Apr 30, 2019
Twice a month, guitar amp guru Skip Simmons shares stories and
answers your questions on tube amp buying, restoration and repair.
Co-hosted by the Fretboard Journal’s Jason Verlinde.
Submit your guitar amp questions to Skip here:
fretboardjournal@gmail.com or by leaving us a voicemail or text at
509-557-0848. The more questions we get, the more episodes we
record.
Some of the topics discussed on this episode:
:22 Skip and Jason discuss possible Truth About Vintage Amps t-shirt designs (coming soon)
2:55 Jason and Skip discuss the Fretboard Journal (modified) Fender
Champ
4:26 How to install a quarter-inch output into a Champ with an RCA
speaker connector
6:02 Recommended solder
8:00 Our first sponsor - Grez Guitars! https://www.grezguitars.com
10:26 Our new Instagram page! https://www.instagram.com/vintageampspodcast/
10:54 This week's Baffler
12:08 A walk-through of the Fender Champ 5F1 schematic (available online, print it out)
21:10 Wall power fluctuations
26:38 Recommended tube amps for acoustic guitars
33:05 Father's Day and the Tweed Deluxe
36:05 BB King's Gibson Lab Series (solid state) amp
38:26 A yard-sale find pre-war Rickenbaker amp and a dim bulb current limiter
41:14 Stew-Mac's Snufferstick, Part One
44:00 Leaning a tube amp on its stand - good or bad?
46:30 A noisy Fender silverface Princeton
49:26 Boutique amps
51:54 Recommended new components
55:22 Snufferstick, Part Two
59:40 Capturing that Champ distortion with a louder amp (and a shoutout to Tim Foster)
1:03:26 Manitoba's Johnson Sound System amplifiers
1:06:30 Replacing old can power capacitors cleanly
1:15:15 Recommended bigger speakers / impedance for a Fender Champ
1:18:38 Converting an old Hammond AO-39 organ reverb amp to a guitar amp
1:27:15 A 1957 Fender 5F4 Super amp with an original selenium bias rectifier
1:35:13 Skip's record picks of the week
1:38:22 Best position for the three-way ground switch on a Fender
1:40:00 Skip has to return a weed eater
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