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Post subject: New Tube Amp Book Day!
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:20 pm
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Well this is a bit of an odd one but I think some of you gear heads in here may appreciate this little find of mine. We moved offices recently and my boss was getting rid of things, he knew I was a guitarist and gave me this book.

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It's very cool, has loads of information about working and troubleshooting amps, safety (very important!) and history on old tube amps from all the different brands.

HOWEVER the coolest part in my geeky opinion, is they have included 400 (yes 400!) pages of schematics from all the classic and not so classic amps from all the amp companies over the years. Fender, Vox, Marshall etc.

So I'm going to go and geek out over this, and uh, I guess if anyone needs some schematics, give me a shout :lol:


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Post subject: Re: New Tube Amp Book Day!
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:34 pm
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It is a good book for beginner in tubes amp. I give mine to a friend when I bought the new and bigger one about 10 -15 years ago . This book have all schematics on CD.

www.amazon.com/The-Tube-Amp-Book-Hardco ... 0879307676

Better books if you don't know are Kendricks books ;

/www.kendrick-amplifiers.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=KOS&Category_Code=054


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Post subject: Re: New Tube Amp Book Day!
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:37 pm
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stratele52 wrote:
It is a good book for beginner in tubes amp. I give mine to a friend when I bought the new and bigger one about 10 -15 years ago . This book have all schematics on CD.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Tube-Amp-Book ... 0879307676

Better books if you don't know are Kendricks books ;

/www.kendrick-amplifiers.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=KOS&Category_Code=054


Thanks for the useful info!

Yeah I'm very much a novice as to the inner workings of them so I figured it'd be useful to spend some time with. As a 25 year old and growing up with the internet it's easy for me to forget there was once I time you could get so much in just one book :lol:


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Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:48 pm
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Thanks for the useful info!

Yeah I'm very much a novice as to the inner workings of them so I figured it'd be useful to spend some time with. As a 25 year old and growing up with the internet it's easy for me to forget there was once I time you could get so much in just one book :lol:


Some of those are avalaible as I Book now .

Easy to trouble shout an amp with paper schematic on the bench ( with pencil ) than on a I Pad.

Welcome in the faboulous and great sound of tubes amps


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Post subject: Re: New Tube Amp Book Day!
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:55 pm
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stratele52 wrote:

Easy to trouble shout an amp with paper schematic on the bench ( with pencil ) than on a I Pad.


There's just something amazing about a book that you just don't get with a digital copy too, similar to digital music. In fact even when I get tabs from the internet now I try to write them down onto paper and learn from there, it's much more pleasant than staring at a screen IMO.


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Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:03 pm
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I have the revised Edition Tube Amp Book and Cd it has 800 schematics and they have been very handy doing repairs.

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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:40 am
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cvilleira wrote:
I have the revised Edition Tube Amp Book and Cd it has 800 schematics and they have been very handy doing repairs.



That is the one I have with CD , but first edition


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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 2:22 am
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Nice score, that's a great book, I have the same edition, I recall it cost me around $60 back in the day. It has some great old Fender Ads in it as well. Nice and thick with info and seems to weigh heaps for it's size too.

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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:24 pm
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stratele52 wrote:
cvilleira wrote:
I have the revised Edition Tube Amp Book and Cd it has 800 schematics and they have been very handy doing repairs.



That is the one I have with CD , but first edition

I have used that CD many times when getting into amps for repairs.

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