Another OLD STGA headphone amp found!- Hurray ( and if you find , please let us know)

Hoo RAY ,  we found another old SOre Throat Guitar amp ( headphone amp) , it is actually owned by a relative- sort of - As the story goes, he was a little kid, not quite a teen, he came ove to my house one day, and I gave him an amp.

Long story short, he grew up, played the amp as a teen, but couldn't use it much. He could never afford a decent electric guitar.
Now in his late 20's, he has a great IBiNEZ 6 string rocker type AXE, and remembered he had the headphone amp in storage somewhere.
really needed it, 'cause he was traveling by car, working odd jobs etc. couldn't always use a big combo amp. Also, he worked in the woods where there was no electricity.

so, all i need now is the 'ol serial number, and the recovery is complete.

So glad the ol thing still works, but they usually are just waitin' for people, and a fresh set of   9 volts!

the Professor

The inside scoop- opening up a can'o worms-the good kind

Here is an inside look of a Sore Throat Guitar Amp- good photo, very straight forward. you can almost build yer own just using the photo! I encourage you to do so.

Like usual, the mechanical parts and capzapitors are all out in the open, easy to service. ( the only time I've needed to is : 1. amp was run over by a car tire. 2. caps exposed to freezing  weather. )
Only IC's (sockets)  , diodes, and resistors are mounted on a PC board, occasionally a discrete transistor. and the ribbon cable. nothing else. ever.

metal film resistors are only used in a power suply line,
NEVER in an audio path.
its not just being a purest. MFR's are close to being as chemically reactive as capacitors.
 time and atmosphere will take em out.
also heat and fluctuations from supply power.
Thanx for being a reader- Learn how to solder- you'll enjoy it.

professor E

NEW -The Ace Lewis Official Coloring Contests are online--- here's a sample.

Sore Throat Guitar Amplifiers coloring contests available

Get your copies from Etsy.com, digital download. Its fun !!

There's more than just headphone amps..theres history, too.

Here is a sample page, the colored pencil lead doesn't show up well on scanner. you can get a black and white page to color, all your own. Then post them on the Facebook page, if you want to show them off. -group- Sore Throat Guitar amplifiers. Thanx for looking

The down loads come with Student Questions about the Poem- 

see if you can answer the questions!  

Workbench photo- Where the Sore-Throat Amps are built!

Here is a photo of the small orange workbench, where all Sore-Throat amps are built. 

This is the real deal, a small section of the original orange workbench, inserted into a yellow/ black costco plastic tote! Everybody in Oregon buys these totes, uses include house hold and storage.
I found a way to install everything i need inside the tote, and close the lid when I want.

See if you can pick out details

Sore-Throat Guitar Amplifiers Brochure Two: instruction Manual Pages (newest edition) and Coloring Pages Kindle Edition

by Edward Lewis (Author), Nanja Barnes-Lewis (Editor)

will be posting a new Kindle edition soon, had some tech problems with old files. sorry

NEW stuff on Amazon for KINDLE..... instruction pages, stories,coloring pages -in Kindle format

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• Sore-Throat Guitar Amps: Introduction/ Instruction Manual/Coloring Pages Kindle Edition

  by Nanja Barnes-Lewis (Editor
• File Size: 2433 KB
• Print Length: 20 pages
• Publisher: Edward A. Lewis; One edition (September 4, 2015)
• Publication Date: September 4, 2015
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B014YYBTTS

So this is what it looks like on Amazon, KDP is amazing stuff. Write what you know, or reformat what you wrote long time ago, then publish it for Kindle readers and others. 

make a few bucks. 

The main purpose of this blog, is to point out the popularity of "Adult coloring pages" , the newest fad to hit the publishing world. 

I would like to point out that the Sore-Throat guitar biz has been generating coloring pages since 1987- and we never discriminated between the kids doing them , or the adults doing them. so the way i see it, stga folks were way ahead of our time!

Just never thought about "monetizing" it, other than the kids influencing their parents to buy them a headphone amp.

so now , I always wanted to make the STGA instruction manual accessible on KINDLE, so I started with a partial manual, some background info for the newbies, and two coloring pages. 

Our coloring pages tell the on-going saga of "Ace Lewis" and his guitar adventures. 

I am thinking of putting out the manual in three editions, with 2-3 coloring pages in each one. 

Then, some day we will have a contest for aspiring writers to put all the pages together, and write a short story about "Ace Lewis". see how close it turns out to real life, but I m not looking for an accurate bio- the best written, best  sounding story will be the thing. I wont tell anybody what Im really hoping to find in the story... 

so give me some feedback, folks- tell me what you think!

Standard Sore-Throat Guitar Amp, pedal board cables and kick on power switch

Here is the standard Sore-Throat Guitar amp, with pedal board cables plugged-in. Red is guitar input, blue is main output. Change the blue with a large 1/4 inch headphone plug, and its a portable distortion amp only you can hear. Red knob is gain, wood knob is volume/ output. You can turn the power on/off with the white rocker switch, mounted in front so you can hit it with your toe if you're using it as a pedal.
Now, you can add one of these to your collection, and if it ever breaks, just send it back in the shipping box, give me a tracking number, and I'll send you a fresh one right away! You wont be without a distortion box any longer than the postman takes to deliver. It's only $4.00 across the CONUS, and HI,AK,PR, and international is $14.00 to UK, Germany, Japan. People in those places are already Jammin' on STGA's, so how about you?