Tube amp books

[Cliff Schecht]

I've got a ton of cool old tube PDF's. While a lot of these can probably be found on Pete Millett's website (www.tubebooks.org), he has a LOT of books on there and it is a chore sorting through them at times. I figured I would post cool PDF's as I come across them, like the ones below. Lots of neat circuit ideas, preamp pentodes and novel tube choices. The Briggs book covers everything tube amp (including tone controls and pickups) in decent detail.

[brentm]

Wow man. Thanks!!! I was going to ask on here where to get started.. in terms of taking some basic understanding of electricity to application in amps...

Thanks!!!

[jeremyb]

Timely thread, anyone care to comment about this book for the first time builder? http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/075065695 ... 908&sr=8-1

[Merlinb]

Timely thread, anyone care to comment about this book for the first time builder? http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/075065695 ... 908&sr=8-1

This is mainly written for hifi, so its not especially useful for guitar builds. Still interesting though. Check it out on Google books to get a flavour:
http://books.google.com/books?id=uY55VJ ... CDwQ6AEwAA

[camerongrieve]

Thanks for posting those Cliff. I've been to Millet's site before and been bamboozled at the quantity of information there.

In regards to "Building Valve Amplifiers" by Morgan Jones - there's a copy in my tech college that I've flipped through, but it seems mostly directed at the construction methodology, and somewhat angled towards HiFi amps.

Jones has another book which I think is titled just "Valve Amplifiers" that seems to deal more with the theory and design aspects, but I haven't had a look at that.

Personally I have a hard time digesting information on the computer, I much rather have a book to read and refer back to. Printing out the ones Cliff has shared would appear to be a great starting point

Someone here recently recommended "Principles of Applied Electronics" by Ben Zeines which I received recently, haven't had a chance to get stuck into it yet but it looks good.

So much to read :-0

[T Wilcox]

Very cool, Thanks Cliff

Todd

[David Root]

Thanx Cliff!

[Kagliostro]

Thanks for sharing the Book

the first link is ok

the second and the the third download but the files are corrupted

Kagliostro

[yowza]

I'm on a Mac and got the 2nd and 3rd books to download and expand correctly but I had to change the file names to get rid of the underscore and three extra numbers at the end. For example one of the files was named practical_amplifier_diagramstubespart1_502.rar, get rid of the underscore and 502.
The two files should be named practical_amplifier_diagramstubespart1.rar and practical_amplifier_diagramstubespart2.rar and when you unrar them they will open correctly at least they did on my computer.


Thanks for these Cliff!

[tubeswell]

I'm on a Mac and got the 2nd and 3rd books to download and expand correctly but I had to change the file names to get rid of the underscore and three extra numbers at the end. For example one of the files was named practical_amplifier_diagramstubespart1_502.rar, get rid of the underscore and 502.
The two files should be named practical_amplifier_diagramstubespart1.rar and practical_amplifier_diagramstubespart2.rar and when you unrar them they will open correctly at least they did on my computer.


Thanks for these Cliff!

TFT Is there an app for 'un-ara-ing' them? Stuffit expander didn't work on mine (but it could be an old version of stuffit expander)

[M Fowler]

http://ampgarage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9023

Reading material on steroids!

[martin manning]

Thanks Cliff, but my computer doesn't know what to do with a .rar file. Adobe reader doesn't work; says the file is corrupted.

[renshen1957]

Thanks Cliff, but my computer doesn't know what to do with a .rar file. Adobe reader doesn't work; says the file is corrupted.

Hi,

See if you can locate a copy of 7zip, it supports rar files.

Best Regards,

Steve,

PS Thank Cliff, Kudos, too many tube books, to little time.

[yowza]

TFT Is there an app for 'un-ara-ing' them? Stuffit expander didn't work on mine (but it could be an old version of stuffit expander)

http://www.unrarx.com/

[tubeswell]

TFT Is there an app for 'un-ara-ing' them? Stuffit expander didn't work on mine (but it could be an old version of stuffit expander)

http://www.unrarx.com/

Cool! that worked! What a funky old book! Thanks Cliff.