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This is a great dissertation on how to modify and change guitar amp preamp circuits to your liking. I don't remember where I found this on the internet; I've had it for several years. If you know who wrote it let me know and I'll give credit where credit is due. – Attila

Given the renewed interest in tube amplifiers, it's likely we're going to start seeing more books and kits expressly designed for experimentation. Kevin O'Connor, author of "The Ultimate Tone", is coming out with a book of such projects in the very near future. The audio world is way ahead of us guitarists, as they already have a great many kits for both valve preamps and entire amps.

While we're focusing on distortion producing circuitry, nearly all of the general principles apply to lower gain amps, like Fender Twins, and the clean channels of modern guitar amps. A Mesa-Boogie is really just a Fender amp with a couple of extra gain stages.

I'm gonna deal primarily with increasing gain, though reading this, you'll get some knowledge of altering tonal response through capacitor changes. .......... for more info download your copy from : http://ratcliffe.co.za/sundry/Modify_Preamp_Circuitry.pdf


Ps thanks goes to Alan for hosting the download

Peace .... Attila
    Well, the mesa rectifier series is now far from being a fender clone. It cloned the Soldano (same as peavey 5150 which changed the tone stack driver), which was a clone of marshall on steroids, and marshall was a clone of......um.....oh yeah a fender. ?

    Originality somethings comes from failing to copy/clone ?
      bottledtone wrote: Well, the mesa rectifier series is now far from being a fender clone. It cloned the Soldano (same as peavey 5150 which changed the tone stack driver), which was a clone of marshall on steroids, and marshall was a clone of......um.....oh yeah a fender. ?

      Originality somethings comes from failing to copy/clone ?
      Not all Marshalls come from F3nd3r amps. The 1974x circuit for one was ripped off from the Watkins Dominator (F3nd3r fanbo1s can't say nuffin about that one) and most fender circuits (the early ones at least) were ripped off (paid for maybe) from another company. So yeah, shoulder of giants and all that.
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