It’s the 79th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps podcast: Red Plating Tubes, Amp Clatter, Louisiana Hay Rides, Bad Advice, Coaster Brakes, and Blues Juniors!
This week’s episode is sponsored by Jupiter Condenser Co., Amplified Parts, and Grez Guitars.
Some of the topics discussed this week:
: 59 Reverb tank bag surprises
2:09 Recommended NYC Repair Technicians? the case of the missing Telefunken GZ34
3:52 am Dickey Betts’ bassman head
6:39 Schroeder’s shoe repair in Sacramento
8:31 am Skip’s old band, New Departure
14:38 The Truth About Vintage Amps Patreon Page; Discord is coming soon!
19:07 TAVA’s big index page
7:14 p.m. Horror stories for our Halloween episode?
10:13 pm What to do with a broken blues junior? Dumbles Tweedle Dee Amps at Emerald City Guitars
27:22 How does Fender’s 6G15 wet signal work?
30:24 What to do with a 1983 Fender Concert 2 × 10 and an ’81 Pro Reverb?
38:04 A Fender Twin Reverb with a red coated 6L6
42:27 Masco MA-25N tremolo idea: A Danelectro / Silvertone 6AU6 circuit?
44:49 ’50s fender with underpowered power transformers; Cutting off the C3 cap in a Blues Junior, soldering guns, and speaker-controlled single-amp reverb
1:01:11 Still a Hickok tube tester; a TEAC A7010 roll-to-roll
1:02:56 Negative feedback on a 1968 Fender Princeton
1:07:57 An Ampeg Gemini II road trip; Troubleshooting a rattle
1:16:03 The sound engineer’s pencil hack; Make a magazine; Rust magazine
1:20:10 Don’t listen to Neil Young; the interactive volume control of a Tweed Deluxe
1:23:00 Recreate the Louisiana Hayride in Norway: What kind of PA should I get? (YouTube link)
1:29:36 Skips Bob Wills PA
1:32:29 Tommy Tomlinson’s Mystery Amp, a Rickenbacker M-15; Ray Massie; Baxandall circuits; Magnatone triplex
1:37:37 Isolating input and output jacks on builds (and when not to isolate)
1:41:43 A Stage Right tube amp blows a fuse; Replace diodes
1:45:37 Install a Tweed Vibrolux circuit in a Silverface Princeton without reverberation
1:48:00 Earl Yarrow or Louie Garcia on TAVA. receive
1:54:25 amps with a preamp tube mounted on a circuit board and power amp tubes mounted on the chassis; Gibson GA-20T, Epiphone Century
1:56:33 Replacing a broken sound depot on a Filmosound 385
2:02:55 The end of our lo-fi era; Skips new Shure MV7
2:04:48 Mike Watsons 6L6 (Link)
Co-hosted by Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal.
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Photo above: Lupe’s signature thanks to Øystein (@ronningsrep). Below: Tommy Tomlinson is charging his amp (mentioned at 1:32:29 on this week’s show).
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