It’s the 142nd episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps! Join Skip and Jason as they field all of your pressing guitar amp questions. Plus…recipes, music and book recommendations and more!
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Don’t forget: Deluxe Amplifations’ latest (and final) batch of TAVA El Pato can practice amps can now be ordered on Reverb.
Some of the topics discussed this week:
:00 Jingle Bell Rock and other Christmas classics
1:14 Our sponsors: Grez Guitars; Emerald City Guitars and Amplified Parts!
5:37 Supermarket Sweep; The Office
7:27 The Truth About Vintage Amps Patreon page; listener John’s Angela parts list
8:27 Another Tweed Harvard by Skip?
9:33 Let’s celebrate the TAVA makers; the TAVA Cookbook (Dropbox link)
11:09 A 1970 Davis PA Head with a “tube saver” switch; the Dixon Amp Company (link)
14:17 A Princeton Reverb-inspired amp with a foot switch that won’t stop ticking; Vesper martinis; Body & Soul instruments (link); the $1000 tube lot
22:29 Should I be worried that one of my Silverface Champs draws more amps than the others?
26:27 Which diameter Kester solder?
28:39 Inflatable hot tubs; adding trem to a 5E3 kit; Rotel and cream cheese dip
33:48 Angela Super 6V6 Build tips
36:50 Tolex; Little Charlie’s Rice redux; Jason on Guitar Magic (link)
40:02 Bomb cyclones, a Tweed Harvard serviced by Skip, homemade cranberry sauce, Weber speaker reconing (link)
45:06 Pique hot pepper sauce (link)
46:39 Bell 2325 hi-fi amp with cathode feedback; pepperoni rolls; Andy Williams
55:19 Charlie Hunter’s hybrid guitars with two output jacks; Audio Guild Versatones
1:04:08 Using the reverb driver transformer as an output, Martinelli’s sparkling apple cider, redux; making Mexican crema at home; taking the output of a reverb tank and using it in the normal channel for volume, treble and bass controls on the reverb
1:07:59 Two identical amps, but one sounds crappy
1:09:46 Holiday reading/watching recommendations: Joe Smith’s Off the Record (link); Donald Brosnac’s Guitar Electronics for Musicians (link); the Blue Nile’s A Walk Across the Rooftops; Little Miss Sunshine; Master and Commander; Sampson Boat Company’s Tally Ho restoration videos (link); The Only Girl in the Orchestra on Netflix; Tim Gautreaux’s Same Place, Same Things (link)
Hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons and co-hosted/produced by Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal.
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