About The Ampguy
Steve Ayers has been building
and repairing amplifiers for over 35 years, his first successfull repair was a valve record player when he was
just eight years old!
After a CGLI course at Kings Lynn Technical College, where he graduated with two distinctions and a credit, he
started work with an aerospace electronics company working on amongst other things test equipment for the Jaguar
aircraft. Steve has also worked as a Radio and TV engineer and this gave him a great foundation for repairing guitar
amplifiers which have very similar circuitry to the valve TV sets of the late 1970's.
Another part of the empire is the servicing of High Frequency PVC welding equipment, such as Radyne, HFD, Stanelco, FIAB and GEAF. This type of machinery uses valve technology but with just a little bit more power! Typical HT voltage for a valve amplifier is 450 - 600 VDC, in a HF welder it is around 12 - 20 KV DC with output power of 20 - 30 KiloWatts for the bigger equipment!.
The name AMPGUY came about when Steve had many phone calls from guitarists with broken equipment asking if he was the AMPGUY and could he fix their amp, the name has stuck.
Steve also gives courses in how to keep your equipment working,
click this link for more info .
Steve's partner Tena Lynn is responsible for much of the administration for AMPGUY, and is in charge of the most
important part of the whole operation .............. TEA!!
Tena takes a very important call !