The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons

Ep. 165: "There's an Ethos?"


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Episode 165 of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons tackles all of your questions about guitar tube amps!

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

Want to be a part of the show? Join us by sending your voice memo or written questions to [email protected]! Include a photo, too.

Hosted by amp tech Skip Simmons and co-hosted/produced by Jason Verlinde of the Fretboard Journal.

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