Oct 22, 2020
Once again, guitar amp tech Skip Simmons is fielding your questions on all things tube amp.
This week's sponsors: Amplified Parts (use the discount code TAVA10 when you check out to save 10% off your order!) and Grez Guitars.
Some of the topics discussed on this episode:
6:50 The Truth
About Vintage Amps Patreon Page: New contributions from Jesse
at Acme Instruments
10:00 Trusting a repair tech and what to do with old, removed
parts
12:40 A driver for a horn speaker; dogs chasing golf balls,
Specimen
Audio
19:10 Ceramic fast-acting versus glass fuses
25:56 Putting two single-ended output transformers in series to
make a larger single-ended output transformer
36:56 Solid state watts versus tube watts
39:07 A Garnet G15T Gnome with a 6V6 that fluctuates in time; the
Garnet Herzog
42:56 Fender Super Reverb tremolo disconnect mods
48:09 Employing a Cetron CE-25C photocell tube to make a Theremin
(or something like it)
51:40 More bean talk: Teasdale beans; Instant Pot revisited
56:57 Using two lower-value pre-amp plate load resistors in
series
58:53 Pete Millett's online tube book reference library (link)
1:04:34 Skip's book picks: Patrick O'Brian, Tony Hillerman, James
Lee Burke, Martin Cruz Smith
1:09:43 Gary Gulman's "The Hierarchy of Cookies" (link)
1:10:13 Getting a Gibson "Charlie Christian" EH-150 amp serviced
properly; Orange Drop caps
1:21:30 "Sodder" versus "solder," yet again
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