JCA Circuits “Purpleheart” Amplfiiers (Circa 1997-2002)
Back when I got seriously into playing the guitar in the late 1980’s, I quickly realized that nearly every single guitar amplifier I tried appeared different from one another and I wanted to understand why that was. I love a variety of music so I understood that there was an infinite palette of sounds/moods/atmospheres within music. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, there existed a very limited amount of information available on this subject Pre-Internet.
I built [3] of these + the prototype(s) between 1997 and 2002. I currently own #1, a local player presently owns #3, and unfortunately #2 no longer exists.
The chassis are solid 1/8″ thick aluminum using aluminum flat stock and U channel and are the first time I experimented with this type of overkill design. This is a very cool, strong, and industrial type of design.
The Purplehearts perform at the very top of the performance curve and are the baseline standard by which I measure all of my creations.
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