It's the 133rd episode of the Truth About
Vintage Amps podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your
questions on all-things-tube amp!
12:28 Grez Guitars sends Skip Quique Gomez & Little Charles
Baty's Cookin' At Greaseland
16:51 What's on Skip's
bench? A 1953 Fender Tweed Pro that needed nearly a complete
rebuild
24:14 One solution for
the multiple Pignose-amp quandary from ep. 132: Radial
Engineering's Shotgun 4-Channel Amp Driver (
Amazon link); 100 Vintage Hawaiian
Songs (
Spotify
link)
30:35 Tom Gunterman's
lithium battery pack picks from ep. 132, prunes
33:51 RIP Gerald Weber
(Kendrick Amplifiers)
35:56 Book recommendation: 'The Birth of Loud' (
Amazon link)
37:39 Jason has a jdflyback handblown tube amp! (
YouTube
link)
40:19 A Fender
Vibrochamp that doesn't like my Les Paul, volume-dropping
45:11 Anything worth
rescuing from old tube car radios?
48:55 A 1569 Altec power
amplifier for guitars? Grange Hall and self-published
cookbooks
53:30 A Music Man 115RP
with a broken reverb
59:17 An update on last
episode's 1972 Fender Princeton Reverb, a homemade signal tracer
(based on
this Kley
De Jong video); 'Designing Tube Preamps for Guitar and Bass' by
Merlin Blencowe (
Amazon
link); tahini; 'Servicing by Signal Tracing' by John F.
Rider
1:04:24 Why can't I pry
this tone pot off of my Harmony H-200?
1:07:10 What does using
a tube pre-amp unit in front of your guitar amp actually do? Tube
swapping a 6V6 or 6L6 (note: we'll get back to this next
week)
1:14:09 Skip's handiwork
on the new Taylor Swift album? (
Instagram
link)
1:17:24 Making a closed
cabinet for my Fender Princeton
1:21:19 Are amp techs
divas?
Hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons and co-hosted/produced by Jason
Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal.