Tube Amp Building

Event Organizer: Specimen Products
Organizer Email: info@specimenproducts.com
Event Phone: 777.489.4830

Event Status: Upcoming

Categories: Tube Amp & Electronics Building

Dates and Times:

April 22 - 24
April 22, 2016 - April 24, 2016
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Available Tickets:

Event Venue: CHICAGO SCHOOL OF GUITAR MAKING

Description: [B]uild your own Tweed-style guitar tube amp - just like the original, utilizing an excellent kit with special component upgrades. This hands-on workshop offers an opportunity for guided amp construction under the watchful eye of an experienced amp builder and instructor. We are pleased to offer a rare opportunity to learn tube amplifier building with Kye Kennedy. This is an ideal seminar for those working as a guitar technician, roadie, music store employee, touring musician or for anyone interested in working on instruments. Useful handouts will be provided. For first time builders, we strongly recommend the Tweed Deluxe or Champ which offer the perfect level of involvement for the seminar. If you are a first time builder and have your heart set on one of the higher-powered models, simply bear in mind that some additional hours may need to be logged to complete the build. NOTE: We combine this seminar with our Hi-Fi Stereo Tube Amp Building Seminar. By combining these seminars, students have the opportunity to learn/observe both traditional point-to-point construction and the classic Fender/Marshall motherboard construction. All the tenets of lead dress (wiring) remain the same regardless of what method is used.

Schedule

Weekend workshop: 10am - 5pm, over three consecutive days: Friday, Saturday and Sunday Weeknight workshop: 7pm - 9:30pm, over five consecutive evenings: Monday through Friday

Enrollment

Enrollment is limited to 8 students.

Fee

Tuition fee is $685+kit materials. Tuition includes instruction, materials and shop supplies necessary to complete the amplifier. Amp kit, tubes, and shipping are additional and cost depends upon your amp choice.

Registration

Enroll online on this page with credit card or paypal, or by phone: 773.489.4830, or with a check mailed to us or in person. You will receive a registration confirmation email once we receive payment.

Accommodations

Click Here for a list of nearby places to stay during seminars, along with transportation information.

Instructor

Kye Kennedy Kye brings decades of experience as an amp and stage technician working for an impressive roster of clientele in Nashville, the mid-south and around the globe. Kye will come to Chicago specifically to teach at the Chicago School of Guitar Making. He will reveal the closely guarded secrets and and a broader understanding of tube amp circuitry and troubleshooting. His extraordinary amp diagnostics curriculum is well thought out and lucid. This class represents more than the just the keys to a vocational opportunity – here’s a chance to learn from one of the best in the business. Kye Kennedy: Click here to learn more about Kye

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION

This seminar offers lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on training. Students will observe the stages of the kit building process and then carry out the work on their own amps under the supervision of the instructor. Students will obtain a foundational understanding of the way a vintage tube instrument amplifier functions, stage by stage, and learn the craft of point-to-point wiring and how to modify a circuit to shape its tone by changing component values. By building an amplifier, students will begin to develop the diagnostic skills necessary to troubleshoot and repair other amplifiers. For this particular class we are offering the Tweed Deluxe, Tweed Bassman or Tweed Champ Kits.

Kits are supplied by Mojo Music. The parts included are excellent quality and the cabinets are pre-assembled and beautifully covered in authentic tweed fabric . Every aspect of the kits is as faithful as possible to the original design.

Each kit comes with its own schematic and layout diagram (there are no assembly instructions included). The legendary circuits used in this seminar are the same as those that have made "Tweed"- era amplifiers revered among musicians. The school pre-drills all the chassis and motherboards to prepare them for the seminar.

These amps are bullet-proof workhorses that are easily serviced, modified, and maintained.

Through this seminar, students will discover the beauty of cloth-covered wire, heavy transformers, chassis-mounted components, and finger-joined pine carcasses. Click here to visit Mojo's web site and read more about the kits and their contents. Our kit prices include shipping to the school and the kits Mojo makes for our school include upgrades to certain better quality components and more sensible features.

Workshop Materials and Supplies

The school will provide each student with their own kit, individual workstation and all the necessary tools. Students can select which amp kit they will be building. The workshop fees listed include the class fee and the amp kit fee is surcharged. Payments for both the class and the amp kit will be made to Specimen at the time of registration and all amp kits will be shipped directly to our shop. Since opening the school in 2005, more than 2000 students have learned how to build and repair guitars and build tube amps at the Chicago School of Guitar Making.

How to Register

You can register for any of our classes on-line, by phone, through the mail, or in person. We will send you a confirmation email of your registration once we receive payment.

Register Online

Make your selection of the class dates you wish to attend (and the type of kit if applicable) in Available Dates column on the upper right of this page and click ENROLL NOW > Enter the required information and then proceed to pay by clicking the Paypal button where you can pay with either a Credit Card or with Paypal. NOTE: It is NOT necessary to have a Paypal account to use their service.

Registration by Phone 773.489.4830

If you prefer registering by phone with your credit card: Please call us at 773.489.4830 and we will complete your registration over the phone. We will send you a confirmation via email, or by snail mail if you prefer.

Register by MAIL with a CHECK

You must first contact us to register to pay by check in the mail. Please call us at 773.489.4830 to reserve your space in the class. Please print out the registration form and mail it to:  Specimen Products  1240 N. Homan Ave  Chicago, IL 60651 We will email or snail mail your enrollment confirmation upon receipt of your mail-in registration form/payment.

Register in Person

You can come in to the shop during business hours and enroll using cash, your credit card, or a personal check. We’re open Monday through Friday 12 – 7 pm, Saturday 12-5 pm. We are closed on Sundays. Map our location. Please call us at 773.489.4830 to let us know that you wish to register, so that we can save your space.