Tune in for a new chapter of TAVA, where Skip and Jason Zoom through your tube amp and cooking questions with our highest fidelity yet (thanks to our friends at Shure for sending us an MV7… and to Mrs. Simmons for figuring it out).
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Some of the topics discussed this week:
:31 Skip puts the trem in the PA head
1:50 RIP Pat Martino
4:08 Green El Pato enchilada sauce
6:19 Swapping the 6C4 for a 6J6 on a Bogen CHB-50
10:05 A Magnatone vibrato pedal
12:58 A Princeton Reverb clone with a single-note rattle
16:00 Glossary according to Skip: Bypass cap; Baxandall, bright cap
23:17 A late ’50s Epiphone Century aka Gibson GA-20T in disguise (see our Instagram)
26:23 More on amp hum
28:21 A ’56 Fender Champ or a ’60?
31:07 Shoutout Bob at Brookwood Leather (link)
32:14 New boutique amps worth seeking; McClostone; Hamstead
37:23 Typewriters, again
38:24 Giveaway: A La Tosca accordion
39:36 Jason’s plan to keep the typewriters typing (free business idea); They Might Be Giants ‘Book’ (redux, link)
42:48 Finding a clean tone American amp in Norway; silverface Twins
45:49 Why does the primary impedance run high on 6L6 tubes on PA heads; repairing vintage transformers
50:45 Why amps in the ’80s and ’90s got power transformer replacements; Gibson GA-1RT (YouTube link)
55:10 Looking for a Danelectro Virtuoso schematic; what to do with an butchered amp with no available schematic; Sierra Nevada Old Chico beer
59:36 Guitarist Bobby Eli; the sound of Philadelphia; Vinnie Bell; ‘A House on Fire’ (Amazon link)
1:02:18 What happens in a tube amp?
1:05:57 Guitarist Pasquale Grasso
Co-hosted by the Fretboard Journal’s Jason Verlinde.
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