Tube amp building web links

[tubeswell]

Thought I'd put some of these up as a kind of resource reference. (these are my favs from the last few years)


Starting with the 'new' ampage site

http://music-electronics-forum.com/home.php


AX84 - a must for DIYers

http://ax84.com/


Merlin Blencoe's site:

http://www.freewebs.com/valvewizard/index.html


Fender vintage amp info

http://www.thevintagesound.com/ffg/


Another essential schematic site:

http://www.schematicheaven.com/index_HTML.htm


And another one (with good info on Marshall schemes and a few more tube datasheets:

http://www.drtube.com/marshall.htm


Hoffman's site:

http://www.el34world.com/schematics.htm


The Dumble and Trainwreck forum

http://ampgarage.com/forum/index.php


The SLO Clone forum:

http://www.yesterdaysrevolt.com/sloclone/index.php

(Where I got the idea for this: http://music-electronics-forum.com/t9416/ )


Steve Ahola's excellent resource:

http://www.blueguitar.org/

(One day he will post my C30 SLO mod and give me credit for the idea - bah humbug)


R.G. Keen's most excellent site (also lots of stuff on guitar FX:

http://www.geofex.com/


Another great FX forum:

http://freestompboxes.org/index.php


Adam's Tone Stack Page:

http://amps.zugster.net/articles/tone-stacks


Tone Lizard:

http://www.tone-lizard.com/Table_Of_Contents.htm


Randall Aiken's excellent tube-tech FAQ

http://www.aikenamps.com/


John Broskie's (for nerdy techs):

http://www.tubecad.com/


UK Electronics Club - great theory of power supplies etc:

http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/index.htm


An even nerdier Neets site

http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/14178/index.htm


Ditto: (excellent eduction material)

http://mysite.du.edu/%7Eetuttle/electron/elecindx.htm


Leading to the Radiotron Designers Handbook 4th Edition download mirror

http://headfonz.rutgers.edu/RDH4/


handy quick tutorial on Output Transformers and reflected loads

http://www.radioremembered.org/outimp.htm


Pete Millet's excellent tube datasheet resource

http://www.pmillett.com/tube_data.htm


And this UK site - a back-catalogue of almost every vintage tube ever made

http://www.r-type.org/


Frank's (awesome) tube data site

http://tubes.mkdw.net/index.html


There are so many damn sites I don't know where to stop so I will.

Edit: Oh yeah - forgot about Jack Darr (excellent intro to guitar amps - SS and tube)

http://www.pacificrecone.com/JackDarrBook.html


And this guy's page

http://home.pi.be/~pin00958/amp_links.htm


And this:

http://www.harpamps.com/site2/dr._z.php

[jeremyb]

WOW! Thats a comprehensive list, theres a few more in: http://www.nzguitars.com/forum/viewtopi ... 41&t=12126