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Ep. 137: "Walk Around the Yard"
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It's the 137th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all-things-tube amps! This week, we talk to special guest, Steve Carr of Carr Amplifiers!
Want to be a part of our show? Just email us a question or voice memo to podcast@fretboardjournal.com.
Our sponsors: Emerald City Guitars, Amplified Parts, StewMac, and Grez Guitars.
Don't forget, we have a Patreon page. And come to the 2024 Fretboard Summit.
Some of the topics discussed this time around:
2:22 Steve Carr (Carr Amplifiers) joins us for an enlightening talk about prototyping, speaker cabs, Solen caps, tone controls, and so much more. He even fields a few of your questions!
1:14:17 Big M speaker cabinets
1:16:08 Red Norvo "In a Mist"
1:17:49 Did a rubber tube amp mount just fix my microphonic amp? Easy Brussels sprouts
1:21:45 On the bench: An Epiphone Electar Zephyr
1:23:16 Pre-amps in front of amps that already have pre-amps; the WEM amps used at Live at Pompeii (link); Selmer reverb tanks; was this Philco amp made by Bogen?; pizza stones
1:31:55 Out-of-range potentiometers
1:35:05 Ballast resistors in field coil amps Plus Hurdy gurdys and more.
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Manage episode 435155842 series 2481534
It's the 137th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all-things-tube amps! This week, we talk to special guest, Steve Carr of Carr Amplifiers!
Want to be a part of our show? Just email us a question or voice memo to podcast@fretboardjournal.com.
Our sponsors: Emerald City Guitars, Amplified Parts, StewMac, and Grez Guitars.
Don't forget, we have a Patreon page. And come to the 2024 Fretboard Summit.
Some of the topics discussed this time around:
2:22 Steve Carr (Carr Amplifiers) joins us for an enlightening talk about prototyping, speaker cabs, Solen caps, tone controls, and so much more. He even fields a few of your questions!
1:14:17 Big M speaker cabinets
1:16:08 Red Norvo "In a Mist"
1:17:49 Did a rubber tube amp mount just fix my microphonic amp? Easy Brussels sprouts
1:21:45 On the bench: An Epiphone Electar Zephyr
1:23:16 Pre-amps in front of amps that already have pre-amps; the WEM amps used at Live at Pompeii (link); Selmer reverb tanks; was this Philco amp made by Bogen?; pizza stones
1:31:55 Out-of-range potentiometers
1:35:05 Ballast resistors in field coil amps Plus Hurdy gurdys and more.
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