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Title: Suggested reading Post by: djroge1 on December 27, 2008, 04:57:04 AM Ok so I want to build an amp and the recommendation is to learn all I can before i begin. So, I've been checking out videos on building amps and reading info on-line.
I bought this book titled "The Guitar Amp Handbook" by Dave Hunter and it seems good so far as explaining things. What do you suggest would be good to read/learn before I take on the task of building? Books or Web pages Title: Re: Suggested reading Post by: M Fowler on January 01, 2009, 06:38:24 AM Both.
The books and the web sites at the same time. You need to frequent the forum meant for the type of amp your are interested in such as 18watt.com for all Marshall style amps or other similar 18 watt amps, Brownote forum for his kits, weber forum for his, Ampgarage.com for Dumble, Trainwreck and homebrewed amps as well. I check between about 7 different forums almost daily. TorresEngineering has a good book called Inside Tube Amps and the last section shows you how to build and test a Fender style champ amp. You need to understand each section of the amp from power section, filter cap section, input, tone stack, phase inverter section then to power tube section into the output transformer to the speaker. These books show you all that and why a certain value resistor or capacitor is used. There are so many people building amps and they all have there favorite so you need to know exactly what sound in your head you are trying to get out. In my case I build different amps based on my need to have a different amp for the certain sound I want to achieve. So I have from 15 watt to 100 watt and not enough yet to stop me from building more, its a sickness I think. Mark Title: Re: Suggested reading Post by: keithshapiro on March 08, 2009, 12:27:14 AM This is a great post and response, I'm glad I came across it. So M, what are these seven forums? I've already joined 18watt and brownnote along with amp garage. The brown note amps sound pretty sweet and the instant availability of the amp garage site was incredibly informative.
Thanks for the info Keith Title: Re: Suggested reading Post by: mcmeet on January 12, 2010, 10:44:40 AM Ok so I want to build an amp and the recommendation is to learn all I can before i begin. So, I've been checking out videos on building amps and reading info on-line. I bought this book titled "The Guitar Amp Handbook" by Dave Hunter and it seems good so far as explaining things. What do you suggest would be good to read/learn before I take on the task of building? Books or Web pages Hello all. After searching for this book all over the internet and only finding it on amazon second hand for £279 uk sterling which is insane, I got in touch with the publisher. You can order directly from backbeat books for the normal retail price here: http://www.backbeatbooks.com/feature/searchProduct.do?keywords=guitar+amp+handbook Happy reading Mcmeet |