With Skip’s internet down, we recorded our 98th episode the old fashioned way. Once you’ve gotten past the distorted landline phone, find out how you can win some truly amazing gear (including a new Grez Mendocino Junior guitar…pictured below!) and what inspires Skip, screen resistors on power tubes, in our Episode 100 Center taps on resistors and a damn goat story.
This week’s episode is sponsored by Calton Cases, Jupiter Condenser Co., Amplified Parts and Grez Guitars. You can also use discount code FRET10 to save 10% on your Izotope purchase.
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Some of the topics discussed this week:
:54 The Fretboard Journal 50 (link) …and Issue 1; NAMM shows
6:15 Our giveaways for Episode 100: Win a Mendocino Junior by Grez Guitars; a Madsen Electronics GE Fuzz; or a First Coast Amplification Masco – 5F2A Princeton conversion… also, Josephine Baker was a spy
11:57 What exactly is a variac doing on a quiescent amp?
15:43 A super mic deluxe reverb
17:33 Shield resistors on power tubes: 1 watt resistors vs. 3 watt resistors
22:10 Center taps on power transformers: grounded, tapped or artificial?
26:29 Replacing the rotary off-on switches on Gibsons; Carling rotary switch (Link)
29:45 What inspires Skip
35:23 Skip and the reserve champion’s goat
47:09 How important is the orientation of film capacitors?
53:20 A 1974 Fender Pro Reverb with a noise problem that goes away with the vibrato; Foil-wrapped corn on the cob seasoned with rosemary
59:08 Voltage on the chassis of a two-pronged Harmony H-195
1:03:50 Lightning Music replica cabinets in Marengo, Ohio; Electro-Harmonix Hum Debugger Pedals, Bruce Forman, James “Blood” Ulmer, The Westerlies
1:07:48 The Fretboard Summit at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Oct. 25-27 August 2022 (www.fretboardsummit.org)
1:09:18 Ananyo Bhattacharya’s The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neuman (Amazon link), computer memory vacuum tubes, nixie tubes, Fender Dimension IV Sound Exploder / Tel-Ray goo
1:12:26 The tone of Orange Drop capacitors: polyester versus polypropylene; Spaghetti Bolognese with a sip of El Pato
1:19:25 A Carl’s Custom Amps Octal Princeton that can use either a 6L6, EL34, KT77 or 6CA7… and the difference in wattage
1:23:24 musical instrument insurance; Inheritance Insurance (Link)
1:26:25 Do you need an isolator board for a turret board amp? How to find time to work on amps when you have a busy life and family and other parenting tips.
1:36:22 Homework: How do you add tone controls to a Gibson GA17-RVT?
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The Truth About Vintage Amps is hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons. Co-host and producer Jason Verlinde of Fretboard Journal.
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Above: Drew’s Harmony H-195 listener, as mentioned in this week’s broadcast. Below, the Grez and Madsen Amplification GE Fuzz we’re giving away for Ep. 100
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