Apr 2, 2024
No guests or special theme this week...just an all-new, old-school episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps, where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all-things-tube amp.
Want to be a part of our show? Just email us a question or voice memo to podcast@fretboardjournal.com.
Some of the topics discussed:
1:31 What's on Skip's workbench: Valco amps with a resistor and a normal speaker instead of a field coil
3:46 This week's sponsors: Emerald City Guitars, Amplified Parts, Stringjoy, StewMac, Izotope, and Grez Guitars.
5:04 Thrift store: Revere Ware
8:01 What's the deal with this Leslie Model 18 circuit
15:41 Daisy chaining four Pignose amps to a backpack, tuna
salad
20:46 What to do with these orange capacitors? Vacuum Tube Valley,
Mexican Martinis
25:38 Skip has a nice mono hi-fi speaker cabinet for sale
27:07 Do speakers ever go out phase on their own?
28:32 Fender Princeton Reverb vs. Tremolux gain stages
31:22 The truth about vintage Sano amps (gumbo recipe found
here)
35:47 Seventh-grade Skip; the glider that never touched down
40:11 A source for El Pato in Australia (link: productdistribution.com.au)
41:16 Ampeg Jets and Rockets "with the knobs that point straight
up"
43:04 Spotlight on Paradise, California
48:32 Powered vintage speakers, El Pato chili
53:05 Film cap orientation hack and the EH Hum Eliminator/Debugger
58:35 Spotlight on glue
1:03:04 The joys of using lithium-ion batteries onstage to power your tube amps
1:09:43 A 1972 Princeton Reverb that doesn't like a wireless transmitter; a simple fish recipe
1:16:11 How do the dual rectifiers work in the Angela Super Single Ended amp
1:19:17 Rainier beer
1:21:21 Claude Thornhill Orchestra
Hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons and co-hosted/produced by Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal.