Gerald Weber가 1993년부터 1996년에 걸쳐 Vintage Guitar 지에 연재했던 "Ask Gerald" 컬럼을 모아서 펴낸 책입니다. 스페셜 보너스로, Ken Fischer가 역시 Vintage Guitar 지에 실었던 "Trainwreck Pages"도 포함되어 있습니다.
이 책은 독자들이 튜브 기타 앰프에 대한 최소한의 실용적 지식을 가지고 있다는 가정 하에 쓰여졌으며 스스로 앰프를 수리하기 원하는 기타리스트나 그렇지 않는 기타리스트들 모두에게 유용하고 재미있는 내용을 담고 있습니다.


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SECTION I: SERVICING YOUR GUITAR AMPLIFIER
Getting Rid of Noise and Hum
Performing a Cap Job on Your Amp
Fine Tune the Reverb on Your Blackface Reverb Amp
Getting Rid of Those SVT Blues
Semi-Pro Recovering Techniques - "Uncovered"
Tweaking Your Amp for Bass
Twenty Tricks to Stabilize the Unstable Amp

SECTION II: MODIFICATIONS
Adjustable Fixed-Bias Mod for Re-issue Bassman
Is Your Vibrato Up to Speed?
Converting to Cathode-Bias
Getting Rid of Filament Hum in Your Single-ended Amp
Top Ten Amp Tricks for Steel Guitar Players
Save That Princeton
Easy Mods for Your Blackface Champ or Vibro Champ
Headphone Hookup for Your Tube Amp

SECTION III: THE TRAINWRECK PAGES
Inside Ampeg Linden
The JTM45 Marshall or How the Fender Tweed Bassman Evolved into the Marshall Sound
Vintage 100 Watt Marshalls
Gibson Amplifiers
Vintage Celestion Speakers
Hiwatt Amplifiers
Tremolo - Wiggle to Wiggle
Purchasing a Vintage Amp
Very Basic Electronics
Electronics 101
Amplified Electronics
Amplifier Troubleshooting
The Care and Feeding of Your Vox AC 30
Vintage Vox Tune-up Guide
Electronic Stuff
The Unauthorized History of Trainwreck Circuits

SECTION IV: LAGNIAPPE
Interactive Volume Controls Can Work For You
Gigging Amp Tone For Under A Grand
Tube Rectifiers
De-Mystifying the Filament Circuit in Your Amp
The Evolution of Vintage Reverb Circuits
Everything Your Always Wanted To Know About Transformers (but were afraid to ask)
Fender Transformer Reference & Conversion Chart
Cool Tools For Amps
Testing Capacitors for Leakage

SECTION V: TEXAS TONE DEL MAXIMO
Undefinable Texas Tone Del Maximo - Defined
Fine Tuning the Texas Tone Del Maximo
Proper Phasing for Your Amplifiers

SECTION VI: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fender
Gibson
Marshall
Miscellaneous

SECTION VII: REVIEWS & CATALOG
Kendrick Revisited
The Kendrick Catalog
Soundcheck Kendrick 2210 Combo
Kendrick "The Rig"
Positively Vintage
Positively Vintage
Big Guitars of Texas
Kendrick Continental

Index