Ep. 107: "Nip It In the Bud"

The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons

Episode 107: The genius of Garnet founder "Gar Gillies," Fender reverb controls, fixing Magnatones, and more.

**Want to meet Skip? He'll be at the January 14-15, 2023 Amigo Bay Area Guitar Show with stuff to sell (and also picking up amps that need to be serviced).**

Some of the topics discussed this week:

3:00 Deluxe Amplification's El Pato Tone Amp (Reverb link)

7:19 El Pato, cottage cheese with salsa, Sacramento's music instrument lending library "MusicLandria" (link)

11:09 Silverface Champs: Change just the tone stock or also increase the value of the plate resistors, the Garnet book (link)

17:23 Speaker load revisited

21:25 A 12AU7 instead of a 12AT7 in a Princeton Reverb; gochujang Korean pepper paste, kimchi

26:45 Fender reverb unit controls, explained; hybrid Vox 7-series amps; the Aclam Dr. Robert pedal (link); impedance redux; the life of a vacuum tube

34:45 What's oozing out of Magnatone M-9's wires?

42:29 Why does my Pepco (Garnet! Canada!) amp use two 6AV6 tubes and only half a 12AX7, instead of a whole 12AX7 and a 6AV6?

46:18 Vintage bass amps for actual bass players?

56:01 16 or 18-gauge zip cord for speaker wire? heat shrink for splicing

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