Download or read book Design and Construction of Tube Guitar Amplifiers written by Robert C. Megantz and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete yet easy-to-understand technical description of tube guitar amplifiers, intended for musicians and amplifier designers and builders.
Download or read book Vacuum Tube Circuit Design written by Richard Kuehnel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tube Amp Talk for the Guitarist and Tech written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). For this follow-up to his popular A Desktop Reference of Hip Vintage Guitar Amps , Gerald Weber has compiled his articles and "Ask Gerald" columns that have appeared in Vintage Guitar from 1993 to 1996. As a special bonus, Ken Fischer's "Trainwreck Pages" from Vintage Guitar are also included. This book assumes that the reader has at least a working knowledge of tube guitar amplifiers, and it will be helpful and interesting whether or not guitarists intend to perform their own servicing.
Download or read book Tube Guitar Amplifier Essentials written by Gerald Weber and published by . This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). From the amp guru, and columnist for Vintage Guitar magazine, comes a future classic that features more than 60 easy-reading chapters de-mystifying the complex world of tube amplifiers. Over eight years in the making, it covers the basic knowledge and the practical steps to work on this type of amplifier, the preferred type of amp for millions of guitarists and technicians.
Download or read book The Guitar Amp Handbook written by Dave Hunter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guitar Amp Handbook: Understanding Tube Amplifiers and Getting Great Sounds, Updated Edition brings fresh information to the table to help guitarists understand everything about what makes their amps tick and how to use them to sound better than ever. It builds on the popular original edition of the book, first published in 2005. Central to the book's success is the way it walks musicians through the significance of each crucial circuit stage and component of a great number of classic and modern tube amp designs, helping guitarists get the most from the amps they already own or choose new amps that are best suited to their needs. The Guitar Amp Handbook reveals many of the tips and tricks used by today's top designers and builders, and it debunks the hype used by the marketing departments at large manufacturers keen on selling specific amps that might not be right for particular players. The book is designed to help guitarists understand what really goes on inside tube amps and where the tone comes from. This new updated and expanded edition adds further knowledge to the foundation, ensuring it continues as the most thorough and authoritative publication on the subject to be found anywhere.
Download or read book All about Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers written by Gerald Weber and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Explores all manufacturers and de-mystifys the inner workings of tube amps. All new material from the amp guru Gerald Weber. Tons of empirical data that de-mystify the inner workings of tube amps to help you get the most from your amps! You will learn how tube amps work, electronic concepts, how different types of tubes work, the anatomy of a gain stage, how to resurrect a dormant tube amp, how to do a cap job correctly, modifications to preserve your amp, how to voice an amp and tune the reverb, how to build an amp, recover a cabinet, re-grill a baffleboard, how to buy a vintage amp; and common wiring mistakes and idiosyncrasies found in vintage amps. And you get a couple of hundred pages of Questions and Answers sectioned off into Fender, Gibson, Marshall, Danelectro/Silvertone, Vox, Other American, Other British and Miscellaneous Topics. You will learn the six dreaded tone killers and how to avoid them, the top ten amp-tone tips, and how to fine-tune your entire amp setup. In short, you will have the knowledge needed to squeeze your amp's performance from lame to insane.
Download or read book Building Valve Amplifiers written by Morgan Jones and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Valve Amplifiers is a unique hands-on guide for anyone working with tube audio equipment--as an electronics hobbyist, audiophile or audio engineer. This 2nd Edition builds on the success of the first with technology and technique revisions throughout and, significantly, a major new self-build project, worked through step-by-step, which puts into practice the principles and techniques introduced throughout the book. Particular attention has been paid to answering questions commonly asked by newcomers to the world of the valve, whether audio enthusiasts tackling their first build or more experienced amplifier designers seeking to learn about the design principles and trade-offs of "glass audio." Safety considerations are always to the fore, and the practical side of this book is reinforced by numerous clear illustrations throughout. The only hands-on approach to building valve and tube amps--classic and modern--with a minimum of theory Design, construction, fault-finding, and testing are all illustrated by step-by-step examples, enabling readers to clearly understand the content and succeed in their own projects Includes a complete self-build amplifier project, putting into practice the key techniques introduced throughout the book
Download or read book A Desktop Reference of Hip Vintage Guitar Amps written by Robert Watkins and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1994 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). If you have questions about guitar amplifiers-how to fix them, how to restore them, or how to hot-rod them-this book has the answer. 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. Not written for engineers, it does not contain engineering formulas, polar mathematic equations, or abbreviations that are assumed you should know. Gerald Weber, a regular columnist for Vintage Guitar magazine, shares the knowledge he has accumulated over the years of repairing and building his line of Kendrick amps.
Download or read book The Tube Amp Book written by Aspen Pittman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TUBE AMP BOOK WITH AUDIO ONLINE ERRATA SHEET ADDED.
Download or read book Designing Valve Preamps for Guitar and Bass Second Edition written by Merlin Blencowe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Tube Preamps for Guitar and Bass is the most comprehensive guide to the design of tube-based preamplifiers for musical instrument use, in a single volume. From the input to the phase inverter this book discusses in detail the inner workings and practical design of every part of a conventional guitar preamp, including the use of triodes, pentodes, tone controls, effects loops and much more. This second edition is fully revised and includes four new chapters covering noise, signal switching, topology, and grounding. Aimed at intermediate-level hobbyists and circuit designers, it explores how to manipulate distortion and maximise performance for the perfect tone. With easy-to-read explanations, minimal math and over 250 diagrams and figures, it is an essential handbook for any tube amp enthusiast!
Download or read book The Ultimate Tone written by Kevin O'Connor and published by London, Ont. : Power Press Pub.. This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electric Guitar Amplifier Handbook written by Jack Darr and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Audiophile Vacuum Tube Amplifiers Design Construction Testing Repairing Upgrading written by Igor S. Popovich and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and practical modern reference on audiophile vacuum tube technology! Destined to become a true classic in its field, this unique DIY design & construction manual presents the theory and practice of amplifier design & construction in a balanced way. For those who dislike formulas and want proven, practical, ready-to-build designs, dozens of such commercial, tried & tested circuits are explained and analyzed. Just get your soldering iron ready and start building! Absolute beginners will benefit from the methodological approach, starting with DC circuits, then moving into AC voltages and currents and their circuits. The first few chapters of Volume 1 are a complete training course in fundamentals of electronics. Although the focus is on audiophile or "hi-fi" vacuum tube amplifiers, those interested in tube guitar amps will also benefit from the wealth of material presented, most of which directly applies to tube guitar amps as well. Apart from various audio circuits, electronic components, power supplies and tests & measurements are also covered in depth. Even tube testing and tube testers are discussed at great length, as is troubleshooting, repairing and modifying (upgrading) tube gear. The advanced topics that other books don't even mention, such as audio transformer design, construction and testing, make this reference manual a valuable addition to your technical library. For those familiar with solid state devices, such as bipolar transistors and FETs, an easy and seamless transition into tube technology is provided in the book, which adopts a unifying approach to amplification and rectification devices, be they of solid state or vacuum tube kind. This practical DIY manual is richly and professionally illustrated with photographs of tubes, components and amplifiers, circuit diagrams, tube pinouts, curves and loadlines, graphs and charts. Hundreds of such valuable illustrations make it easy to comprehend issues. There is no need to search for, download and print such information, saving you valuable time. All the information required to design and build tube amplifiers is compiled in one place. Who is this book for? Audiophiles and guitar players wanting to learn how tubes and tube amplifiers work. DIY constructors who wish to take their knowledge and building skills to a higher level. Buyers and sellers of tubes and tube equipment who need a better understanding of tube technology. Electronic technicians and engineers familiar with solid state devices and circuits, who want to expand their knowledge of tubes and their circuits. Anyone who wants to learn how to design, build, test, fix, or upgrade tube gear. Contents of Volume 2: PRACTICAL SINGLE-ENDED PENTODE AND ULTRALINEAR DESIGNS PUSH-PULL OUTPUT STAGES PRACTICAL PUSH-PULL AMPLIFIER DESIGNS BALANCED, BRIDGE AND OTL (OUTPUT TRANSFORMERLESS) AMPLIFIERS THE DESIGN PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS OF MAGNETIC CIRCUITS AND TRANSFORMERS MAINS TRANSFORMERS AND FILTERING CHOKES POWER SUPPLIES FOR TUBE AMPLIFIERS AUDIO TRANSFORMERS TROUBLESHOOTING AND REPAIRING TUBE AMPLIFIERS UPGRADING & IMPROVING TUBE AMPLIFIERS SOUND CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES AUDIO TESTS & MEASUREMENTS TESTING & MATCHING VACUUM TUBES "
Download or read book Guitar Amplifier Overdrive written by Ulrich Neumann and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of how tube guitar amplifiers produce their overdrive tones. A visual tour of common tube circuit behaviors. Explanations and illustrations of nonlinear and time-varying circuit behaviors and their impacts on tone.
Download or read book Audio Amplifiers with Tube Preamp written by Klaus Röbenack and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amplifiers equipped entirely with tubes require a great deal of circuitry and mechanical effort. A conceptually and technically interesting compromise is the combination of a tube preamplifier with a transistorized or integrated power amplifier. This approach, which has also been implemented in quite a few commercial devices, is the focus of this book. The described tube preamplifiers can of course easily be combined with other amplifiers.
Download or read book Vacuum Tube Amplifier Basics written by E. J. Jurich and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written for electronic hobbyist interested in working with vacuum tube circuits. A wide range of reference material related to vacuum tubes and audio are concise with examples and illustrations.Principles of vacuum tube operation includes function of grids, effect of tube capacitance, tube resistance, heat dissipation and voltage gain. A table of component values for the popular 12AX7 in various operating parameters simplifies amplifier stage design. Power supply sections cover vacuum tube and solid state rectifier conversion of AC to DC and DC filtering. A sample power supply is used to explain calculating loads, determining required transformer ratings and component values. Includes high voltage, bias and filament supplies.For the novice not versed in electronics several sections cover electronic basics. Includes how capacitors work, voltage, current, ohms law and reading circuit drawings.Working with electronics and vacuum tube circuits requires some math. Circuit calculations in this book use various forms of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Formulas are all solvable using a standard 12 digit calculator. Calculations are presented with examples.The last part of the book has amplifier project circuits with parts list and component layout drawings. Projects include a line amplifier with 25db gain, triode balanced-unbalanced input stage, tone control stage, turntable pre-amplifier, 6V6SE Class A stereo amplifier, 6V6SE Class A monoblock amplifier, 30 watt monoblock amplifier and a 5 watt guitar amplifier with adjustable overdrive. The 30 watt monoblock amplifier is designed for tube rolling using various type output tubes.Current version of book was updated in April of 2017.
Download or read book Circuits for Audio Amplifiers written by Mullard Technical Serv Dept and published by Audio Amateur Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
