The Guitar Amplifier Player's Guide: An instruction and reference manual for musicians - Softcover

How do you achieve that miraculous amplifier tone that you hear in your head? The Guitar Amplifier Player's guide takes you step-by-step through what creates an amp's tone, and how you can find that sweet spot by making simple tweaks to your current rig. Never before published Speaker Ohms and Power Tubal Tone charts along with a Glossary of Tonal Terms and in-depth discussion of Cords and Cables make this unique guide a must for all players novice and pro. Now with a new foreword by musician Shawn Schollenbruch, the Guitar Amplifier Player's Guide is a must-have for all electric guitar players.

Dave Zimmerman graduated with honors from the University of Washington in 1994 with a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering. His thesis involved analog circuit design using chaos theory, and Dave has been applying nonlinear analysis to award winning electronics and environmental software design for Fortune 500 companies ever since. As the founder of Maven Peal Instruments, he hand-wired over 1,000 amplifiers sporting a new power supply design called the Sag Circuit.