It’s the 79th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast: Red plating tubes, amp rattles, Louisiana hayrides, bad advice, coaster brakes, and Blues Juniors!

This week’s episode is sponsored by ,  and .

Some of the topics discussed this week:

:59 Reverb tank bag surprises

2:09 Recommended NYC repair techs? the case of the missing Telefunken GZ34

3:52 Dickey Betts’ Bassman head

6:39 Schroeder’s Shoe Repair in Sacramento

8:31 Skip’s old band, New Departure

14:38 ; Discord coming soon!

19:07 The

19:14 Amp horror stories for our Halloween episode?

22:13 What to do with a busted Blues Junior? Dumble’s Tweedle Dee amp at Emerald City Guitars

27:22 How does Fender’s 6G15 wet signal work?

30:24 What to do with a 1983-ish Fender Concert 2×10 and a ‘81 Pro Reverb?

38:04 A Fender Twin Reverb with one red-plating 6L6

42:27 Masco MA-25N tremolo idea: A Danelectro/Silvertone 6AU6 circuit?

44:49 ’50s Fenders with underpowered power transformers; clipping the C3 cap in a Blues Junior, soldering guns, and single-amp speaker driven reverb

1:01:11 A Hickok tube tester up for grabs, still; a TEAC A7010 reel-to-reel

1:02:56 Negative feedback on a 1968 Fender Princeton

1:07:57 An Ampeg Gemini II roadtrip; troubleshooting a rattle

1:16:03 The soundman’s pencil hack; ;

1:20:10 Don’t listen to Neil Young; the interactive volume control on a Tweed Deluxe

1:23:00 Re-creating the Louisiana Hayride in Norway: What kind of PA should I get? ()

1:29:36 Skip’s Bob Will’s PA

1:32:29 Tommy Tomlinson’s mystery amp, a Rickenbacker M-15; Ray Massie; Baxandall circuits; Magnatone Triplex

1:37:37 Insulating input and output jacks on builds (and when not to insulate)

1:41:43 A Stage Right tube amp blowing a fuse; replacing diodes

1:45:37 Putting a Tweed Vibrolux circuit in a non-reverb Silverface Princeton

1:48:00 Getting Earl Yarrow or Louie Garcia on TAVA

1:54:25 Amps with a pre-amp tube mounted to a circuit board and power tubes mounted to the chassis; Gibson GA-20T, Epiphone Century

1:56:33 Replacing a broken tone pot on a Filmosound 385

2:02:55 The end of our lo-fi era; Skip’s new Shure MV7

2:04:48 Mike Watson’s 6L6s ()

Co-hosted by the Fretboard Journal’s Jason Verlinde.

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Above photo: Lupe’s signature thanks to listener Øystein (@). Below: Tommy Tomlinson loading his amp (mentioned at 1:32:29 on this week’s show).

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