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Description: This is the home page for the Tone Lizard website, an insightful guide to the facts and fantasy surrounding the building, maintenance and use of Guitar Amplifiers built with Tubes or Valves as they are known in Europe.
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The mere ‘fact’ that you have found this website, and you are reading this page, tells me a few things. You are a curious sort, and one who may like to ‘tinker’ with tube guitar amplifiers. You are also probably as befuddled as I am by all of the surrounding hyperbole regarding what makes vintage guitar amplifiers sound ‘better’ than today’s offerings. Where do a lot of these old wives tales come from? Some folks pay no mind to the myths and misinformation (most are benign in nature), while others cannot ig
For me, putting up this website serves a multitude of purposes. First of all, it gave me an opportunity to address the issues confronting my attempts to offer custom-built guitar amplifiers to the local players. While I am not the most gifted engineer, I still have enough horse sense to figure out that whether my cabinets are made of pine or poplar would have little bearing towards the tone of my amplifier. For some players though, because they read an article in a guitar magazine or on the Internet stating
In the end, I believe I have achieved my goal. This website is full of information. Some of that information is aimed squarely at debunking some of the prevalent myths, while other tidbits are shared just to help you get a solid foundation on the ‘vintage’ philosophy behind tube electronics. I’m quite happy with the result. What I want you to do as you absorb each segment to this web site is have the following philosophy guide you. By having a good background in seemingly disparate areas, we can become not
Antique Radio Information and Links, Antique Airwaves
The Strat Monger