1: Power Supplies -- 2: Pickups, Volume and Tone Controls -- 3: Small-Signal and Low Power Amplifiers -- 4: Solid State Power Amplifiers -- 5: Guitar Effects Circuits -- 6: Vacuum Tube Amplifiers -- Appendix A: Selected Tube Characteristics Curves -- Appendix B: Useful Formulas and Equations -- Appendix C: Vacuum Tube Operating Principles
Summary
This book is written for the guitarist that would like to know how transistor and vacuum tube-based amplifiers, and how various circuits effects work. The main thrust of the material is old school analog circuitry, including heavy coverage of discrete transistors and diodes, classical filter circuits, and vacuum tube-based amplifiers. This book should be useful to electronics hobbyists, technologists and engineers that are interested in guitar-related applications
