The Mellotron Group

I'm not sure if I'm venting or asking for help or what here.

It started innocently enough. I was going to build a FrankenLeslie. Took an oem Leslie 10 unit out of a dead and worthless Hammond J series spinet. (One of those horrible cheesy Hammond transistor bastards.) I'm going to build it a proper Leslie-like cabinet. I'm going to plug my A-100 into it.

All I need to do is build a simple and elegant power supply and amplifier to drive the single 8" 8ohm speaker.

I've been trying to read up on amplifiers and my head is just spinning. (Like the rotor should be!) I've spent many hours today on Elliot Sound Product's backend of of articles and projects. I got horribly confused in the first section of "The Beginnner's Guide to Amplifiers."

Thinking I should have majored in electronics engineering instead. I had no idea a simple amplifier could be so horrendously complicated. It, apparently, IS rocket science.

</RANT>

I guess the appropriate thing to ask is: Where should I be reading up or copying from or whatever to build a simple, elegant, amplifier that can take the balanced signal that comes out of a Hammond?

Thanks.
Off to take 18 more gelcaps of ibuprofen.

-Sean

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:46 AM, John Hammaren <hammaren@geoconcepts.com> wrote:

Try http://diyaudioprojects.com/Tubes/tubes.htm

From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sean
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:35 AM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Driving myself nuts with electronics stuff

I'm not sure if I'm venting or asking for help or what here.

It started innocently enough. I was going to build a FrankenLeslie. Took an oem Leslie 10 unit out of a dead and worthless Hammond J series spinet. (One of those horrible cheesy Hammond transistor bastards.) I'm going to build it a proper Leslie-like cabinet. I'm going to plug my A-100 into it.

All I need to do is build a simple and elegant power supply and amplifier to drive the single 8" 8ohm speaker.

I've been trying to read up on amplifiers and my head is just spinning. (Like the rotor should be!) I've spent many hours today on Elliot Sound Product's backend of of articles and projects. I got horribly confused in the first section of "The Beginnner's Guide to Amplifiers."

Thinking I should have majored in electronics engineering instead. I had no idea a simple amplifier could be so horrendously complicated. It, apparently, IS rocket science.

</RANT>

I guess the appropriate thing to ask is: Where should I be reading up or copying from or whatever to build a simple, elegant, amplifier that can take the balanced signal that comes out of a Hammond?

Thanks.
Off to take 18 more gelcaps of ibuprofen.

-Sean

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Gino Wong Birgelo

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Audio Mastering, Recording & Logistics, Analog Sound Design

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