The Lava Cable Contest Winner

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 by Gabi

Congratulations to the winner of the Pink Diamond Lava Cable giveaway! And thank you for the new subscribers and video comments! Please stay tuned and subscribe to Sound Garage Tales on YouTube for more exciting amp building videos and of course giveaway contests. You never know what you might win!

Designing Amp Faceplates

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 by Gabi

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“Hey John, which one is the Volume?” said the confused guitar player starring at the amp chassis… So, you finished your amp project, sounds wicked and all that, but it sits bare naked on top of an extension cabinet or best, housed in a cabinet with Sharpie marked labels for the controls. Nice, but your amp deserves to be more elegant and sexy. After all it brews some real tone.

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Capacitor, Be Quiet!

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 by Gabi

In guitar amps, we always battle the signal-to-noise ratio. Of course we could never have the ideal guitar amp in this life because we are limited by the components we use that will dictate the final guitar tone and noise. And to be honest we don’t even need to push for a complete noiseless amp otherwise we would slide into the Hi-Fi zone and that’s NOT a field for tube guitar amps.

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