Just finished my Weber 5E3 kit (pics below)

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:52 am

title revised.

and i just checked audacity's site, they do have it for linux. i'll try and get some sounds up this week and maybe a video at some point in my life.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:54 am

That would be awesome. Nice one.

You must have that nice "A well done Job" afterglow feeling.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:57 am

oh you have no idea. i was so certain it wouldn't work. not sure why, probably just murphy's law. i'm so glad i didn't have to go poking around a live amp trying to figure out where i went wrong.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:58 am

Absolutely.

The "works-first-time" feeling is awesome.

rrrob9 · Post by **rrrob9** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:35 am

Impressive stuff man! Looks fucking ace.

sonicboom · Post by **sonicboom** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:17 pm

Congratulations on a great job, man. That amp's deeelicious.

I checked out the Weber website - it's looks really good to me and the prices also. I'd love to have a go at this kind of thing.

I guess it would be, like, prohibitively expensive to get a kit over to Dear Old Blighty what with shipping and import VAT etc?

Anyone tried it?

Does anyone in the UK flog amp kits like this? I googled and got some valve/speaker upgrade kit dealers and that was all.

Any help mucho appreciated

James · Post by **James** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:20 pm

Torres are a US company that have UK distrubution. From memory the prices are a bit high though, and it might be cheaper to ship from some other company (this one, Ceriatone, etc.) or even Torres themselvesdirect from the US. I'll get a link now.

James · Post by **James** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:23 pm

Torres UK
Torres US

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:27 pm

Great Job Justin/Bubbles.

Need sond klips.

sonicboom · Post by **sonicboom** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:41 pm

James, thanks for the links - your memory serves you well, Torres does come out pricey compared to Weber. I think I'll email Weber and get an idea of an all-in shipped-to-UK cost.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:23 am

Nice build!
Another UK site:
http://www.astonelectronics.co.uk/ - 5 watt kit:

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:14 pm

thanks guys. i'll try and get some sound clips up this weekend.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:10 pm

Bubbles, also check out the program Ardour for linux. It's good for doing raw multitracking and editing, then dump to a wav for post processing in Audacity.

Are you using Ubuntu?

And nice amp btw.

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:04 pm

dude, very nice. great build. im sure that amp sounds lovely.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:59 pm

PenPen wrote:Bubbles, also check out the program Ardour for linux. It's good for doing raw multitracking and editing, then dump to a wav for post processing in Audacity.

Are you using Ubuntu?

And nice amp btw.

yeah, i'm using ubuntu. i'll check that out, thanks.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:47 am

bubbles_horwitz wrote:
PenPen wrote:Bubbles, also check out the program Ardour for linux. It's good for doing raw multitracking and editing, then dump to a wav for post processing in Audacity.

Are you using Ubuntu?

And nice amp btw.
yeah, i'm using ubuntu. i'll check that out, thanks.

Awesome. Just use the "Add/Remove" app and search for those two apps, they both have packages ready. Single click install!

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:05 am

i already installed it using the package manager. i haven't had a chance to look at it yet, though.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 3:38 am

got bored, so i decided to replace all the resistors and the non-electrolytic capacitors with nos ones from apex. god, i love that place. $5 got me all the components i needed. i also cleaned up the wiring a bunch and replaced the speaker with a weber fane copy. and i replaced all the sockets.
it sounds pretty good and is a lot louder with the new speaker. i've had the amp apart for the past few weeks so i can't really remember what it used to sound like. it seems to sound slightly mellower, but in a good way. smoother, perhaps.
here are some pictures:

i bought one of these desoldering pumps, as the braid wasn't cutting it. it really works well for this kind of stuff.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:08 am

nos caps? wtf.

at THE SHOP, we do like a shit ton of cap jobs on all this old shit and replace with the orange drops. they seem to work well.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:10 am

these were way cheaper than orange drops. and even though they look grimy, they were unused.