Ultimate Tone Volume 1

Want to know about tube amps and how to modify them? I have this book and it is excellent! There is tons of information on tube amp circuitry, this is a must-have if you want to learn about tube amps.


One tube of amp showing basically zero current

My Fender Bassman was showing zero current at idle on one of the two 6L6GC tubes. I knew it was isolated to the socket because swapping the tubes showed the same zero current on the same socket. To make a long story short, the screen resistor (470 ohm) was fried. This is a 1 watt 470 ohm resistor that goes across pins 4 and 6 on the output tubes. The real culprit was a bad tube that would draw too much current.
Replaced the screen resistor and tube and all is good.

The symptoms of the bad tube/burnt screen resistor was low output volume and extremely low/none current across the 1 ohm cathode resistor.

iMazing for OS X – iPad/iPhone

If you have an iPhone or iPad, you need to get iMazing. This app will do a ton of things, but the #1 thing it will do is copy files to your iPad faster than iTunes. I mean minutes instead of hours.
The next thing it will do is browse your iPad/iPhone backups directly on your computer. Need to grab one file in an iPad backup? Now you can instead of having to restore the entire iPad contents.
It’s worth the cost.

iMazing Website

The first book that made me understand simple circuits

I had all sorts of articles and books as well as electronics projects I had tried, but this simple Anderton book was the first one I really understood. For some reason I was able to understand what was in this book. I guess the delivery was really for a beginner.
I still think it’s a great book! Check it out!

DIY Projects for Guitarists!