![]() Some of the topics discussed in this episode: 2:32: This week's sponsors: Emerald City Guitars, Stringjoy Strings (use the code FRETBOARD to save 10% off your first string order), Amplified Parts, and Grez Guitars. Don't forget we now have a Patreon if you'd like to support the show featuring weekly installments of what's on Skip's bench, random eBay finds, and surprise content. Want to be a part of the show? Keep the amp questions for Skip coming to ! Voice memos or emails are welcome. It's the 119th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all things tube amp. Submit your amp questions, recipes, and life hacks to and don't forget to share the show with friends on social media. Support us on for added content and the occasional surprise and don't forget to get a subscription to the Fretboard Journal (link). Hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons and co-hosted/produced by Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal. 10:30 Donny Hathaway plays "The Ghetto" (YouTube link) Skip brings a Tweed Deluxe back from the dead (and possibly a Princeton Reverb), lousy amp repair people 16:22 A Fretboard Summit recap a transitional Gibson Falcon find 21:40 An Ampeg SVT CL that sounds sort of like the opening to the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" when you turn it on 24:46 Offshoot amp brands we can spot in the wild 26:43 Magnifiers, redux! Recommended: YOCTOSUN Head Mount Magnifier on Amazon (link, on sale for just 16 bucks right now) LED garage lighting (Costco link) 29:55 How do self-split output stages work? Kalamazoo KEA amps 32:30 Help me make sense of this Bell PM33 Pacemaker schematic 37:53 Speaker-driven line out and reverb, together a Seattle TAVA meetup? an Oregon Coast TAVA meetup at Pelican Brewing? 41:01 Skip's contraband riding lawn mower 49:01 Is this the Fender Yale? John Peden's Sidetrack Liner Notes podcast (Apple Podcast link: ) 53:05 Kate Wolf Eminem 56:25 Transformer windings and tomato gravy 1:02:12 The Silvertone 1484 TwinTwelve input section Fender Musicmaster Bass amp mods 1:06:17 The Gibson tone-sucking circuit in the GA19RVT Falcon (Instagram link) Recorded August 31, 2023. Don't forget we now have a Patreon if you'd like to support the show featuring weekly installments of what's on Skip's bench, random eBay finds, and surprise content: Some of the topics discussed in this episode: :00 Fretboard Summit recap (thanks, Kevin!) a gift of Del Cabo mangos Rob Abernathy's robots () our sponsors (Emerald City Guitars, Stringjoy Strings (use the code FRETBOARD to save 10% off your first string order), Amplified Parts, and Grez Guitars. Use the code LABOR10 to save 10% off your order, but act fast. This week in a nutshell: Is this the Fender Yale? lots of Fretboard Summit love Skip sneaks a mower across the border magnifiers tomato gravy and rumblings of a possible Oregon Truth About Vintage Amps meetup! Special Note: Our friends at Amplified Parts are having a Labor Day Sale right now. Which would you go for? Yeah, I know there are a bunch of other options but let's keep comparisons to these two since they are both local and available to me.It's the 120th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all things tube amp. But not enough of a difference that a massive drop in tone would be ok.Īs for tone, I'm looking for something with *some* clean room so I can throw a pedal up front. But the other two purposes might be suited better to just a couple more watts and a bigger speaker. As far as practice goes, it doesn't matter. The only two things that have me considering the musicmaster is the bigger speaker and the slightly higher watts. But it still comes out cheaper and has an Altec Lansing vintage 12" in there which is nice. The mods seem a bit hackish and probably will need a little bit to clean up. Plus the musicmaster, though cheaper, has been modded all to heck with three eq knobs and a standby switch. ![]() What has come on to my radar is a local silverface champ, and a local musicmaster. Purposes are for practicing, very small quiet gigs once in awhile, and studio amp. I'm looking for a small, cheapish, vintage combo.
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