It’s Episode 116 of the Truth About Vintage Amps podcast, where legendary amp tech Skip Simmons answers your questions about guitar amps and how to repair them!
Would you like to be part of the show? Get the amp questions ready for Skip and come to Podcast@fretboardjournal.com! Voice notes or emails are welcome. And don’t forget we now have a Patreon.
This week’s sponsors: Emerald City Guitars, Stringjoy Strings (use code FRETBOARD to save on your first string order), Amplified Parts and Grez Guitars.
This week’s topics:
1:02 Turning small intercoms into amplifiers, Redux
4:01 Potentiometer Adapter Sleeve by Amplified Parts (Link)
8:34 Join our Patreon and listen to a lost episode with Steve Melkisethian (Angela Instruments): https://www.patreon.com/vintageamps
9:19 What you have on your bench: A low powered 1952 Tweed Twin found on eBay
12:00 The word “blackface” is removed from the description of amplifiers
16:10 Alignment of the coupling capacitor, Redux
20:28 Jonathan Stout (see “Pick It and Play It”); “For the Good Times” by Al Green
26:19 Vendors turn on vintage amps with no speaker load
29:55 The best DIY Fender Princeton kits out there; Roasted Cauliflower with Curry Powder, Soursound Transformers (Link)
40:28 Does a lower B+ make an old amp happier?
43:58 How fast could you build a champ? At the Fretboard Summit (August 24-26 in Chicago) and JHS’s Germanium Chef competition (enter by registering here: www.fretboardsummit.org), a board is wired before it is installed in the amplifier
46:59 Chris at Deluxe Amplification (deluxeamplification.com)
50:08 A horse-powered IBM Selectric typewriter (facebook post link)
52:06 Silvertone 1484 amps; in defense of metal film resistors, an upcoming Ampeg documentary, Ampeg Jets and Rockets, the Jackson Audio 1484 – Twin Twelve Pedal (Link), a Guild 66-J amp with a Pyle driver speaker
1:09:20 The Fret Files podcast’s capacitor test (link); the terminology of pickups
Hosted by amp engineer Skip Simmons and co-host/producer Jason Verlinde of Fretboard Journal.
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