Episode 160 of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons fields all of your questions about tube amps.
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Some of the topics discussed this week:
1:09 Fishing and weather report, Tule fog
4:43 Skip’s amp backlog
5:19 A West guitar amp with a Dynaco 454216 transformer, a paper plate breakfast hack
10:45 Our sponsors!
12:56 What’s on Skip’s bench: A 1950 Princeton, a White amplifier, a Tweed Deluxe AND a Vibrolux; Electromuse amps
14:39 The Lonesome Captain’s music video (YouTube link)
17:31 A Webster-Chicago 166-1 with a post phase-inverter tone control
20:36 The Valco/National/Supro single 6V6 with reverb and tremolo
28:06 A Silvertone 1472 with replaced parts; terminal strip grounds
30:55 Two filter cap Princetons (link to TDPRI forum)
32:11 An original Garnet Session Man; modding a Masco ME-27; recommended reading
39:49 The Wood Wire & Volts show; the Benson Babylon (as mentioned on episode 158!)
44:16 Speaker impedance mismatch on a Danelectro amp and its effect on tone, Spanish rice, Goya pasta
50:21 Suggestions for an unused triode in a Geloso G226A amp
54:32 Bill Krinard’s return?; Dr. Z’s new, single-ended PhD amp; Emery Sound amps
57:18 A new speaker for my Traynor YGM-3?; Peavey amps; smoked pork tenderlions
1:03:35 Making a baby Leslie speaker at home and adding caps to filter out EMI/interference (check out more pics on our Patreon)
1:11:00 Getting spray paint off a grill cloth (3M Safest Stripper); fixing a Fender speaker baffle; and a cursed reverb unit
1:16:50 A Cunningham CX322 tube giveaway; Alembic stereo pre-amps, redux
Note: Starting around minute 60, our Zoom connection went bad and Skip can be a little hard to hear. We tried to clean it up as best we could. Sorry!
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Above and below: Listener Bruce’s West combo, with a Dynaco transformer.
