Reading Material on Steroids!

[pompeiisneaks]

I'd say adding anything here that would be a good resource for learners would be great, I don't know if the site owner wants hundreds of GB of files up here, but posting some of the most helpful to tube guitar amps would probably be greatly appreciated.

~Phil

[uneumann55]

This book takes you through the amp design process from concept, to design, to build.
It's a look over the shoulder of a designer through the whole process.
The end product is a 100 watt amp and all the design files are posted along with the book description...

https://sites.google.com/site/stringsan ... ier-design

[mkslwsk]

Here's a new link to the excellent Jack Darr stuff:

diyguitarist.com/Misc/J_Darr.htm - dead link

M.

Mod edit: dead link

attached the file from the missing/dead link.
All 1-8 chapters in a single pdf (5MB)

[xtian]

Nice primer on relays by Medhi Sadaghdar:

https://youtu.be/PHcCSZ5nScM

Helped me understand why we add reverse oriented diodes across the coils, and why adding these diodes slows down the switching slightly.

[pompeiisneaks]

Nice primer on relays by Medhi Sadaghdar:

https://youtu.be/PHcCSZ5nScM

Helped me understand why we add reverse oriented diodes across the coils, and why adding these diodes slows down the switching slightly.

Yeah I love his videos, and it was outstanding at explaining the topic as usual.

[Matthews Guitars]

The ARRL Radio Amateur's Handbook, which has been in publication since 1923 and in most years was an annual edition, can be a fantastic tube technology resource.

I recommend picking up copies from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s. Before then, the tube types we use most in guitar amps had not been invented yet, in some cases, and after the mid 70s, there was less coverage of tube technology.

I'd say that any 1960s edition is what you want.

I have a 1963 and a 1970 edition on the shelf next to me.

They provide very clear explanations of basic vacuum tube circuits in the first section. It's GOOD data.

[chaccmgr]

Hope, this is not redundant
http://ampbooks.com/ lots of calculators and theory, very techie sometimes

http://www.geofex.com/gtramps.htm/ very old fashioned site but great information, mostly on effects but great troubleshooting document on tube amps somewhere in the content...

https://sound-au.com/ mostly not tube amp related, but very educative and well explained projects

https://el34world.com/Forum/index.php?P ... tach=89652 a great kind of cookbook to modify preamp circuitry. It used to be on Alan Ratcliff's site but can't be found there anymore

[Pulsonic]

got this one around the time of the death of the PP forum - golden era intel/data & some cool klangfilm shtuff:

http://www.tube-classics.de/TC/Tubes/AudioTubes.htm

AM pls delete if already posted -