The Amp Book


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The Tube Amp Book


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THE TUBE AMP BOOK WITH AUDIO ONLINE ERRATA SHEET ADDED.




Beginner Guitar: The All-in-One Guide (Book & Streaming Video Course)


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Do you know little or nothing about guitar, yet dream of playing for yourself or a crowd of adoring fans? Beginner Guitar: The All-in-One Guide will set you on the path to turn that dream into reality. Written in plain language, with photos, illustrations, audio examples, and over an hour of online video instruction to guide you, it’s like taking a beginner guitar course from the comfort of your own home, on your schedule. Designed with you in mind Beginner Guitar will take you step-by-step through everything you need to get started playing today, from describing different types of guitars and equipment, how to choose and care for your instrument, as well introduce you to some of the many techniques and styles of playing. We’ll start with the basics, and by the time you’ve finished, you’ll have a firm foundation in guitar and a skill set that will enable you to play hundreds of popular songs. Let your curiosity guide you Start anywhere in Beginner Guitar and skip around to your heart’s content. Each section will guide you through everything you’ll need to become a confident player. You choose where to place your focus and when. We’ll provide the instruction, photos, diagrams, audio, and streaming video instruction to make it easy! It’s everything you need to get started For the price of a single guitar lesson, you’ll get everything that most private instructors teach in the first couple years of lessons: • Learn to play chords, including power chords and progressions • Discover how much fun it can be to use tablature, read notes, and play by ear • Learn the best ways to practice to get better faster • Try out various playing styles—country, rock, folk, jazz, blues, and classical • Practice fingerpicking techniques • Learn how to care for your instrument, change strings, and tune • And much more! Experience you can trust The Missing Method for Guitar is dedicated to creating high quality instructional materials that inspire and empower all levels of guitar player, from absolute beginners to professional guitarists. Author Christian J. Triola has a BA in Music (Jazz Studies), a Master’s degree in Education, over a dozen published guitar books, and 20+ years experience teaching hundreds of students of all ages to play guitar. It’s time Join the millions of people who have discovered the joy of playing guitar. Download your copy and get started today!




The Guitar Amp Handbook


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The Guitar Amp Handbook: Understanding Tube Amplifiers and Getting Great Sounds, Updated Edition brings fresh information to the table to help guitarists understand everything about what makes their amps tick and how to use them to sound better than ever. It builds on the popular original edition of the book, first published in 2005. Central to the book's success is the way it walks musicians through the significance of each crucial circuit stage and component of a great number of classic and modern tube amp designs, helping guitarists get the most from the amps they already own or choose new amps that are best suited to their needs. The Guitar Amp Handbook reveals many of the tips and tricks used by today's top designers and builders, and it debunks the hype used by the marketing departments at large manufacturers keen on selling specific amps that might not be right for particular players. The book is designed to help guitarists understand what really goes on inside tube amps and where the tone comes from. This new updated and expanded edition adds further knowledge to the foundation, ensuring it continues as the most thorough and authoritative publication on the subject to be found anywhere.




Op Amp Applications Handbook


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A complete and up-to-date op amp reference for electronics engineers from the most famous op amp guru.




AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages


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Engineer naturally lean web pages and leverage the latest web platform features to dramatically boost page speed About This Book The first book for web developers that shows how to put AMP to work Improve your website's mobile experience and get more traffic Practical methods to achieve a step change in performance quickly and easily Who This Book Is For This book is for experienced web developers who are aware of the impact of slow-loading web pages on conversion rates and user engagement, and who are seeking to serve content to their end users in a rich and enticing way using the Accelerated Mobile Pages framework. You should be familiar with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JSON. What You Will Learn Build, validate, and deploy AMP pages Create interactive user notifications, navigation menus, accordions, contact pages with forms and maps Monetize your traffic with a variety of ad styles and providers Analyze your traffic by integrating analytics providers and tracking user-behavior along several dimensions Embed social media with amp-youtube, amp-instagram, amp-twitter, and amp-facebook Build e-commerce functionality including product pages and shopping carts Deliver rich media experiences using AMP custom elements Use advanced deployment techniques to extend functionality Install ServiceWorkers and build Progressive Web Apps for offline use In Detail Google introduced the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project to give mobile users lightning-fast response times when accessing web pages on mobile devices. AMP delivers great user experiences by providing a framework for optimizing web pages that otherwise would take much longer to load on a mobile platform. This book shows how to solve page performance issues using the mobile web technologies available today. You will learn how to build instant-loading web pages, and have them featured more prominently on Google searches. If you want your website to succeed on mobile, if you care about SEO, and if you want to stay competitive, then this book is for you! You will go on a mobile web development journey that demonstrates with concrete examples how to build lightning-fast pages that will keep your visitors on-site and happy. This journey begins by showing how to build a simple blog article-style web page using AMP. As new concepts are introduced this page is gradually refined until you will have the skills and confidence to build a variety of rich and interactive mobile web pages. These will include e-commerce product pages, interactive forms and menus, maps and commenting systems, and even Progressive Web Apps. Style and approach Get step-by-step instructions to build web pages of different types, gain expert tricks to brand your pages without bloating them, and see methods to embed advertising.




Modern High-end Valve Amplifiers


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Explains the whys and wherefores of toroidal output transformers at various technical levels, starting with elementary concepts and culminating in complete mathematical descriptions. In all of this, the interactions of the output valves, transformer and loudspeaker form the central theme. Next come the practical aspects. The schematic diagram of a valve amplifier often appears to be very simple at first glance, but anyone who has built a modern valve amplifier knows that a lot of critical details are hidden behind the apparent simplicity. These are discussed extensively, in connection with designs for amplifiers without output powers ranging from 10 to 100 watts. Finally, the author gives some attention to a number of special valve amplifiers, and to the theory and practice of negative feedback.




The Complete Guide to Guitar and Amp Maintenance


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(Book). From the author of Amps! comes an essential survival guide for every guitar player and amp owner. Packed with concise, clearly written tips on troubleshooting and repairs, this guide teaches the secrets of maintenance and fixing it yourself, with straightforward, step-by-step instructions using simple, affordable, readily available tools. The book focuses on the most commonly performed procedures, and contains over 150 photos and insider information from technicians, engineers, and roadies.




The British Amp Invasion


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Although rock 'n roll is America's all-time leading cultural export, half of the classic rock sound – hard-hitting, skintight, audacious, and vibrant – was born across the pond. Musician, journalist, and writer Dave Hunter's The British Amp Invasion: How Marshall, Hiwatt, Vox, and More Changed the Sound of Music charts the forty-plus year confluence of British industrial ingenuity and popular culture that grew a minor “also-ran” offshore industry into a true world leader. Art inspired engineering, engineering influenced art, and, as both evolved at breakneck speed, the finest amplifiers in the world were devised and refined on the British Isles. The symbiotic relationship born of this partnership produced the most powerful music ever known to mankind – a sound that still resonates today in the most literal sense possible. Hunter's original account provides a ground-level perspective of the simultaneous development of an adolescent audio industry and a nascent musical style, documenting their twin struggle to find their footing and stride forward. Rich with behind-the-scenes accounts and high-resolution images of the era's greatest (and highly collectible) amplifiers, many of which have never been told or seen before, this book is a welcome addition to the libraries of audio aficionados, guitarists, bassists, and other musicians, classic rock fans, collectors of vintage gear, and anyone with an eye for fine photography and an ear for compelling histories.




How to Hot Rod Your Fender Amp


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This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of getting the best sound possible out of their Fender amp with simple and advanced modifications. These include essential and fundamental tips like selecting tubes, capacitors, pots, and other electronic equipment, as well as biasing and setting up your amp. It also covers great hot-rodding enhancements to give you the tone of the pros at your fingertips, such as making one channel into an overdrive channel, modifying tone controls, making one channel either a Marshall or Vox channel (changing preamp and tone arrangement—not a permanent, destructive mod), building splitter boxes to run two amps simultaneously, creating splitter speaker setups within one amp, building the perfect gig amp (something light and portable, but with big sound, like an early Mesa Boogie), and more.