Understanding Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers

By Gerald Weber

Nearly 4 hours of "under-the-roof" essential tube guitar amp knowlege with Gerald Weber

Kendrick Amplifiers President, Gerald Weber, has overhauled and serviced over 15,000 vacuum tube guitar amplifiers, designed dozens of new model amplifiers and has produced thousands of boutique tube guitar amplifiers. This DVD will transform your experience of tube guitar amplifiers forever. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned pro, you will never see tube guitar amplifiers the same again.

Covers:
AC and DC Voltage
AC and DC current
Resistance
Capacitance
Capacitive Reactance and how this affects frequency respsonse
Voltage division and how this principle is used over and over again in an amp
Rectification - half wave and ful wave
Ohm's law and his variations
Vacuum tube types and how they work - Diode, Triode, Tetrode, and Pentode
Preamps and the anatomy of a gain stage
Class A and Class AB difference
Single-ended Output stages - how they work and how to recognize them
Push-Pull Output stages - how they work and how to recognize them
Five types of Phase inverters - advantages and disadvantages of each
Power Supplies - Economy - Half wave, Full wave, & Full wave bridge
Applications of these principles - anatomy of the Tweed Deluxe, Tweed Bassman and blackface Super Reverb
Much Much More!