Healey Amplification..

[Matt77]

Good luck. There are plenty of success stories to be read.
I may be wrong but aren't Diamond amps and 65 amps set up be people that learnt how to do it themselves?
Having a crazy genius grandfather will be a massive help.
I'm pretty certain most amp builders would envy the experience my granddad has in the field.

[mikey5]

Good luck. There are plenty of success stories to be read.
I may be wrong but aren't Diamond amps and 65 amps set up be people that learnt how to do it themselves?
Having a crazy genius grandfather will be a massive help.
I'm pretty certain most amp builders would envy the experience my granddad has in the field.

Yea I think if you have the good product it will sell. Just make sure you have as many PR tentacles out there as possible (blogs Myspace other forums your own website (with a forum where people can talk about how good your amps are).

[mikey5]

Its a good name you have though Healey Amplification. Its good

[Dmoney]

Its gonna be about PR for sure.
Getting the name out, letting people know what they can do.

[Ian Price]

I may be wrong but aren't Diamond amps and 65 amps set up be people that learnt how to do it themselves?

65 amps were indeed. The guy who started it, Peter Stroud, said he got sick and tired of his amps breaking down on tour so decided to get stuck in (or something like that). Really hope it works out for you - Healey is a great name to have on an amp. Not sure why but it just sounds right.

[HTH AMPS]

I personally don't think £850 is bad - he has some pretty high spec parts - those PEC pots are a tenner a pop, so in a typical channel switching amp with clean gain, bass, middle, treble, volume plus dirty gain, bass, middle, treble, volume plus master volume and presence you have £120 worth of pots alone  PDT_030

[marauder]

The shop in hudds is GTR.. the owner is pretty strange though

He is.  Tony was great though.

[mikey5]

Seriously man I don't know what everyone else is going on about with this good luck business. The way I see it its a piece of cake. If I was marketing an amp I would demo it next to the sound I was trying to replicate or improve. I would make posters sound clips, and a website. My marketing professor told me once that lots of great products fail to reach the public due to what he called "hunting on an empty stomach" Which means that when your desperate and you just throw your product out there without proper public exposure or preparation you appear desperate and confidence is what makes a sale. I would say back off a bit get an awesome website get some posters made up the works. Think about how you can inject your sound that your creating into the minds of the public. I mean if this thing is a part time thing for you and not something you would want to pursue than do it however you want. But say you want to sell 6 amps a month you should think big. By your description of the tones you could get out of the amps it sounds like it deserves some proper marketing.

[WezV]

I personally don't think £850 is bad

its not at all, dont try to justify it.

just dont expect to be rich overnight or ever really ( i can tell you dont by the way you have priced these)  if you are doing it because you enjoy it and are striving to make things better and supposrt another income then it may work.  if you are hoping to make a living off it instantly it will probably fail.  nothing to do with the quality - just be realistic about the market

[Twinfan]

The market for boutique amps in the UK just isn't what it is in the states.  Over here, most people want the big brands.  That's just the way it is.

[JamesHealey]

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[Dmoney]

the balance thing... is that like the symmetry trimmer on an uberschall?

[HTH AMPS]

I personally don't think £850 is bad

its not at all, dont try to justify it.

just dont expect to be rich overnight or ever really ( i can tell you dont by the way you have priced these)  if you are doing it because you enjoy it and are striving to make things better and supposrt another income then it may work.  if you are hoping to make a living off it instantly it will probably fail.  nothing to do with the quality - just be realistic about the market

when I price amps up, I don't price to be competitive with anyone.  I list everything that goes into the amp, then estimate how long it'll take to build and price it according to my current salary, i.e. if I was to do this full time, I'd want at least the same wage coming in each week.  believe me, it's not a fortune.

pricing up something like a 50w channel switching head, I would easily pay £600-£800 for parts including the head cab, so you can see how this quickly becomes a considered purchase.  

[JamesHealey]

exactly HTH, I don't want to be the next "Matchless" or even worse "Marshall".

Im talking about building 3 world class amplifiers and the price is good for the quality of the build.

[Twinfan]

I don't doubt that what you're building will be a nice amp.

Who do you think your target buyer is?  That's the question...