Boyd Amplifiers

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Introducing the Boyd BB-150. A powerful 150 watt all tube bass combo with stowable chassis and ballanced XLR output. Built for Peterborough bassist Derek Bell.

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Waiting on a power transformer in order to finish this 25 watt combo amp. Other than that she's wired to go.

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Coming close to finishing this 25 watt combo. It features Weber transformers and speaker and is built for maximum headroom. The circuit also features the sweetest bias tremolo going.

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Introducing a stereo tube phono preamp. The phono-booth.

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Hardware is mounted. Time to start soldering.

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One step closer to another Gever.

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The beginnings of a stereo phono pre-amp for vinyl aficionado and all around suave mofo, Jay Booth.

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The beginnings of a 12" combo for a great guitarist; Marcel Rousseau. this will be a 25-10 watt switchable combo amp with bass and treble tone controls, reverb, volume and master controls.

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Introducing the Boyd Lance. An 8 watt, single ended, pentode driven guitar combo which will feature a 10" Weber speaker. The amp will have regular and bright inputs, volume and a gain control.

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The beginings of two more Gevers. One for me and one as a demo unit. Let me know if you are interested in testing it out. After testing the first one for a month before shipping it i couldn't go back to my old pre-amp. This version of HaGever will have one extra feature, a gain knob which will change the input stage's gain characteristics. it won't change the tone drastically but will add a compressive character to the signal.

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HaGever is up and running. tonnes of headroom and punch with just a little top end sparkle and big warm bottom end.

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HaGever is coming together.

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Boyd Gray is complete and off to a new home. Sound and video clips coming soon.

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Getting close to finishing the Bryar Gray. Electronics are wired and in place. Just need to test, tweak and then do some final cosmetics.

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The completed cabinet and baffle of the Boyd Gray amp.

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Here is a completed chassis for my latest piece, the Boyd HaGever Bass preamp. Designed from the ground up for Johnathan Shkedi (Man Alive), HaGever will be a single channel pentode driven all tube bass preamp with a fully buffered fx loop and standard 1/4" output as well as a transformer isolated balanced xlr output for recording or live applications.

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Here is the completed Boyd Wy-1, built for (in my humble opinion) one of canada's greatest guitar players, Wyatt Burton (The Silverhearts). A 15 watt push-pull design loosely based on the Gibson GA-40 Les Paul. The tremolo circuit in the GA-40 is in my opinion the sweetest sounding of all commercially available guitar amps and outperforms bias tremolo or fender style optical tremolo circuits. The amp is equipped with a 10" weber speaker and weber transformers. So far this is the sweetest sounding amp i have built.