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Electronics Class (formerly, "Amp Class")

PHOTO GALLERY

Next Class: 

Fall 2010 (September 10, 2010)

Classes meet on Fridays - 6pm - 9pm and Saturdays 9am - 5pm (classes run for 16 weeks)

Tuition: 

$1995 plus materials (materials average around $1500)

Cirriculum:

Students will build an amplifier kit and an effects pedal. 

Amp Kits

RV84: Quartet of Self Biased EL84s

Effects pedal choices:

Wide variety of  choices

Students who perform well may have the choice to complete a synthesizer project

Synthesizers choices:

PAiA Fatman Synth

PAiA Theremax Theremin

A few words about safety: Students will be working with potentially fatal high voltages. Proper safety and test techniques will be emphasized at every step of the building and testing process. All high voltage testing will be done under the supervision of the instructor. However, each participant must accept personal responsibility for their own safety. All participants will be required to sign a liability release before attending.

Jim at the board explaining amplifier gain

The class is taught by Jim Kramer. Jim Kramer is an adjunct Roberto-Venn faculty member with more than twenty years experience in the electronics industry. He holds a BA degree in mathematics from Ottawa University.

 

These are a pair of amps built by Jim Kramer. Students are now required to build a cabinet as well. Check back soon for photos of completed student projects. (Guitar built by Don Windham)
	No, that isn't Fidel with some infernal device! It's only Mike, trying to figure out what goes where...
Joe Vallee, with the quintessential repairman's probe: a chopstick!

 

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