In further layman’s terms, it’s one of the big “metal blocks” that is attached to a typical tube amplifier’s chassis and is the connection link between your tubes and speakers. Well in layman’s terms, it’s the final connection in your tube amplifier that takes the signal from the tubes and transforms them into impedances and power suitable for your speakers. “What the heck is the output transformer?,” you may ask. Essentially, if you’ve got the best tubes, or the worst tubes, but if your output transformer is a low-grade model, your tone will suffer no matter what you do. In fact, dare I say that in many cases - for example a reissue amplifier - a change to a higher-quality output transformer will have a greater impact on improving the overall tone than playing with different brands of tubes.
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and still had poor results in overall tone! Now if you’ve got the wrong pickup or speakers for your needs, then obviously no change to an amp is going to help all that much….īut presuming all other areas of your guitar rig/system are covered, then let’s go back to the amp itself and talk about a particular upgrade that hasn’t gotten the attention it has deserved: the output transformer.
Countless times I’ve personally played with changes to an amplifier, whether modifying it, changing the tubes, etc. Often too much weight ( i.e. blame!) is put on the amplifier, perhaps because it is the most electronically complex item in a typical signal chain. My usual answer involves examining the guitarist’s rig by taking a “system” approach when looking for a particular tone. “I’ve replaced the preamp and power tubes and gotten it biased, but it still sounds cold and brittle….” One of the common questions we receive here is, “How can I get my (fill in the blank with your favorite brand name) reissue amplifier to sound like the original?” Often times the question will contain additional information of what had been done already.
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