Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)I am new to guitar amps, but not to electronics. This book appears to be a collection of instructive magazine articles that appeared over many months or years. Each chapter would have been a separate article/issue. Thus, the chapters fail to build upon each other as one would expect in a more formal book. Consequently there is excessive repetition, always beginning from the most basic level, even well into the book. The result is much less information than could have been included in such a thick book. One example would be explaining the difference between AC and DC on page 120. The book often lacks schematic drawings. Thus the author describes (for example) a bridge rectifier in words but fails to provide a circuit drawing. I would have expected more schematics in this sort of book. Another annoyance the author's habit of referring the reader to his other books for certain procedures, such as adjusting a tube bias. I would have expected a 529 page book devoted to tube amplifiers to include such procedures.
On the positive side, the book is highly readable with only a few copyediting errors, and I'm reasonably certain that I now know more about guitar amplifiers now than I did before.
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From the amp guru, and columnist for Vintage Guitar magazine, comes a future classic that features more than 60 easy-reading chapters de-mystifying the complex world of tube amplifiers. Over eight years in the making, it covers the basic knowledge and the practical steps to work on this type of amplifier, the preferred type of amp for millions of guitarists and technicians.
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