Reddit reviews The Tube Amp Book
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Reddit reviews The Tube Amp BookWe found 4 Reddit comments about The Tube Amp Book. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
One resource is /r/diyaudio. It's mostly hi-fi enthusiasts, but there are lots of tube lovers and instrument amps are very welcome there.
You might be interested in The Tube Amp Book. It has the schematics for hundreds of guitar amps - you can clone pretty much anything you want from that book. One of my favorite suppliers of parts is Antique Electronic Supply. They carry almost everything you need to build a guitar amp.
If anyone is interested in building hi-fi gear, from amps to DACs to speakers, please stop by /r/diyaudio. If you have woodworking tools, you can build some amazing projects. DIY gear is as good as or better than a lot of commercial audio gear. You can build high-end speakers for a fraction of the cost of the commercial stuff. Building the cabinets is usually the hardest part, and woodworkers already know how and have the right tools. The rest is easy.
Get this book if you really want to learn more. I'm still working my way through it.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Tube-Amp-Book-Hardcover/dp/0879307676
Learning "everything" about amps would require an EE degree or a shit ton of reading and hands-on building/repair.
For how they work and effects and stuff, Dave Hunter is great at explaining these things and wrote a couple of books pertinent to this exact topic.
Dave Hunter. With bonus Champ/Princeton clone build instructions in the back.
Honestly, building an amp will help most, but if you could find a schematic of the Mustang 3, that would help.
Oh, learn to read schematics.
Most major manufacturer amps these days use PCBs and for the lower end amps, surface-mount components, though there are some things in them you can still mod/repair.
It might be helpful to dig through the Fender Amp Field Guide to work through the history of how Fender got to the Mustang 3 amp.
Other possibly useful resources:
Aspen Pitman.
Read the reviews. It's a good book, but it's not a "how to" for amps.
Robert C. Megantz.
Specific to tube amps, but it got great reviews.
TAN. User forum for the Two Stroke amp in Daves book.
AX84. High gain, low wattage open-source amp.
Fender Amp Field Guide.
The Amp Garage.
EL34World.
Red Circuits.
Vintage Amps Forum.
Watts Tube Audio schematics.
Schematic Heaven.
You learn by experimenting and studying other amps. Merlin's books are very good.
merlin's books
Also there is another book that is
Tube amp handbook
and
Tube amp book
As for forums, ultimate guitar's diy section, and harmony central. amp garage ect. There are a ton of forums dedicated to just building amps.