Nov 5, 2024
It's the 140th episode of the Truth About
Vintage Amps podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons eventually fields
your questions on all-things-tube amps!
As always, use all advice at your own risk.
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Some of the topics discussed this week:
2:35 What's on Skip's Bench: A modified ES-150 Charlie Christian
amp with a non-field coil speaker
4:22 Smilin' Skip's: Stuff for Sale
5:15 Loma Rica's Aztec Recording Studio; the Ralph Shine Blues
Band; Skip's new guitar; Sylvia Massy (Sylvia's shop); Weed,
California; the Fretboard Summit 2025 (register here)
18:01 Our sponsors (and baby goats): Grez Guitars;
Emerald City Guitars and Amplified Parts (Jensen
speakers are currently on sale!)
23:42: Alamo and other budget amplifiers; the COVID gear boost has
deflated
25:35 Amp bargains (look for two transformers); a black panel Super
Reverb; Silvertone Twin-Twelve and optocouplers
28:53 The Alembic Pre-Amp in a pedal (or two): Frog Pedals
(link); Sushi
Box FX (link); Mexican
Pizza with Boboli pizza crust; starved plate loads
35:41 PSA: You can buy WD-40 by the gallon
38:22 Should I put the original transformer back in my 1966 Fender Princeton?
44:07 Preferred replacement 12AT7 reverb driver tubes
47:26 Two-prong shock in the studio
50:35 A converted Stromberg-Carlson; speaker-driven effects
channel? Rudy Van Gelder; the usable range of a bright cap
57:55 A Plush 3000G tubes and tremolo with a mystery rectifier
tube
1:03:08 What's with the lettering on my 1950s Rauland Lyric
transformer
1:06:47 Putting a JBL in an Ampeg Rocket 2; a Traynor Studio
Mate
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