Let's Build the Weber 6V30 Guitar Amp Kit! 

Thank you. I'm hoping that this type of video can help a rookie builder out. I WISH I had this kind of thing back when I started making amps.

Dare I say it, I THINK this version is a little bit lighter to carry... (plywood (mine) vs. chip board)... The amount of volume this puts out is really something else.

Whilst reviewing schematics, what we have here is a Top Boost circuit built into the Brilliant channel... and better variance/depth for Tremolo/Vibrato than an original. Weber kits many times have minor mods from the originals, like an OFF/disconnect on the Fender optical vibrato. In this case, instead of fixed speeds, we have a pot, and the depth pot too.

​@@DeadKobyWebers layout is much better. Vox just added the tube for the top boost at the right side, what made wiring difficult.

Thanks. This is a really good sounding amp.

Lots of tubes requires a monster Transformer

I'm in the Cleveland Ohio area. I don't know any of them personally, but have emailed and had good interaction with many of the other RU-vid amp techs.

@@DeadKoby That's great to hear! I have met some very nice people so far. I am really enjoying this new hobby. I think I'm going to pull the trigger on a Weber 800 kit. I have the transformers. All I really need is a board and respective components.

@@DetroitWrecker666 Cool. You can order as much or as little of the kit as you wish. In my case, I always bring my own tubes... and a few other small things.

Their kits are better today than they were 10 years ago. I only bring a few extra piece parts. Their speakers are super.

@Wilson Grey i really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff now. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.

Metal FILM resistors. I've been impressed at their heat resistance.

@@DeadKoby and quiet! But definitely a super interesting build. Expensive with those top notch weber alnico blue speakers but you only live once!! Slowing down the trem ,,,, heating up the iron is the longest part of the process. Correct me if I'm wrong but just paralleling in one equal value cap into the three cap trem circuit. That thing could use a half power switch!!

Correct......increasing the capacitance would slow the tremolo oscillator. Funny thing is, later Vox's DID slow it down, and some guys reversed it to original specs. LOL. Right now, I'm hoping for my family to go out of town so I can really test on it.... even at not-deafening volumes, it's causing stuff in the basement to vibrate in resonance. I've already been told to turn it down several times. The volume goes from almost nothing to plenty loud in about 3 degrees of the pot.... it's a hot one!

Will you be building one of these? It's a rewarding process.

@@DeadKoby yes, as my graduation project

@@callejarvholm super cool! Just take your time, and don't make the errors I did! In checking things over and over I caught all the errors before powering on.

Hi, did you get yours going? I had one minor fix on mine since I built it.... but overall it's going STRONG!

It certainly sounds thicker/fatter than the modern ones I have fixed.

If I ever did blow a fuse, I would have the amp apart anyway looking for the cause.

That's why there's options.... You can omit their pots...caps...resistors...whatever isn't your style. I've gotten good results.

@@DeadKoby like a kind of "custom shop" for kit amp builders.Can you also order, parts like Mustard caps or F&T elco's or other label in and output transformers,within the package, of the kit your order?

Yup... this is a pretty close reproduction to a JMI I think. Ted Weber didn't re-invent the wheel with this one. It's a good sounding amp.

@@DeadKoby it looks great. Needless to say, I made my comment before you mentioned the treble and bass being only on the brilliant channel. My main amp is a 1991 ac30 with reverb. Very nice, and not too bright, but I'd love a JMI era one.

​@@timmuston2687 I've fixed a number of the newer ones... the vintage ones have a different mojo... and this kit amp is more like the vintage.