Tutor
John Mayer
A tutor covering the course's electronics and gain-stage weeks, from the fretboard through to the amplifier's front end.
- Affiliation
- Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
- Contact
- Ask during sessions, or email when a question cannot wait until the next one.
John tutors the weeks where a signal first gets amplified: the string and fretboard’s fixed physical properties, and the gain stages that later push a clean signal toward its headroom. Questions about why a control cavity is wired the way it is, or why a gain stage clips before another one does, are the ones John is most often asked on the bench.
John’s own background is in instrumentation and measurement, which shapes how the bench sessions run — a claim about a control’s effect gets checked against a meter or a plot before it gets accepted as fact.
Consultation: ask during a session first — most questions about a control on the bench are faster to resolve by looking at it together than by describing it in an email. Email for anything that can’t wait until the next session, or that needs a considered written answer.