The Fender Bassman 5F6-A Family of Preamplifier Circuits—A Wave Digital Filter Case Study

W. Ross Dunkel; Maximilian Rest; Kurt James Werner; Michael Jørgen Olsen; Julius O. Smith

The Fender Bassman 5F6-A Family of Preamplifier Circuits—A Wave Digital Filter Case Study

W. Ross Dunkel, Maximilian Rest, Kurt James Werner, Michael Jørgen Olsen, Julius O. Smith

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Abstract

The Fender Bassman model 5F6-A was released in 1958 and has become one of the most revered guitar amplifiers of all time. It is the progenitor of a long line of related Fender designs in addition to inspiring Marshall’s first amplifier design. This paper presents a Wave Digital Filter study of the preamplifier circuit of 5F6-Abased amplifiers, utilizing recent theoretical advances to enable the simultaneous simulation of its four nonlinear vacuum tube triodes. The Dempwolf triode model is applied along with an iterative Newton solver to calculate the scattering at the 25 port R-type adapter at the root of the WDF tree. Simulation results are compared to “ground truth” SPICE data showing excellent agreement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
Editors	Pavel Rajmic, František Rund, Jiří Schimmel
Place of Publication	Brno, Czech Republic
Publisher	DAFx
Pages	263–270
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	2413-6689
ISBN (Print)	2413-6700
Publication status	Published - 05 Sept 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	19th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects - Brno, Czech Republic Duration: 05 Sept 2016 → 09 Sept 2016

Conference

Conference	19th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
Abbreviated title	DAFx-16
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Brno
Period	05/09/2016 → 09/09/2016

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awarded best paper number three

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Werner, K. (Participant)
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DAFx Best Paper Number Three
Dunkel, W. R. (Recipient), Rest, M. (Recipient), Werner, K. (Recipient), Olsen, M. J. (Recipient) & Smith, J. (Recipient), 05 Sept 2016
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Dunkel, WR, Rest, M, Werner, KJ, Olsen, MJ & Smith, JO 2016, The Fender Bassman 5F6-A Family of Preamplifier Circuits—A Wave Digital Filter Case Study. in P Rajmic, F Rund & J Schimmel (eds), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects., 53, DAFx, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 263–270, 19th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects , Brno, Czech Republic, 05/09/2016. <http://dafx16.vutbr.cz/proceedings.html>

The Fender Bassman 5F6-A Family of Preamplifier Circuits—A Wave Digital Filter Case Study. / Dunkel, W. Ross; Rest, Maximilian; Werner, Kurt James et al.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects. ed. / Pavel Rajmic; František Rund; Jiří Schimmel. Brno, Czech Republic: DAFx, 2016. p. 263–270 53.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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The Fender Bassman 5F6-A Family of Preamplifier Circuits—A Wave Digital Filter Case Study

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