Circuit Analysis of a Legendary Tube Amplifier: The Fender Bassman 5F6-A, Second Edition | 
|  | | | Title: | Circuit Analysis of a Legendary Tube Amplifier: The Fender Bassman 5F6-A, Second Edition | | Author: | Richard Kuehnel | | Publisher: | Pentode Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 05 November, 2005 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0976982218 / 9780976982210 | | List Price: | $39.95 | | Amazon Price: | $39.95 | |
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This book moves beyond general principles of tube amplifier design to carry out an intense examination of one of the most famous circuits of the rock era. The book begins with the 5F6A's relatively simple triode preamps (bypassed cathode resistor, unbypassed cathode resistor, and cathode follower) and then progresses through the mathematically challenging tone stack, long-tailed-pair phase splitter, and push-pull power amp. Every formula for every tube is derived in all its gory detail. The author's methods include the classic load lines and composite characteristic curves of Frederick Terman and the Radiotron Designer's Handbook as well as more modern techniques like linear regression and the Discrete Fourier Transform. Special attention is paid to quantifying the push-pull amplifier's nonlinear response and to analyzing power supply voltage sag as it reacts over time. This expanded, second edition includes an enlarged, fold-out schematic of the Bassman and a new chapter on the Marshall JTM45, which is almost a direct copy of the 5F6-A. The Bassman 5F6A circuit has inspired guitar amplifier designs for over four decades, so sharpen your pencil, fire up your calculator, and find out what makes this amp rock!
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Customer Reviews:
• Must Have For People Who Build/repair Tube Amps 23 February, 2007
The 5F6-A is considered the mother of all guitar/bass amps from past till present. It took me to read this book before I understood why.
This book reveils the genius/craftmanship of Leo Fender and doesn't stop there. As most tube amps are altered copies of this particular one, the information is usefull for everybody who wants to keep their amps in good shape with respect to great tone...
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1CJZMZY8IQAKL
• Outstanding! 28 November, 2006
This is a book for anyone serious about circuit analysis.
Why is this book important? The 5F6-A circuit is important pedigree of most great tube amps. The techniques (if not the direct analytic results and conclusions) can be applied to almost any guitar tube amp design. If you are serious about designing or building guitar amps then you need to get this book, you won't be disappointed.
Important in Kuehnel's approach "understanding" not just cold analytic analysis (although that is there as well, and it is superb). In most cases he presents and analyzes a simplified equivalent circuits to provide insight and intuitive understanding, then he follows with a complete soup-to-nuts analysis.
Each stage of the 5F6-A circuit is rigorously considered as a separate subsystem and the results are eventually integrated and summarized. This allows one to skip around and explore the book in the order of topics that interest them.
As engineering books go this one is very readable, but it might be difficult for anyone that does not have formal training in electrical engineering (or the like) or is not otherwise a serious student of analytic techniques.
- Reviewed by customer ID: APFXJN7G3C09A
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