Books & DVDs

TUBE AMPS 101 or Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Started - DVD
Over 1 ½" hours of video that is like standing over the shoulder of an amp tech for a day, minus the technical jargon. Learn all kinds of tips and tricks, while you watch from your easy chair. This video focuses on an amp that is presented as a 1964 Fender Deluxe Reverb and shows you how to determine its exact date of manufacture. While you go through the test amp you are shown all the things to look for in rehabilitating an old amplifier, things like seeing if the caps are bad and replacing resistors.

Mods, Repairs & Trouble Shooting
A two hour tour using actual vintage amplifiers. Hear the symptoms and watch how to repairs. Volume III includes several takes on transformer replacement, how to resurrect that old garage sale find, including the complete rehab of a '58 Tweed Deluxe as well as amp modding. Watch the famous "PAUL C" mod applied to a Princeton Reverb, add some spank to a Bandmaster or put some fire in the Bass Channel of a '66 Bassman and much more.

Principles of Power
A Practical Guide to Tube Power Amplifier Design
By Kevin O'Connor
Offers a simplified method for designing tube power amps for audio. Tube operation is explained, as are circuit principles. Class-A or B, cathode, fixed bias, and push-pull and single-ended designs are covered, as are many front-end circuits. Includes designs using off-the-shelf transformers and current production tubes. Power outputs of 15 to 400W are depicted using pentodes and true triodes. Also, covers power supplies, selected tube data, and information on Hammond and Plitron transformers.

Volume IV: Noise, Tips and Troubleshooting Chapter List includes:

1. 3 Prong conversion - the RIGHT WAY! (Super Reverb)
2. "Red Plating" Power Tubes ('77 Princeton)
3. Replace a Bad Power Transformer ('79 Champ)
4. Test and Replace Coupling Caps ('57 Tweed Champ)
5. HIGH Noise Floor? (Silverface Deluxe Reverb)
6. Buzzing Noise?