앰프 전문가이자 Vintage Guitar 지의 컬럼리스트인 Gerald Weber가 쓴 이 책은 60개가 넘는 챕터에 튜브 앰프의 복잡한 세계를 알기 쉽게 풀어 설명하고 있습니다.
8년 넘게 준비되고 쓰여진 이 책에는 수백만의 기타리스트와 테크니션들이 선호하는 튜브앰프에 대한 기초 지식과 작동에 대한 실제적인 내용들이 담겨있습니다.


- Contents -

SECTION I: GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR AMP
Tube Amps of our Times - Vintage vs. Modern vs. Boutique
Getting the Most from Your Tube Guitar Amp
"Playing" Your Tube Amp
Fine Tuning Your Amp Setup
Fine Tuning Your Amp Tone
Adjusting a Tube Amp for Tone
Tube Amp Basics

SECTION II: TIPS FOR THE NON-TECHNICAL GUITARIST
Making Sense of Tube Amp Talk
Amp Tips for the Technically Challenged
Tube Amp Tips Every Guitarist Should Know
Servicing Tube Amp: Getting Started

SECTION III: THE FOUR PARTS OF A GUITAR AMPLIFIER
Basic Preamp Tube Amplification for Guitar Amplifiers
Basic Output Tube Amplification for Guitar Amplifiers
Basic Power Supplies for Guitar Amplifiers
Speakers and How They Affect Tone

SECTION IV: BIASING
More on Bias Explained and Defined
Fixed Bias vs. Cathode Bias

SECTION V: CAPACITORS
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Capacitors
What You Should Know About Coupling Capacitors

SECTION VI: RECTIFIERS
Converting a Solid State Rectifier to Tube
The Port Arthur Rectifier

SECTION VII: TUBES
The 12AX7 Preamp Tube
Tube Substitutions in Guitar Amps
Current EL34 Tube Tests
Tests of Current and Old Style 6L6 Tubes

SECTION VIII: TRANSFORMERS
Transformer Questions Answered

SECTION IX: SPEAKERS
What Guitar Players Should Know about Speaker Impedance
Easy Speaker Fixes

SECTION X: TROUBLESHOOTING
Simple Amp Troubleshooting Techniques You Should Know
Simplifying the Electronics Math
Guerrilla Troubleshooting
Taming the Parasitic Beast

SECTION XI: MODIFICATIONS
Correcting the Vintage Amp Deficiencies
Amplifier Bloopers and Their Corrections
Getting the Tone you Don't Have
Hot Rodding Your Vintage Tubes Guitar Amp for More Gain
What To Do "After" the Blackface Mod
Tweed Deluxe Tone from a Black or Silverface Amp
Harp Amp Secrets and Tips
"Beefing Up" Your Tube Guitar Amp for More Headroom
Converting Your Normal Channel to British
Save that Blackface Deluxe
Adjustable Fixed Bias for Small Practice Amps
Adjustable Fixed Bias for your Non-adjustable Fixed Bias Amp

SECTION XII: AMP BUILDING
Ten Amp Building Tricks
Amplifiers Circuit Layouts
Tube Guitar Amp Power Supplies
Vintage Tube Amp Design Flaws
Voicing a Tube Guitar Amplifier
Conversations for Tone

SECTION XIII: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fender
Gibson
Silvertone
Other American
Marshall
Other British
Speaker Questions Transformer Questions
Miscellaneous

Gerald Weber's Next Phase
A Final Word From The Author
Index