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Inside Tube Amps: The Design, Modification and
Inside Tube Amps: The Design, Modification and

Inside Tube Amps: The Design, Modification and Repair Manual for Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers

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About Inside Tube Amps: The Design, Modification And

THE BASICS OF VACUUM TUBE AMPLIFIERSWe all love the sound of Vacuum tubes for guitars, bass, electric piano, vocals, stereo, etc. The technology is both old and new. A lot of the things we will look at are old technology, dating back to the 1930’s. But people like you and me are always working on new approaches to Vacuum tube amplifiers. There isn’t a day when something new isn’t dreamed up or some old idea isn’t unearthed from the musty corners of ancient books, magazines, and minds. We’ll study both new and old to gain a good working knowledge of tube technology and allow everyone to dream up their own new amplifiers and ideas. This book is written for musicians, not technicians. I provide math and formulas, but there are complete examples to keep anyone from being frustrated or confused. Technology. What is right? What is wrong? Why not just tell you how to make the perfect amp and be done with it? This is why I’m writing this book – frustration with getting answers. Music technology can never be completely classified as “right, wrong, good, bad, or perfect.” Technicians say: “My design is perfect – all others are bad.” But YOU do not hear it as being all that “perfect.” Good sound, Bad sound is a relative thing. We are conditioned to believe something is good by what we hear and what we like – but in any society those preferences are socially based. If we grew up hearing rock music, then guitars through limited frequency response, high distortion tube amps is what we like. That doesn’t mean the gods like it, just that we do. The sound we like is “colored” – it is not technically perfect. There are peaks and valleys in the frequency response, and even at the cleanest there is a good degree of distortion (a Gibson Type Humbucking pickup can never be 100% clean – phase distortion is built in, and can’t be removed.) If you want to hear technically perfect, plug into a solid-sta