Guitar tube amp books
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| Hip Vintage Guitar Amps This is a compilation of Gerald Weber's popular "Ask Gerald" column from Vintage Guitar. As he describes it: "This book is written for the guitarist or collector who desires a common sense approach to understanding the essence of vintage tube amps and vintage tube tone." The articles are simply written and accessible to anyone who wants to tinker with their amp. There's also a huge appendix of schematics for a wide range of guitar amps. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. | |
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| The Guitar Amp Handbook In this thorough and authoritative book, Dave Hunter cuts through the marketing hyperbole, and the blind faith, and supplies all the information you need to choose the right amp, and get the best from it. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. | |
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| The Ultimate Tone Offers the technician or hobbyist a wide information base for properly implementing guitar amplifier modifications. Topics include stage set-ups, survey of amplifier brands, tube and power supply operation, preamp circuits, master volume, tube type comparison, effects loops. Extensive discussion of switching methods. Data for 17 common tube types and 2 Hammond transformer lines. Spiral bound, 368 pages, 395 figures. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. | |
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| The Ultimate Tone, Volume 2 This volume's emphasis is on designing from scratch. It offers and exploration of modern high-gain guitar preamps, tube vocal PAs , tube and solid-state compressors and EQs, dynamic bass gear, all types of tube, semi, hybrid and alternative power amplifier design, power supply mods that are "toneful", simple switching methods, speaker cabinet design, effects loops and chains, and modular stage monitoring systems that work! Circuits are explained fully. Spiral bound, 252 pages, 283 figures. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. | |
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| The Ultimate Tone, Volume 4 There's nothing new under the sun. Or is there? Modern amplifier designers have an ever-expanding range of technologies from which to draw. When they design any new product, they have the choice of use tube, transistor, fet, integrated analogue circuits or digital approaches, or any combination of these to achieve their desired goals for tone and cost. Smaller amp companies tend to experiment more with new ideas and new ways to get good tones compared to the Big Four, and it is these small companies who set trends in design. Spiral bound, 417 pages, 548 figures. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. | |
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| Tube Amp Basics Video In this video by Gerald Weber, you'll learn the "plain talk" basics - critical basics - that every tube guitar amp user, must know. You'll learn "common sense" troubleshooting techniques that can be done without any special equipment. You'll learn the basic layout of the guitar amp and how to isolate problems so they can be solved. You'll learn correct procedure if a fuse blows or if you plug in and there's no sound. You'll even learn the contents of the "first aid kit" that goes to every gig. It’s an hour of essential tube knowledge. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. | |
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| Tube Amp Talk Full title: "Tube Amp Talk for the Guitarist and Tech". The second book by Gerald Weber, compiling another three years of his articles for Vintage Guitar. This book is like a sequel to his first book, and assumes that the reader has some technical knowledge. Again, the focus is tone, tone, and more vintage tube tone. Availability: Out of stock. | |
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| Tube Guitar Amplifier Servicing & Overhaul DVD This extensive DVD covers: basics of servicing and overhauling a tube guitar amp, what tools are needed, the wiring mistake made on 50% of all amps and how to correct it, the best way to straighten preamp tube pins, how to perform a cap job correctly, the different types of Silverface amps and how to convert each to Blackface, how to identify leads of an unknown transformer, how to make perfect chassis grounds, and much, much more! Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. | |
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