Episode 108: It’s like a best-of episode, but all new! Preamps, typewriters, too many kitchen tricks, transformer talk, Jason misreads the tubes and we’re even getting a little artistic!
Some of the topics discussed this week:
2:53 Now, does Skip want to see your amps? See Skip at the Amigo Bay Area Guitar Show on January 14-15, 2023
4:59 A Tweed Pro with a variable inverse feedback control
5:45 Lee Jeffriess in Issue 51 of the Fretboard Journal (Link); Watch Jeffriess and John Munnerlyn perform Blues for Earl
11:22 The TAVA Seattle meeting on December 31, 2022 (thanks for organizing @liquidnyo); YouTube’s jgflyback shows off his tube-powered watch (shaky Instagram live footage)
13:50 This week’s sponsors: Grez Guitars has a new longscale bass!; Amplified Parts (Hammond products are currently on sale!); Iztotope (use Fret10!); AND Stringjoy strings. Plus… Josh Scott (JHS) joins TAVA to talk about Kemper, the TAVA El Pato-Tone Practice Amp (reverb link) and our Patreon page
20:56 The resonance of a fully loaded tower board; assembly of components in a head vs. combo; goop
28:25 microphonics in a tube amp (the good kind); David Lindley (support him with t-shirt sales here)
30:04 Why were so many power transformers replaced in the 70’s and 80’s?; Spokane, Washington; Jason’s favorite noodle joint in Spokane, Washington (Link); a very modified Gibson Les Paul Junior with a fan
36:03 typewriter keyboards; ‘Taggart’, a Scottish police series from the 80’s
39:58 Should I change the transformer on my Bruce Zinky Fender Prosonic head? the effect of an output transformer on the sound
45:46 What’s the deal with the Fender Bantam bass amp?; the oven instead of the stove; Ham and bacon tails
50:39 rebirth of a dead Peavey Deuce II; putting a Vox-style preamp circuit on an amp with 6L6s; Cheese Quesadilla Hacks
54:06 Correcting uneven distortion on my dad’s Gibson GA-9
56:53 Why isn’t my 1967 Fender Twin Reverb as loud as my other Twin Reverb?
1:00:05 Arts & Humanities Corner: The Albert Barnes Collection of Postmodern Art, ‘Art of the Steal’ (Link); Skip goes back to Harvard; RIP poet Charles Simic (read “Stub of a Red Pencil” here)
1:04:06 Chopped onions, chickpeas and black beans sautéed in a pan
1:06:18 What would you do with my bow CHA-33 PA head? carrots roasted in coffee (Link)
1:12:13 Replacing the preamp tube (and speaker) in an Epiphone Model 101
1:19:47 What to do with this 1953 Revere T-100 reel-to-reel?
1:31:48 Skip likes the new Fretboard Journal (Issue 51, link)
Taken on January 10, 2023.
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The Truth About Vintage Amps is hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons. Co-hosted and produced by the fretboard journal’is Jason Verlinde.
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