Course Dates:

Feb 13th- 6:30pm-9:30 pm

Feb 14th- 11:30am- 6:30 pm

Feb 15th- 11:30am- 6:30 pm

Tools & Supplies: All tools and shop supplies will be provided for your use during the class.

What You Can Expect: You will spend two and a half days with our instructors who will guide you through the entire build, explain amp circuit concepts, and basic electronics and theory of operation. You will be soldering, assembling and genuinely getting your hands inside a tube amplifier.

The instructors will guide you through a classic “Tweed Style” amp build where you will learn soldering techniques, general tube amp circuit theory and an overview of what makes the “Fender 5E2A (Princeton)” circuit the blueprint for countless amplifiers.

You will be guided through the build process, learn to read a wiring diagrams and schematics used in the build. Instructors are on hand to quickly address any questions and to help troubleshoot issues should you run into any problems.

By the end of the course you will have assembled and hand wired your own tube amp to enjoy for years to come and have a much better understanding of what makes this and other tube amps so special.

Your Instructors:

Eric Zidovec is currently the owner of Indigo Amplification, a boutique instrument amplification company, and has well over 40 years of professional experience in building, assembling and repairing consumer and professional electronics. He's also been heavily involved in the financial and various retail sectors of industry, bringing his unique cross sector experience to a number of

Fortune 100 and tech startups. During that time, Eric has taught classes and held seminars on various topics such as computer security, programming, tuning and optimization and yes, amplifier building and design, in both professional and university settings.

Dennis Sutton is a retired airline pilot with a 38-year career retiring as a Boeing 777 Captain at United Airlines, as well as a certified flight instructor for single- and multi-engine, instrument, and commercial pilots. Currently an adjunct instructor at North Hampton Community College’s Fab Lab, teaching digital fabrication and electronics, and holds a General Class Amateur Radio License active since 1967, with extensive experience building Heathkit and amateur radio systems. A lifelong musician and technologist, he studied jazz guitar and violin, worked as a scientific equipment technician for New Brunswick Scientific, and pursued electronic engineering studies at Rutgers University.