The Tube Amp Book - Deluxe Revised Edition Book and Disk Package Spiral-bound Author: Visit Amazon's Aspen Pittman Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0879307676 | Format: PDF
The Tube Amp Book - Deluxe Revised Edition Book and Disk Package Spiral-bound Description
- Spiral-bound: 380 pages
- Publisher: Backbeat Books; Har/Cdr edition (September 1, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0879307676
- ISBN-13: 978-0879307677
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 10.7 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I've been fooling with tube guitar amps for decades. I more or less know what I am doing with them, and I've found most of the information that I want on line. But I thought it would be nice to have a book or two to consult when my wife or daughter was at the computer, when I was tinkering with an amp, or when I just didn't feel like sitting at a desk and looking at screen. Based on its appearance and description, I chose this book. Bad decision.
This book insulted me. I felt used and abused by the author, and that has perhaps tainted this review. I expected a comprehensive and useful guide. That is what this book should have been and what the format and price -and the use of "THE" in the title -- seemed to promise. Instead, I dropped $33 on a big, glossy advertisement for the author's "Groove Tube" tube-selling operation and, by extension, the manufacturers who buy tubes from him.
To make a happy customer, promise less and deliver more. This book went the other way.
Yes, some of the content is useful and interesting, written passages as well as photos. But the section describing amp brands and histories is rendered woefully incomplete as the author veers and swerves through it to make opportunities to refer to himself and his tubes and pimp for the manufacturers that buy from him. (Be wary of authors who never miss opportunities to tell you how important and knowledgeable they are. Quality of content should speak for itself.) Redundancies abound, further wasting the reader's time and valuable space that could have been used to at least mention other manufacturers or give some details about those that deserved more than a paragraph or two.
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