Tube Guitar Amps

For this follow-up to his popular A Desktop Reference of Hip Vintage Guitar Amps, Gerald Weber has compiled his articles and "Ask Gerald" columns that have appeared in Vintage Guitar from 1993 to 1996. As a special bonus, Ken Fischer's "Trainwreck Pages" from Vintage Guitar are also included. This book assumes that the reader has at least a working knowledge of tube guitar amplifiers, and it will be helpful and interesting whether or not guitarists intend to perform their own servicing.

If you have questions about guitar amplifiers-how to fix them, how to restore them, or how to hot-rod them-this book has the answer. This book is written for the guitarist or collector who desires a common sense approach to understanding the essence of vintage tube amps and vintage tube tone. Not written for engineers, it does not contain engineering formulas, polar mathematic equations, or abbreviations that are assumed you should know. Gerald Weber, a regular columnist for Vintage Guitar magazine, shares the knowledge he has accumulated over the years of repairing and building his line of Kendrick amps.

Ibanez Tube Screamer - The Ibanez Tube Screamer is a distortion effects pedal produced by Ibanez. It is known as one of the first pedals that produced a very warm and creamy overdrive sound (so called tube sound), similar to the sound given by overdriven tube amps (hence the name), without using real tubes.

Woman tone - The "woman tone" is the informal term used by guitarists to refer to Eric Clapton's distinctive mid- to late-1960s electric guitar sound, created using his Gibson Les Paul solidbody guitar (with humbucking pickups) and a Marshall tube (valve) amplifier. It is an overdriven, distorted sound that is thick yet articulate.

Guitar/synthesizer - A guitar/synthesizer (also guitar synthesizer, guitar/synth, or guitar synth) is any one of a number of systems originally conceived to allow a guitar player to play synthesizers. MIDI guitar is often used as a synonym for the field of guitar/synthesis or for a guitar/synthesizer, but MIDI is not involved in every case.

EL34 - An EL34 is an octal tube commonly used in guitar amplifiers. It is characterized by a greater amount of distortion at lower power than other octal tubes such as a 6L6, KT88 or 6550.

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