The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons
Once again, guitar amp tech Skip Simmons is fielding your questions on all things tube amp.
This week's sponsors: Amplified Parts and Grez Guitars.
Some of the topics discussed on this episode: 2:05 Skip checks out a Paul Bigsby-built tenor guitar, free stuff sent to your favorite podcast hosts 14:06 Revisiting Grez Guitars' pickle jar hack 15:13 Grounding 101 22:27 Antique Electronics Supply/Amplified Parts' Tolex sample packs 26:13 Advice on Ampeg M-12 / Mercury amps 29:16 Drawing a schematic from scratch 33:30 "Two Words:" A vintage Marshall baffler 35:34 Mis-drawn schematics revisited: The UREI 1176 Compressor 39:10 A 1960s Honda 305 Scrambler project 42:42 6L6G tubes in a 5E6 Fender Bassman? 47:29 RIP: Classic Tone transformers 48:32 Adding an isolation transformer to a Harmony H400A 52:44 Meatloaf on a grill 56:23 Cleaning grill cloth or Tolex 59:07 Stokes and Paul C mods on a Fender Princeton 1:03:29 Converting a Masco MA-50 and MA-17; Skip has a Gibson Falcon for sale 1:08:28 Guitarists versus harmonica players 1:09:12 Functional differences between spade connectors and soldering for speaker leads? 1:13:36 Turning a Conn ST-6 strobe turner into an amp... or something 1:18:02 Keeping corn tortillas intact while rolling enchiladas
Recorded November 2, 2020.
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