Our 100th episode! To celebrate this milestone, this week Skip and Jason will be joined by friends of the show Nels Cline (Wilco), Barry Grzebik (Grez Guitars), Jesse Quitslund (Acme Instruments), Steve Melkisethian (Angela Instruments) and Colleen Fazio (Fazio Elektro). .
We tackle some amp questions, get the first-ever ambient remix of our podcast, exchange views and announce the winners of our 100th episode giveaway.
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:
4:48 Book “California Burning” (Amazon link)
7:05 Special Guest: Nels Cline: Daybreak Seaweed Flakes (link)
8:26 Our TAVA 100 giveaways: A Grez Mendocino Junior; a Skip-modified SF Fender Champion; a Madsen Amplification GE Boost (use discount code TAVA 20 at madsenamps.com); a FirstCoast Amplification-modified Masco-turned-5F2A Princeton (FirstCoast’s Reverb Store); Eric Daw’s new book ‘Solid Sound: 23 Schematics for Wiring Vintage and Modern Single-Coil, Solid-Body Guitars’ (order link)
11:01 Special Guest: Barry from Grez Guitars
11:23 Special Guest: Jesse Quitslund (acmeverb.com)
17:55 Special Guest: Steve Melkisethian (Angela Instruments), a rough tomato season, the Angela SSE amp project
21:52 Special Guest: Colleen Fazio (fazioelectric.com)
26:35 Marty from the Oregon Coast
28:05 Carlsbro amps, Haunted amps
33:38 What does a wattage really mean?
38:29 Ambient TAVA remix by Derek the Cruise Ship Guy; Increasing the tremolo on old Fender amps, pulling the tremolo preamp tube to increase gain, McGohan PA amps
48:14 Building the Angela SSE Amplifier (link to order catalogue/schematic)
53:35 Favorite speakers for Black Panel Fenders, Colleen’s test cabinet
56:26 A philosophical question: What if the modified vintage amp you bought was modified by a genius?; Homemade Hot Sauce, Mica Caps, Replacement Fender Silverface Pilot Light Washers
1:07:19 The amp that Barry runs all his guitars through at Grez’s
1:09:06 Was the Vox AC-30 circuit inspired by a Gibson design? EL34s in early AC-30s
1:12:19 Music recommendation: Crazy Man Crazy by Billy Jack Wills (YouTube link), Martin D-45 by Bob Wills from 1941 (check out Jason in this Emerald City Guitars YouTube video)
1:13:54 How can you tell the origin of a tube by its appearance?
1:18:06 thoughts on putting a vintage transformer in a champ kit; single-ended Hammond output transformers (125 BSE, ESE, etc.); 5932 tubes
1:33:52 TAVA’s most boring or brilliant moments; Laptop to tube amp connections (speaker driven line out from a headphone jack?)
1:36:22 The difference between Top Boost and Bright Switches
1:39:22 The Coriolis effect on electrons in a preamp tube in the southern hemisphere, the Goldentone amp book (Link)
1:40:51 Grid leak bias amp and more headroom for an amp
1:46:57 Barry describes the Grez Mendocino Junior we’re giving away
1:48:08 Special guest Nel’s Cline is back! Nels’ touring amp featuring Wilco, Essen Go, Standels, Hot Sauce and more
2:00:39 Homemade Coconut Rice; Hank Mobley’s “Roll Call” or “Soul Station”; Dexter Gordon; Wynton Kelly’s piano with Kenny Burrell; the best evolution of a champ clone into a filmo sound; “Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns”; Fripp & Eno; Bill Evans’ “Live at the Village Vanguard”
2:08:23 More advice for those who want to build a champ
2:10:15 adding a speaker jack to a Tweed Champ; balanced performance? homemade hot sauce
2:13:53 One last “giveaway”
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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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