Practical Tube Amp Course – The Looth Group

Practical Tube Amp Course, with special guest: Boots

In this special event, Boots spends time with Luke Single at his shop! Tune in to hear these two cool looths discuss what a touring…

Practical Tube Amp Course: Tube Amp Design with Jule Potter

Jule Potter of Jule Amps joins Luke Single and David Trustman in this special PTAC episode. Jule will discuss how his career in tube amp modification

Practical Tube Amp Course: Tough Repairs & Tricky Conversations

Tackling problem amps and customer requests, this week's Special Guest is Tanner Yates. Hosted by Luke Single.

Practical Tube Amp Course (PTAC): New Tool Day!

Luke demo’s two state-of-the-art tube testers; The MaxiMatcher II (power tubes) and MaxiPreAmp II (preamp tubes), found here: https://maximatcher.com/ Luke Single at Chesapeake Guitar and…

PTAC New Amp Turn-0n Checklist

0:00:00 Intro 0:00:49 Adam Grimm intro 0:04:41 New amp startup: Satellite process 0:07:01 Schematics vs. layouts 0:11:23 Satellite amps: Volume & tone 0:14:52 New amp…

Practical Tube Amp Course (PTAC): Back to Basics – Amplifier

Luke takes a page out of Tom Mitchell’s book: “How to Service Your Own Tube Amp” to systematically diagnose tube amp troubles.

PTAC – Understanding A Schematic

Luke traces a line from schematic symbols through to signal and power supply paths on simple tube amp circuits including triode (preamp), Fender Champ (5F1),…