Building Vacuum Tube Guitar and Bass Amplifiers – Volume 1, by Tino Zottola, © 2003
Building Vacuum Tube Guitar & Bass Amplifiers, Volume 1
Ever wanted to build your own tube amplifier from scratch but did not know how or where to start? Tino’s book takes you buy the hand and details amplifier building from start to finish. This interesting book targets beginner builders but is also technical enough for builders of any level.
Volume #1 is a 120 page spiral bound book featuring these interesting topics:
- Chassis construction techniques and secrets to successful soldering
- Troubleshooting non-working amplifiers, fixing unwanted distortion and removing excessive hum
- Minimize building costs by recycling electronic components
- Identifying and testing power transformers
- Identifying and testing audio output transformers
- Resistor & capacitors identification tables
- Vacuum Tube data
Detailed plans are included for the following five vacuum tube amplifiers:
– Sonic (MA1): 3 watts; 12AX7, 50L6 tubes and solid-state rectifier
– All American Four: 4 watts; 2 x 12AV6, 50C5 and 35W4 tubes
– Champ (AA764): 8 watts; 12AX7, 6V6GT and 5Y3 tubes
– Deluxe (5C3): 15 watts; 2 x 6SC7, 2 x 6V6GT and 5Y3 tubes
– Bassman (5B6): 30 watts; 6SC7, 6SL7, 2 x 6L6GA and 5U4G tubes
Construction of the above amplifiers is described in full detail to included; parts list, chassis drilling locations, component installation details, wire-by-wire hook-up, voltage charts and schematics.
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