It’s episode 165 of the Truth About Vintage Amps podcast!
Thank our sponsors: Grez Guitars; Emerald City Guitars; and Amplified Parts / Mod Electronics.
Some of the topics discussed this week:
00 Jason and Nigel
6:26 Our sponsors!
10:42 A letter, two beers, some washers, and a crossroads: Follow Joe here and on Instagram
17:10 1967 Fender Princeton Reverb project with a replaced power transformer; a shorted reverb transformer
31:36 A baffler: Two kinds of hum
36:16 What are “getter” and “wings”? The Barkely Marathon (Wikipedia)
40:31 Has anyone put the tweed Princeton tone circuit in a guitar? swaddled meat is tender meat, cast iron
44:15 A Fender Super Reverb that kept blowing fuses; the 1972 Sacramento Farrell’s Ice Cream parlor plane disaster (Wikipedia)
53:33 Federico’s pizza dough recipe on the TAVA Patreon; the Tone Quest Report; Tin Can Valley Letterpress
55:08 Replacing the foam gasket on my Traynor YGM-3 reverb’s tank; Vacaville’s Pacific Hardware
1:00:04 Rickenbacker M-11 thoughts; King Sunny Ade
1:04:51 What’s on Skip’s bench: Slim Dossey’s Tweed Bassman and another Bassman
1:08:59 Skip’s potential barn sale ponderings
1:12:29 Once an amp has replaced caps, do you still need a Variac? rice balls
1:15:28 Skip still needs a wooden Epiphone Electar Zephyr schematic (all-octal tube with vibrato) schematic!
1:17:01 1964 Fender Princeton 6G2 with non-working trem
1:20:16 Adding a stereo headphone jack to a Princeton clone
1:24:04 Jenson transformer website schematics (link)
1:27:38 What should I do with this untouched 1976 45-watt Fender Pro Reverb?; cornbread
Above: Listener Matthew’s Rickenbacker M-11.
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