My First Amp Build! Mojotone Amp Work Shop | DIY 5E3 Tweed Deluxe
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 1. 01. 2020
- I got to take Mojotone's Amp Building Class and build a 5e3 Tweed Deluxe style combo amp. It was a great experience and HIGHLY recommend it to anyone that's interested in building a guitar amp for the first time.
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Here's what I like about this: Straightforward how-to content with no artificial time constraints or obstacles. I'd rather watch this on cable TV than most of the reality television that exists today.
It's a lot more real.
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I was dumb forgot the account password. I appreciate any help you can give me
@Jagger Tadeo instablaster ;)
@Landon Jay Thanks for your reply. I found the site through google and im trying it out now.
I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Landon Jay It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy!
Thanks so much you saved my ass!
Props for including the part where the guy says --That goes on the outside.
This was cool to watch
Anybody remember Heathkit? Everything from AM radios to color TV's in kit form. Very rewarding to complete a project like that. Congrats RJ đ
Amps too as I recall.
@@duanewilson3941 I'm sure you're correct. I just remember the things my dad assembled
Short wave around the world receivers đ
My grandfather made a solid state bass head a cab.
I built a few Heathkit projects in the mid 70âs, loved it! There are many similar kits available these days, Iâm currently building a digital oscilloscope kit. ;)
Built my first amp last month...a 5f1...first time soldering and tons of mistakes and cuss words but when I plugged it in at the end and strummed a few chords it was so incredibly gratifying.
I built my 5E3 at Mojotone and I was in the class with Rhett Shull. I had not heard of him then. The amp is great and I loved learning from the guys from Mojotone.
Hey John, I was in the same class. In Rhett video, I was the old guy with the white beard in the front row. Loved the class, Mojotone guys are great. And the Mojotone headquarters are impressive.
Great video ! Loved it ! Been playing guitar for 56 years , and I still don't know how an amp works ! Believe it or not , I learned a lot of basics watching your video !
Did this exact amp build in Chicago at Specimen a few years back. Indeed one of the most satisfying things I've ever done is to flip that switch and get sound out of something I hand built. Loved it.
I took this course about a year ago in Baltimore, Md at a friendâs local repair shop. Same course, amp, and instructors. It was a great course for a beginner. Iâve built amps prior to and after this course but it was nice to have the instructors for questions, ideas, etc. I highly recommend the course for anyone looking to getting started in the hobby. Itâs extremely rewarding to play through an amp your built yourself. Thereâs nothing like it. Good video man. Great job.
Great video, RJ. It was a pleasure meeting you in class and looking forward to years of enjoyment from our 5E3's! I'm already planning for another Mojotone build!
RJ thanks so much taking your personal time building this beauty and sharing it on your channel. Sounds great, and glad you have that 50's Fender-style tweed amp now!
After hanging with my amp tech and watching him work, if found that itâs not the actual work (soldering, wiring, etc..) thatâs difficult. Itâs understanding the how and why all the different components work together to achieve different tones.. brilliant video R.J.!!
"HOLY CRAP I BUILT THIS!" Best line! lol
Thanks for this video, RJ! I feel the same satisfaction you mentioned when I changed the pickups on my strat. Somehow it makes you more connected to the gear when you build or at least modify it. Happy new year!
You will get so much enjoyment from this amp as your own hands constructed it! Well done, great job!
Gr8 build! I've been looking into these and I think you've sold me on one! Happy New Year RJ!
That was good to watch. And the amp sounded good. I can see why you enjoyed building that.
I use Mojotone parts for my guitars. Good stuff. I have one of the last Metro Amp 800 series Marshall kits I purchased years ago and never finished. Watching you build the Tweed is jazzin' me up to get it done.
I did a Metro JTM 45 build in 2010. Iâm proud of myself ..and it sounds killer
With the guy's from Metropoulus amps ?
No but their tutelage,their instructions easy to follow but did hit a couple of snags and between the forums and their help I got it done ...
Good job and congratulations!
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Nice build man! Love it when they fire up first try!
Great job!! I,m freaking jealous. Sounds great to me but I love authentic fender sounds. Lots of guys like to put celestions in those but the circuit is a great one.
Fun video, RJ - and it's nice to hear you talking about things, since I'm just used to seeing your awesome guitar demos with no talking..
Love it! looks like SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!
You do a great job on these style of vids. What a pleasant way to get a nice amp! Cheers!!
This is so cool!! thanks for sharing this! Congratulations!
seems like a super cool project! Good job on getting yours to work, man!
The scariest time for me is installing the speaker! I've built a Tweed pro, a Tweed bassman, a Tweed super and I've modded one of those brown vibroverb RIs with an ab763 circuit. Tons of fun!
Awesome RJ ,sounds great !
Cool vid.
I built the 5E3 weber with 2-12's in it and it's been a solid good sounding amp for for about 12 years now. Enjoy!
Pretty cool class. I built a Mojotone champ style kit with my Dad. The documentation did not seem to include as much stuff as in this video. It was basically the parts and the wiring diagram, which for me was pretty tough. I was actually not successful initially and had to get some help from an amp guru... but eventually I got it working and it's a cool little amp and it was an interesting learning experience. Building amps is hard.
It can help you appreciate hiring a craftsman and paying a fair price. My Tweed looks like it was built by Homer Simpson.
Literally one of the best sounding amps I've heard
very nice job! DIY audio and music will def lift off into this new decade. Kits like this are excellent to experiment with. Soldering it to perfection and combined with better transformers(they are the pivotal part) you would be surprised where you can go...!
Congratulations RJ, that is a fun class. I went to the Phoenix class with Phil. I love these amps!
Awesome!
I want to do this one day. I think it would be beneficial to have a working knowledge of how amps function. Thanks for sharing your experience!!!
Classic, but one day is not good enough - in reality that means: Never.
Great job man! Didn't know you built it too! building an amp is super coolđđ»đ
Literally my dream vacation. Go build an amp!
I'm doing this if they ever come to Dallas.
Sounds killer!
Congratulations, it is fabulous building your own gear!
Nice job! Good on you! 've repaired and modified amps, never built one. I'd like to do a tweed Deluxe!
Great Job! I am in the process of building a home brew push/pull 6AQ5 amp. Wish there was a class for that local!
The feeling when you build something like this, priceless :D
Really cool ! Now I want to build one!
R.J. do you know you can mod the Tone Stack from just only Tone control
to Bass & Treble EQ which is a lot better for that amp !
Just move the RED power light to a new location to your like, then on that hole (since it a bigger diameter) spot weld or use rivet a small round quarter size piece of thin metal .. the add another potentiometer and find a Fender schematic that has either Bass and Treble or Bass, Mid, Treb tone stack then look at the cap values on tha Bass and Treb pots and copy that to your amp and all done !!
Now this can improve your tone !
.....or you can also move the Ground Switch to another place (maybe use a smaller switch) the move the power switch to the place were the ground was before and then you can add another tone pot to complete FULL EQ of Bass, Midrange and Treble all in a row !!
Then copy the 3 pot tone stack wiring exactly as many Fender amps have !!!
Wow !!
That amp will be a killer with such a little mod !
Listen to this mod here:
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Hope you mod yours someday !
Mods you can do .....
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Nice job RJ! Please do a demo in your studio with your guitars, would like to hear the amp put through the paces.
Good Job R.J. Last month I got a 5f11 vibrolux from Mojotone and I love it. Going to get me the 5e3 deluxe next! Lets see some videos of you rolling some different speakers through it. Right now I'm using a Fat Jimmy c1025 in my 5f11.
Awesome! I have been thinking about getting one of these kits. I would love to take their course.
Great job R.J. !
RJ well done! The hardest part is not building, but troubleshooting if something goes wrong.
very satisfying - wish I had a course like that local to me in the UK
R.J., thanks for posting this! I'm always looking for bargains on amplifiers but have been pondering the Mojotone route for quite awhile and may do the the 5E3 kit and class. Also, thanks for showing how well that Epi Les Paul sounds! Would love to get a new LP but can't swing for a Gibson. Thanks again!
MJ
Happy new year RJ, best wishes (music and life!) Cheers from France.
It sounds so good!
I built electrical components for streetcars, and it was never this cool. Well done brother!
Thatâs a blazing tweed tone!! You should feel proud!! I think Iâm going to build a smaller blackface kit.
Definitely on my bucket list along with building an Archtop with Dale Unger
Good job RJ.
This is a very tempting quarantine past time lol.
Dude, nice! I think everyone should build at least one amp in their lives. The only one I regret building was a point-to-point wired Soldano. It worked fine, but I could never get rid of 100% of the RF interference... PCBs exist for a reason đ
Exactly. Wire dress is so important, once you up the gain anywhere. I have seen some beautiful PCBs, mostly Motherboards, but with glorious ground planes and surface mount parts that no amount of hand skills could approach.
A sloppy 5F1 with nothing but a speaker to amplify its flaws, otoh, what could go wrong?
My 5E5 worked but I know now that somebody else needs to do this for me. Like if I had to entertain a stadium full of people, I would call R.J.
and i will, what happens if i can't go to the mojotone facilites... with all the questions resolved at the moment, "if someone from mexico" for example, screw up some step , can you have some kind of support?
@@gaspas That's the flaw. No one to QC your work
That was cool! Would love to try this sometime!
Just a tip. Jensen speakers take a long time to break in. Probably due to the weak magnet. When they do break in they are great. Many guys think they stink and replace them right away. Give them time. The complex highs and more lows will come. I have 2 and the second one is taking longer than expected to sound like the 1st one. 5e3 is the greatest circuit ever. A couple minor tweaks to make it rip. I swapped first 2 coupling caps to .02uf to minimize low end fart and added a grid stopper PI input resistor. Also, I tweaked/reduced my tone control cap to taste because the original value steals too much mids and gain. Just wanted top end to reduce. Great to see guys building these. Everyone needs one.
Plug the resolectric into that and throw down some wicked slide when you get home!
Good onya for giving amp-kit building a go, RJ, you did a great job of it, I wouldn't mind getting the chance to do something like this at least once in my life, I'm currently working on a diy scratch-build Soldano SLO 50 amp-build project.
Very cool!
Well done.... nice Amp!
Thatâs awesome, Iâm interested!
Beautiful tone
Whatever song that is played at 3:52 and beyond makes me Happy.
Great work! Looking forward to see a sound comparance with Rhetts 5e3.
That was really cool! Iâll bet youâll put that baby to good use!!
Nice!
Iâve been thinking of getting one of those kits as well. I think Iâll just do it! Thx
Well done, sir đđ
Awesome!!!!!!!! Brother
Nice job!
I took the class in Phoenix and it was awesome.
You're hooked! and there's no coming back:-) Now you can try to build your own from scratch,a 5C1 clone would be the simplest to do and they sound really nice.
Great work. Thank you for your documentary.
...very cool...thank you đ
Thatâs awesome
Happy New Year!
Awesome vid. Awesome playing also
Nice one RJ, sounds nice and clear at this end. I hope you keep us all up to speed on how it's performing and if you dig it more than other combos?
Would love to see a video of how it sounds now. Do you still like it and would you do it over? Thanks for posting. Thinking about taking the class in November here in Nashville.
Great video!
Good one RJ! Sounds great! Larry Carlton used a 5E3 on a lot of the Steely Dan stuff he did.
Such a legendary amp!
Looks like so much fun I would love to do that 1 day
Yeahh, but one day is not good enough - in reality that means: Never.
so cool!
Wow dude, great to see R.J. hadn't kept up lately since escaping social media nonsense.
Having built a few amps before, one of the most important parts is the circuit testing. Looks like this amp tech is helping out here. Do they cover how to test this one in the manual or other documentation?
It works!!!
Very cool :)
Awesome! Would love to do something like that one day
Yeahh, but one day is not good enough - in reality that means: Never.
Killer video
I would love to do this!
I even know how to solder.
Word to the wise: Donât try to build an amp naked.
It looks great!! Thanks so much for the video! Did you write the music? I hope to do this too!!
Good job man! Entertaining video too :-)
SO awesome....I would love to do that someday...I have built guitars and very small amps but never a fully functional big amp like that...excellent job
Yeahh, but some day is not good enough - in reality that means: Never.
Kim Hansen I only say someday because the funds arenât there yet. I have other responsibilities more pressing atm
@@madbam Sorry.
@@kimhansen6384 No worries...all good
your very own handwired amp
Great
nice build man I sure do wanna do this myself, basically get the class for like $200