful what you wish for! ?
Welcome, dude.
Tamago
Thanks very much for the warm welcome
DonovanB
Welcome Tamago...
Jack-Flash-Jr
Welcome tubinizer.
Bob-Dubery
Hi Tamago. Sounds like we might learn from you ?
Tamago
Howdy all ?
Cool, and likewise I could learn from you all, especially complex riffs that Andy Summers enjoys so much.
aubs1
Welcome Tamago......... what guitar(s) do you have, and what are you currently playing them/it through?? We need to know all!!!!
Tamago
Sorry, but I didn't see your response, happened while I was sick.
Certainly,
Ibanez GIO (Model GSA-30 BT)
Squier Strat Affinity Series, Pink with single humbucker
Amplifier: IBanez 10 watt (home), Marshall stack (model unknown) (music school)
