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Interesting sites and places on and off the net, concerning tube amps, their use, their sound, and their maintenance.

Information and Schematics	on the net
Books
Hammond Mfg.	on the net
Yorkville Sound Ltd.	adresses
Mailing-list	on the net
Vintage Guitar Site	on the net
Shops	on and off the net
Tube suppliers	addresses
Dating	amps by parts

Information and Schematics on the net	vivaAnalog this page has a lot of info on Pete Traynor and his amplifiers: http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/ BackStage (Joe Piazza's WorldWide Web Page) Found a nicely drawn schematic of a Traynor Model YGM-4 Studio Mate at: http://home.rochester.rr.com/piazza/Amps/ygm4.gif There was a very nice image of a 1974 Yorkville Traynor YGM-4 Studio Mate at: http://www.servtech.com/~piazza/joepage/home/AmpImages/image005.h.jpg AXEIST HOME PAGE Information about tube amps (Fender, Ampeg, in general); mods, maintenance etc. at: http://members.aol.com/axeist/axeist.html Musical Instrument Tube Amp Building, Maintaining and Modifying FAQ Information on building or re-building hi-fi equipment, as well as it was originally intended, of musical instrument amplifiers: http://www2.aros.net/~tboy/htac/faq/tube_amp.html Guitar Amplifier Tone and Effects Placement About amps, and all issues around: http://www.serv.net/~hoff/guitar Duncan's Amp Pages Featuring links to schematics, tube and speaker data, software, links to circuits etc.: http://duncanamps.simplenet.com Jazz Guitar Pages - Tube Amps Amps for Jazz, advantages and disadvantages of tube amps, and maintenance: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3612/tubeamps.html Traynor Tweaks a site dedicated to the modification of Traynor tube amps http://www.kilback.net/traynortweaks.htm Schematics at Schematic Heaven Schematic Heaven has a new 'Unlimited Bandwidth' site that hosts a MUCH larger compliment of schematics than any other FREE download site on the Internet. New schematics are continually added. To date [April, 2006], the site has well over 1500 unique Amplifier & Effect schematics. www.schematicheaven.com Schematics at Prowess Amplifiers Tons of tube amp schematics (taken from www.schematicheaven.com). prowessamplifiers.com/schematics COOL SCHEMATICS Lots of tube amp schematics www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/tom/schematics.htm YBA-1 Chronicles The evolution of these amps http://bmj-amplifiers.com/yba-1.html

Books	The Tube Amp Book By Aspen Pittman The Amp Book By Donald Brosnac Inside Fender and Marshall Tube Amps By JC Maillet, easily one of the most knowledgeable Traynor and Garnet amp fans I know. Check it out at www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/ifmta.html I've spent a few hours pouring over the contents and am fascinated by his Fender and Marshall mod ideas as well as the deep analysis of their circuits. Great stuff! It's amazing! JC really puts my local tech to shame... Tube Amp Biasing Kevin O'Connor explains all this in much more detail in his books - particularly The Ultimate Tone Volume 2. You can get this book and others from http://www.londonpower.com/pwr-book.htm

Hammond Mfg. on the net	Address http://www.hammondmfg.com/index.htm

Yorkville Sound Ltd. adresses	On the net http://www.yorkville.com Canada Yorkville Sound 550 Granite Court Pickering, Ontario Canada L1W3Y8 Phone: (905)837-8481 Fax: (905)839-5776 Email: yssales@yorkville.com USA Yorkville Sound Inc. 4625 Witmer Industrial Estate Niagara Falls, NY USA 14305 Phone: (716)297-2920 Fax: (719)297-3689 Email: ysusa@yorkville.com Outside Outside Canada & USA Yorkville's manufactured products are represented by independent distribution companies. Yorkville has current representation in over 30 countries. Check out our Distributor Listing [at yorkville.com] for more information on the distribution of Yorkville's products outside Canada and the United States.

Mailing-list	On the net There's a fairly quiet email list about Traynor amps, set up by Aaron Turner. Running under OneList now, you can take a look at it at http://www.onelist.com/community/traynor-amplifiers You may also post a message to the list at traynor-amplifiers@onelist.com subscribe to the list at traynor-amplifiers-subscribe@onelist.com or contact the list admin at traynor-amplifiers-owner@onelist.com

Vintage Guitar Site on the net	Address http://www.vguitar.com/vguitar.htm

Shops on and off the net	Toronto Song Bird Music 801 Queen Street West Toronto Ontario M6J 1G1 Phone: (888) 733-4777 Phone: (416) 504-7664 http://www.songbirdmusic.com Long & McQuade Musical Instruments (The ancestral home of Traynor amps. The downtown Toronto store:) 925 Bloor St. W. Toronto, Ontario M6H 1L5 Phone: (416) 588-7886 Fax: (416) 532-9708 Email: bloor@long-mcquade.com http://www.long-mcquade.com Long & McQuade Musical Instruments 2777 Steeles Ave. W. (at Keele) North York, Ontario M3J 3K5 Phone: (416) 663-8612 Email: lmstl@long-mcquade.com http://www.long-mcquade.com Long & McQuade Musical Instruments 1133 Markham Road (at Ellesmere) Scarborough, Ontario M1H 2Y5 Phone: (416) 439-8001 Email: lmscar@pathcom.com http://www.long-mcquade.com Long & McQuade Musical Instruments 380 Simcoe St. S. Oshawa, Ontario L1H 4J3 Tel: (905) 434-1612 Email: l&m@oix.com http://www.long-mcquade.com Long & McQuade Musical Instruments Kingspoint Plaza 370 Main Street North Brampton, Ontario L6V 4A4 Phone: (905) 450-4334 http://www.long-mcquade.com Encore Music (probably the richest source) 40 Danforth Rd. Richmond Trading Post 151 Chruch St. Ottawa Song Bird Music 388 Gladstone Avenue Ottawa Ontario K2P 0Z1 Phone 888.733.4999 613.594.5323 http://www.songbirdmusic.com Used Sound (My favourite place to buy Traynors, a small grubby store - often crowded and stuffed with old equipment - but occasionally there are bargains.) 226 Preston Ottawa, ON K1R 7R2 Phone: (613) 594-5449 http://www.usedsoundmusic.com Peterboro Ed' Music (had a few the last time I was there) Hamilton Guitar Clinic The Guitar Clinic in Hamilton [that used to advertise Traynors for sale] has closed it's doors to the public. The concentrate on making 'F' basses and Hammertone guitars exclusively. [Feb 2003] Cornwall Ontario Gilles Grignon's site at Rainbow Music ([...] A source for old Traynors [...].) http://www.rainbowmusicshop.com/used.html Andy Fuchs' Custom Modifications Fuchs Audio Technology designs, manufactures, and modifies tube musical instrument and audiophile amplifiers. http://www.fuchsaudiotechnology.com

Tube supplier addresses	Angela Instruments at www.angela.com Postal address: Angela Instruments 10830 Guilford Road, Suite 309 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 USA Phone: (301) 725-0451 Fax: (301) 725-8823 Email: Steve@Angela.COM Triode Electronics at www.triodeel.com Postal address: Triode Electronics Inc. 2225 W Roscoe St. Chicago IL 60618 USA Phone: 773-871-7459 Fax: [773-]871-7938 Email: ned@triodeel.com (tube and parts sales) Email: jim@triodeel.com (new and used audio equipment sales) Antique Electronic Supply at www.tubesandmore.com Postal address: Antique Electronic Supply 6221 S Maple Avenue Tempe, AZ 85283 Phone: 602-820-5411 Fax: 800-706-6789 (U.S. and Canada) or 602-820-4643 Email: info@tubesandmore.com The Parts Connection at www.sonicfrontiers.com Canada Svetlana EL-509/6KG6 Tubes (Russian 6pi45c) for [US] $13.50 each at http://www.kwtubes.s5.com [May 2002] The Tube Store There's an online place called www.thetubestore.com that looks good, is also based in Hamilton, but is a mail order tube store that deals world wide... selection and prices look very good!

Dating amps by parts	Ned Carlson at Triode Electronics A list of commonly seen EIA codes seen on US made transformers, speakers, and other parts, with a explanation of date codes. http://www.triodeel.com/eiacode.htm Vintage Guitar Info dating vintage guitars and amps by source-date code http://www.provide.net/~cfh/pots.html Weber Vintage Sound Technology there is also a little info at the Weber Vintage Sound Technology homepage at http://www.webervst.com/codes.html

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