This article is writing a book about a series of six books, the discovery is complete and clear explanation of most tube amps for guitar architecture, circuits, sound, components and manufacturing technologies for you, I have always done. The article deals with each book individually and recommends their purchase in a specific order to do to grow your knowledge hand in hand with the building.
Kevin O'Connor from London Power has created a series of books under the general title"The Ultimate Tone". These books are truly unique and carefully tailored for the manufacturer of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) hobby tube amps and boutique guitar amplifiers. The books have a home "feel" and ... All figures are hand-made and books are printed on photo-copy paper 8.5 "x11" and bound with plastic tips and plastic lids. There are six books in the series now published with the youngest of the late spring of 2008. You can buythe whole series at once and get a modest savings, but I think you should consider buying one at a time and digest as you go, construction projects along the route. An important point when ... Not necessarily want to buy in numerical order. I recommend the following order:
The volume of the Ultimate 3 - Generations of Tone
The volume of the Ultimate 5 - Capture tone
The volume of the Ultimate 2 - systems approach to Stage Sound Nirvana
The Ultimate Tone Volume 4 - AdvancedModern techniques of Guitar Amp Design
The Ultimate Tone - Modifying and Creating Custom Tube Guitar Amplifier
The Ultimate Tone Volume 6 - Timeless sound built for the future today
The volume of the Ultimate 3 - Generations of Tone
This is the most important book in the series for the beginning of the tube amplifier manufacturers.
Chapters 2-4 lay the foundation of a good tube amp building DIY, fill good electrical connectionsThe technology developed on the ground, dressed in lead and other wiring sets and techniques for setting mechanical, including installation methods such as terminal blocks, turret and eyelet boards.
The following sections only a certain amplifier "iconic", each amplifier iconic, a typical example of amplifiers in its class, and are studied in detail on the circuit technology, individual characteristics of the sound of this result and the fatal error that the product is known for. Kevin sees the originalPatterns, and then shows how the techniques in previous chapters in detail to improve performance and reliability of the symbol, unmatched sound. The patterns are provided by redesigned layout and mechanical solutions for each chapter, a complete, self-employment, project amp Build-it-yourself.
This process is responsible for several versions of the Champ is repeated in chapter 5 (this section greatly influenced my design single-ended amplifier), thenrapid succession: Bassman, Plexi, 800, Bull Dog, AC-30, Port Flex, SVT, BassMaster, Custom Special Guitar Mate, Duke offers amplifiers and Laney.
If you buy a book just for the guitar as a hobby DIY amp highly recommend them.
The volume of the Ultimate 5 - Capture tone
Volume 5 Volume 3 incorporates guitar stopped with an approach based on some challenging projects and tube amp and solutions for DIYBass.
The book begins with a chapter on looking idling tube called a "tube sound" followed by a chapter on the guitar pickups and electronic properties.
The next two chapters are small projects: Sigma for the effects of switching and Triple-X switch for the amplifier.
Chapter 5 and 6 are for transformers ... important components, but it made me yawn, sorry.
Beginning with Chapter 7, all logs and pulled out the project are sky ...Major (200W), Soma 84 (EL84 amp), Standard (the London Power Standard Preamp is coupled 1995 with a 50W amplifier with four tubes), double probe (mixing types of power tubes), AX84 (Talk about the objective original of a very low yield of amplifier), Kelly (4 6V6s 50W) and numerous other projects of lesser scope.
A pet project I did was on a review of Kevin's Matchless HotBox Tube Preamp Pedal is based on Chapter 16 I built this in a "real style point to point" really pedal(Terminals Ie) in a tube of foot care by Doug Hoffman, providing a Baxandall tone control and rework the precursor values from Dumble-esqe (non-HRM-type).
What would you do to adapt to the style of an amplifier Yngwie Malmsteen? See Chapter 18, "the Swede."
The volume of the Ultimate 2 - systems approach to Stage Sound Nirvana
Volume 2 is not oriented to the project. Most of the book, chapters 2 to 5 deals with power and trickscomplete picture of power amplifiers, including tube, solid state and hybrid amps. Chapter 3, tube amplifier power, has some very practical information on mods and fixes for Marshall and Fender biasing circuits.
Like the first and final chapter of volume 2 of the best. The first chapter is a brief discussion of stages and setting the stage for a change for the best audience / band experience. The final chapter 6 is called "pillars of Tone" and in this chapterMain causes of block-level tone of a tube guitar amplifier design system are discussed individually, Kevin has some very valuable insights into EQ in the preamp / power amp.
The Ultimate Tone Volume 4 - Advanced Techniques for Modern Guitar Amp Design
This is the book you want to buy if you need to deeply involved with technology scaling, the feeling that Kevin has developed. Power Scaling marked, andKevin Marks is the way in which aspects of the distortion output stage (as opposed to preamp distortion) to obtain the volume of tone in the bedroom. Volume 4 is no DIY project-oriented, but explores the issues, including mitigation, the power scale (both up and down), SAG, and power management, faced by designers for modern guitar tube amplifier.
That is, the second can until the penultimate chapter in volume 4 is important for a wider group of enthusiasts, builders ... Design philosophy. In thisKevin chapter provides a hierarchical design process, with important decisions as you approach your next project could be done.
The Ultimate Tone - Modifying and Creating Custom Tube Guitar Amplifier
There is a band number in the title of this book, it was 1. Personally, I bought it for completeness. I especially wanted to have the "perfect effect way" information, although the cycle is contained in a project to tape 5. TUT alsoexcellent material on the reverb signal and switching methods that are not explained in other volumes. The first half of TUT leads / overviews tube amps, power, and then focuses on the base, on stage and changes to trade amps (eg Marshall / Fender) ... They are completely new to electronics first specimen Now tape the same time as band 3 can.
The Ultimate Tone Volume 6 - Tone Timeless built for the futureToday
In many ways, Volume 6 is a continuation and extension of the material in Volume 4, which is introduced in the power scale. In volume 6, a new "direct control" Powerscaling version is presented, introduced in volume 4, but flushed with extensive circuitry and "sag" and used to support the control and in band 6. The new scale circuits have many advantages for manufacturers to "do it yourself, such as increased noise immunity and reduced sensitivity to the layout, etc.
Iapplied to scale up the new DC project Trainwreck clone and was really impressed with the improvement of "playability" low volume ... the circuit is not changed Trainwreck Express is simply too strong for household use, must be cranked to the sweet sounds, is known to receive.
One of the chapters in volume 6 is dedicated to the Dumble amp ... something that I was very excited because many of my hobby projects focus on these elements. I found this shortChapter a good introduction to the architecture of Dumble amplifiers, from the perspective of the evolution of the first amps modified standard Alexander Dumble began to be written, but I felt the chapter was concerned with some of the important nuances of the late short Dumble models.
Volume 6 amplifier has many other materials in it, including a great tutorial on design really high output power and a large chapter on high-gain amplifierCircuit designs with real-world reference and detailed.
In summary ...
Kevin's books have a very empirical approach. He invites you to repeal the agreement in some cases, or not afraid, combinations of pipes or tubes running in and try to clarify all cases, explains why it is OK and indicates no reason why not all the examples in order his books are very practical and certainly fans of DIY in mind when writing.
Kevin's bodyThe work is truly encyclopedic in nature, and there, a feature sorely missing from his books, any kind of indexing ... This is compounded by the fact that Kevin is constantly in earlier writings, rather than repeating in a new band again, and it is very difficult to put your finger on the link even if the other book in hand. Perhaps the technology of search engines such as Google's search capabilities to the protected content can be brought to a good cause, in this case and offer a kindAuto-find index "of Kevin's books without actually giving away the book itself. Or better yet, such as an e-book format, complete collection of books by Kevin TUT ... I think all the e-book reader included search functions. .. and Kevin's hand-drawn diagrams would probably appropriate scale and function very readable on e-paper display of these devices.
In the meantime, how do you now Kevin's books? The best way to get books, just to go outLondon Power Press. You now have a cart on http://www.londonpower.com.
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