The guitar amplifier player's guide: an instruction & reference manual for musicians
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adam_text | Table
of
Contents
Introduction
.................................................................19
How to Use This Book
..............................................................22
Part One | Good Stuff
Chapter One
—
A Good Amp
......................................29
Choosing an Amp
......................................................................30
All the Wrong Reasons
..............................................................34
Chapter Two
—
Good Tone
.........................................39
Try Recording Yourself
.............................................................41
Playing Alone vs. Playing with a Band
......................................42
Midrange Boost
...................................................................43
Good Clean Tones
.....................................................................43
Clean and Clipping
.............................................................44
Modern Fat Clean Tones
—
Experiment One
...............45
Vintage Fat Clean
—
Experiment Two
..........................45
Clean and Distorted
—
Experiment Three
....................46
Good Dirty Tones
......................................................................46
A Word About Hum
..................................................................47
Table
of Contents
Power Supply Hum
.............................................................48
Heater Supply Hum
............................................................48
Other Forms of Internal Hum
............................................48
High Gain Hiss
...................................................................49
Chapter Three
—
Benchmark Amps
...........................51
Older Fender Tweeds
................................................................51
Later Fender Tweeds
.................................................................53
Blackface Fender
........................................................................54
Non-Master Volume
100
and
50
Watt
Marshalls
.....................55
Late
60s
to early
70s ..........................................................55
Heads and Cabs
........................................................................56
Vox AC30
..................................................................................57
Dumble and Early Mesa/Boogie
..............................................58
Trainwreck
.................................................................................59
Master Volume Marshall
...........................................................60
High Gain Multi-Channel Amps
..............................................61
Digital or Modeling Amplifiers and Computer Programs
........62
Chapter Four
—
Great Recommendations
.................65
Peavey Classic
30
and Classic
50 .........................................66
Peavey Transistor Amps
.......................................................67
Fender Reissue Tweed and Blackface Amps
........................67
Marshall
50
Watt Small Box Non-Master Volume Head
.... 67
MarshallJCM800
................................................................67
Vox AC30
............................................................................67
Two Rock
...........................................................................68
Tone King
...........................................................................68
Matchless
.............................................................................68
Trainwreck
..........................................................................68
Speaking of Decent Folks
..........................................................69
Part Two | Tweaking Your Tone
Chapter Five
—
Dowsing for Tone
..............................77
Cultivating Your Style
...............................................................78
Changing Speakers and Cabinets
..............................................78
Replacing a Speaker
............................................................78
viii
Table
of Contents
Connecting Speakers
—
Series and Parallel
........................80
Power Delivered to Individual Speakers in a
Multi-Speaker Cabinet
...................................................81
Lowering Volume with Half Power and
Mismatching Impedances
...............................................83
Removing Tubes and Ohms
...........................................84
Changing Power Tubes
..............................................................84
Removing Power Tubes
.......................................................85
The Base Clamp Retainer
...............................................85
The Spring Retainer
.......................................................86
The EL84 Retainer
.............................................................86
Installing New Power Tubes
................................................87
Octal Power Tubes
..........................................................87
Nine Pin Tubes
.................................................................88
Biasing the New Power Tubes
............................................91
Cathode Bias
...................................................................91
External Bias
...................................................................91
Internal Bias
....................................................................93
Changing Rectifier Tubes
....................................................93
Changing Preamp Tubes
...........................................................94
Replacing Cords and Cables
.....................................................95
Adding a Sag Modification
........................................................95
Tube Rectifier
......................................................................95
Magic Resistor
.....................................................................95
Changing the Output Transformer
...........................................96
Adding Your Tech s Favorite Mod
.............................................97
Rebuild Your Amp
.....................................................................97
Chapter Six
—
Cultivating Your Style
.........................99
Playing a Non-Master Volume Amp
.........................................99
Jumping Channels in Vintage or Reissue Amps
......................103
Playing a Master Volume Amp
...............................................105
Chapter Seven
—
Speakers
.......................................107
Frequency Response
................................................................108
Efficiency
.................................................................................109
Power Handling Capability
.....................................................109
Anatomy of a Guitar Speaker
.................................................111
ix
Table
of
Contents
Magnet Material ................................................................112
NIBs ..................................................................................114
Speaker
Cone
Material ............................................................115
Wood Fiber ........................................................................115
Aluminum Cones ..............................................................
115
Hemp Cones
.....................................................................116
Speaker Diameter
....................................................................117
Eight Inchers
.....................................................................117
Ten Inchers
........................................................................117
Twelve Inchers
...................................................................117
Fifteen Inchers
...................................................................118
Speaker Manufacturers
...........................................................119
Celestion
............................................................................119
G12H30
........................................................................119
Greenback
.......................................................................119
The Blue
.......................................................................120
The Vintage
30 .............................................................120
Jensen
................................................................................121
Eminence
...........................................................................122
Ohms
....................................................................................... 123
Resistance and Impedance
................................................123
Ohms, Practically Speaking
...............................................124
Impedance and Power Delivered by an Amp
............... 125
Transistor Amps
&
Ohms
.............................................127
Tube Amps
&
Ohms
.....................................................128
Chapter Eight
—
Cabinets
.........................................133
Open vs. Closed-Back Cabinets
..............................................135
Getting the Most Bass from Your Gab
....................................136
Speaker Cloth
..........................................................................136
Chapter Nine
—
Power Tubes
...................................139
Octal Power Tubes
............................................................139
EL84s
................................................................................142
Power Tube Life
................................................................143
Tube Manufacturers
................................................................143
JJ-Electronic
......................................................................144
Svetlana
.............................................................................145
Table of
Contents
New Sensor ........................................................................146
Tube Rectifiers
.........................................................................146
Chapter Ten
— Preamp
Tubes
..................................149
NOS Preamp Tubes
................................................................152
Chapter Eleven
—
Cords and Cables
........................155
Guitar Cable
............................................................................155
Capacitors and Capacitance
.............................................156
Harmonic Content of a Sound Wave
...............................158
Time Domain of a Sound Wave
.......................................159
Electronic Buffer
................................................................163
Speaker Cables
........................................................................164
Ribbon Speaker Cable
......................................................166
Power Cable
.............................................................................168
One Last Tip
...........................................................................169
Chapter Twelve
—
A Word About Volume
................173
Why Higher Volume Sounds Better
........................................173
Amp Response At Higher Volumes
...................................174
Human Ear Response to Higher Volume
..........................174
Wattage Knobs
........................................................................176
Dummy Loads (aka Attenuators)
.............................................176
Master Volumes
.......................................................................177
Variable Transformers (aka Variacs)
........................................177
The Sag Circuit
.......................................................................179
Part Three | The Basics
Chapter Thirteen
—
Amplifier Basics
......................183
The Preamp
.............................................................................184
Gain Control
.....................................................................186
EQ/Tone Controls
............................................................187
Effects Control
...................................................................188
Reverb
...............................................................................188
Tremolo/Vibrato
...............................................................190
Effects Loops
.....................................................................190
The Power Amp
......................................................................191
Table
of
Contents
The Phase
Inverter
............................................................192
Presence Control
...............................................................193
Transformers
.....................................................................195
Choke or Inductor
.............................................................196
Inductor Saturation
......................................................198
Magnetic Noise
.............................................................198
Toroidal Inductors
........................................................199
Transformer Basics
............................................................200
The Output Transformer
..............................................202
Speakers and the Power Amplifier
.....................................203
Line Out
..................................................................................205
Chapter Fourteen
—
Distortion Basics
.....................207
Gain
.........................................................................................209
Distortion
.................................................................................209
Clipping Hard and Soft
.....................................................210
Harmonics
.................................................................................211
Harmonics and Clipping
...................................................216
Sub-Harmonics
.......................................................................217
That Ringing Fuzz Sound
.......................................................218
Attenuators and Dummy Loads
........................................219
Opportunities for Distortion
....................................................219
Overdrive and Boost/Distortion and Fuzz
.............................220
Overdrive and Boost
..........................................................220
Distortion and Fuzz
...........................................................222
Distortion Pedals
...........................................................222
Fuzz Pedals
...................................................................223
Preamp vs. Power Amp Distortion
..........................................223
Preamp Distortion
.............................................................224
Power Amp Distortion
.......................................................225
Power Supply Sag
..............................................................226
Speaker Distortion
...................................................................228
Chapter Fifteen
—
Tube Basics
.................................231
Tube Strengths
........................................................................232
Transistor Strengths
.................................................................233
How Tubes Work
.....................................................................234
Grid Voltage
......................................................................234
Diodes
...............................................................................235
Table
of Contents
Rectifier Tubes
...................................................................236
Triodes
...............................................................................236
Tetrodes
.............................................................................238
Pentodes
............................................................................239
Kinkless Tetrodes
...............................................................239
What s in a Name?
..................................................................240
Chapter Sixteen
—
Safety Basics
..............................243
A Word About Attenuators
.....................................................248
Speakers, Loads and Speaker Cable
........................................248
Chapter Seventeen
—
Grounding Basics
..................251
The Death Switch
.............................................................255
The Ground Wire
..............................................................256
Part Four | Appendices
Appendix A
—
Speaker Ohms Charts
.......................263
30
Watt Amplifier, Two Series Speakers
..................................264
30
Watt Amplifier, Two Parallel Speakers
...............................264
50
Watt Amplifier, Two Series Speakers
..................................265
50
Watt Amplifier, Two Parallel Speakers
...............................265
100
Watt Amplifier, Two Series Speakers
................................266
100
Watt Amplifier, Two Parallel Speakers
.............................266
Appendix
В
—
Power
Tubai
Tones
............................269
Tube Tone Characteristics
.......................................................270
Tube Substitution Chart
..........................................................271
Appendix
С
—
Preamp Tube Types
..........................274
Appendix
D
—
Amplifier Block Diagrams
................277
Part Five | Glossaries, Checklists and Index
Glossary A
—
Technical
............................................283
Glossary
В
—
Tonal
...................................................295
Checklists A
—
Choosing an Amp
............................301
Checklist
В
—
Safety Guidelines
...............................305
Index
..........................................................................309
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