The BEST Mod for your Vintage Amplifier
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
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I'll bet the neighbors are relieved you finally found a 5 watt amp to rip through. Lol. Sounds great.
I would pay so much to be his neighbor and hear him crank that huge fender stack. Take all my money
That opening riff was a cross between RHCP and The Black Crowes - NICE ;)
Hey Scott, this is the best video I have seen you do! $trat sound great through that amp...they say the sweet spot on 5 watt amps are set three to 4 on volume...with guitar rolled back... Really nice too on middle pickup...now my brother designed 57 Champ RI, I have two of them...one with Oxford ,8 in/ 4 ohm and run with same size extension cable with 10 inch with a resitor to keep !e at 4 ohms...now my second one is in a Bread Box that I made into an amp cabinet....I have run that one on to a Tremolux 2-10 Cabinet...also a 6-10 Dan Electro/ Jensen P10Q Silvertone Cabinet and a 4-12 CATS cabinet...you will be amazed how 5 efficient watts of tube power can drive those speakers...try PLUGGING YOUR GIBSON INTO YOUR BEHEMOUTH 2-15 FENDER CABINET...ADD A RESIYOR IN PARALLEL GET IT TO 4 OHMS AND SEE HOW THZT LITTLE GIBSON RUNS THOSE 15'S...YOU Will NE AMAZED!!!KEEP CHASING The TONE...YOU GOT A WIMNER WITH THAT GUBSON AMP...
jimi_ jam_ Fer sure
I heard some soul to squeeze too but bluesier
@@benasslick67 yeah he started playing Soul to Squeeze and then went somewhere else with it into the Rolling Stones land. Every time he picks up that tele he's playing Stone's stuff on it...lol
Sounded like the Allman Brothers to me ear
The low end flub can be fixed in a few ways. When I started building classic tube amps I was doing it on a budget. I would start off with building a classic schematic and play through it. I found alot of the old circuits since they were designed to be basically clean amps and a warm clean tone depends of strong bass to make it sound full. The problem is when you start pushing the amp it starts getting flubby. One culprit would be an old speaker which the cone has just gone flacid . But since that is a new warehouse the problem is in the circuit. I haven't looked up that circuit but changing the coupling cap(s) to a smaller size will act as a high pass filter blocking the lowest lows. Sometimes I have added caps on the input as well as the coupling cap(s) between the stages. Also another way to add a bit of crisp and balls is cathode bypass caps. The smaller the bypass the more crispy. Fender generally used a 25uf if you change your bypass to a 10uf or 5uf it will tighten the bass. Sometimes those old amps didn't even use bypass caps. In which case you can get flub. There is also a bright cap you can add across the volume which really helps at lower volume but has less effect the louder you turn the volume but tubes seem to get edgier with volume increase. Honestly every time I have built exact from a schematic of a vintage tube amp of 15 watts or less I had to tweak the amp to taste with a few components. It makes a huge difference.
Bro I got shocked so bad one time it knocked me unconscious and threw me about ten feet across the room. The rest of the band said that I screamed and made a sound like an animal. I don't remember any of it except for plugging in my guitar feeling the shock and then waking up. I'm pretty sure I almost killed myself.
If it's like a Champ, that 8-10 watts could still drive at least a 212 cabinet - just run two 8 ohm speakers in parallel, this will give you a 4 ohm load.
This will overcome the flubby speaker breakup you speak of, and give you the full sound of this amp with more depth. Then you have more sounds and a very useful little rig.
Or even a 2 x 10" is a drastic improvement over the 8" unless its just for pickin around the house.
Dude that Tele and amp had incredible tone. What a find. Good job not trying to ask too much from the amp and moding everything in it. Well done
Nothing beats the tone of a stratocaster.
Getting shocked, I remember playing with a couple kids from school, the guitar plugged into an old Twin and a bass into an Ibanez amp on the same power source. Touching both guitar and bass made you an electricity bridge
I have a '78 SF Vibro Champ. Already had it gone over and it needed was a tube and a couple of caps and resistors replaced. Next up is a WGS speaker upgrade.
The most important mod (repair) is to change out ALL of the capacitors, The dialectic in capcitors dries out and degrades leading to bad biasing on the vacuum tubes and could fry out your power transformer also.This being a 59 means don't even power it up till the capacitors are changed out. Get a device to tell which lead on the capacitors is the shield lead and mark it. (new capacitors don't mark the shield lead like older capacitors did...)
I love little amps like this. So much tone...
you inspired me to buy a used fender amp.i installed an alnico 5 neck pickup in my squier strat and man I can't believe the tone I now have that awsome fender chime...thanks...peace
New speaker really sweetened and warmed it up!
I notice you have that same perfectionism thing I have and most musicians do as well! It raises my blood pressure but so worth it when it's right. I noticed it on your descending A Dorian progression your fingers weren't flinching a inch! Your a great musician with great taste and feel, you have a excellent ear and a great tone choice. As with me that one negative comment on one flubbed note eats away at me all week, then I realized its probably some 45 year old guy in his moms basement with no musical background, cheeto dust on his chest with iron maiden posters from 1989 on his walls.
That little amp sounds great. I got an old Fender Bronco amp that I am about to replace the tubes and speaker and bring it back to life
I have the same amp, 1966. Best sound I get is running a MXR Analog Delay. Rock on!
My little Tweed Champ (same 5F1 circuit) has the prettiest cleans with single-coils and the volume around 4. Get it up to ten (out of twelve) and the thing is so much fun.
Edit: having my little Silverface Champ recapped right now and some of the mods fixed up that were on it when I bought it. Still had the original electrolytics, but a Jupiter speaker when I got it.
I have loved every champ I played
Wow, I didn’t know Warehouse was making an 8” Alnico - Very sweet indeed!
When I was 14 I dreamed of a Peavey Bandit. Peace 🌴
Right there with you, Brother. Made do with a Rage and some big ass stereo speakers for a long while 😂🤘
Dan Kelsall my first amp was a peavey classic. Loved it. Almost as heavy as a twin. Then went to GK250 ML loved that too. Now I’m playing thru a Jackson Ampworks Newcastle 30; love again.
My first amp was a 70s Peavey Half Stack solid state.... I was stuck playing Stoner metal. I learned how to roll the volume back on my Stratocaster and then I started playing the blues a little bit better on it even though it was a solid-state amp.
Hey they are cool too!!
My godson actually still has my old Rage. I plugged it into a Randall 4x12 for giggles. Little thing actually sounded pretty damned good😂👍
Geez, wasn’t really loving the Tele through that, but then you plugged in the strat my god. It has beautiful scooped mid sound. Wonderful
The Tele sounds good and, as usual, so does the workhorse! The undercover Champ seems to deliver just about anything put in it very well... in the meantime I'll be tuned in to the '69 Strat breakdown!
Oh Matt’s growing up and learning bigger is not always better.
*When talking about amps*^> that is..• ie champs” deluxe’s, music masters, blues jr’s 1,2,3,4’s and some I’m not telling you about!” ;). Next time the boutique amps. Just kidding. Maybe..
Crispy, punchy, and full sounding. It's catching all the nuances. Great playing , too!! Thanks!!
Love the way you played with it driving and then cleaned it up by playing with a light touch. I really liked the sound before the changes though. I guess I am weird. The strat clean, wow, I would love to hear it in the room. I know you hear the rattle and stuff, but I like it, that’s rock and roll!
I've owned a few champ style 5 watt amps in the last 20 years starting with Fender and then a Victoria 518, loved the 518 but wanted a champ with a tube reverb. Bought myself a retirement present 3 years ago, a Swart Atomic Jr. It's the ultimate champ if you can afford it, glad I got it while they were still affordable.
how are u not wickedly famous dude.... u definitely have the talent
im working on it
lots of soul to squeeze vibes on that intro!
Success! Gotta love them old amps...
I'm a big fan of the WGS smooth cone speakers. I have both a 12" in a DRRI and a 10" paired with a ribbed cone in a 2x10 Cab. Ribbed for pleasure of course.
Cool video. Might be fun to try it with an external cab loaded with a 10" or preferable 12" speaker to show the difference.
dude, that tone is righteous and nasty in the best possible way. you got it down, man. love it
5 watts of Fat tone
5 Watts of fattone
5 watts of Joey Fatone
5 watts of "it's gonna be me"
That INTRO!!!
I have a 1946 Gibson br6 I rebuilt, all stock except the output transformer and speaker. Transformer is a 20watt and speaker is a permanent magnet celestion. Sounds great.
Have you tried a "brown Box" to reduce the voltage input closer to what the amp was designed around? I would use one just to protect the original transformers and keep the design voltages closer to spec and the tone ain't bad either.
not a brown box but. I just bought a voltage reducer
I am in love with that tele!
Takes me back to 1965
I tell ya I don't know how many times I've been nay sayd when I tell people those old Jensen's were hit or miss I put a better speaker in my 64 Ampeg and it just came alive Loud too One of the best upgrades on the old amps Very cool Matt
Wow ! Man the diff. is like day and night and that Tele is sounding great as the Strat as well of course . We will see ya in the funny pages my man peace out.
My stepfather owned a tv repair business way back in the day.When I would get into trouble at school I would have to travel to the business and test tunes all day on a tube tester.Throw the bad ones on 1 box and the good ones in another box.Back when the Beatles came out 1964.
15 to 20 hours on that driver and you'll hear more of everything. Cool vid
I could watch you play for hours dude
Excellent tones man! That WGS alnico speaker sounds amazing. If you need and NOS preamp/poweramp tubes hit me up. I've got plenty of RCA that are period correct as well.
Man that would be slick
Got a 57 in 70.....my first amp.still original
very cool. great amp
Strat has killer tone but the Tele was meant for the little Gibson!!!
I have that same amp, I sounds amazing
Agree, Matthew. Changed the tired Oxford in my '64 BF Champ for a Weber. Also replaced the 5Y3 with a Weber Copper Cap for a bit more juice. Read Cesar Diaz did that with SRV's amps.
Nice tone!
Indeed
My whole life i`m playing Strats,but that Telecaster...just WOW!!!!
Man I love the sound of that '59 burst.
Thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks for shedding a bit of light on those warehouse Alnicos, that 8" sounds excellent, imagine if you could get a 10" in that box?
“The latest show”,wow.Matt now your rehashing.I’m glad you told us you upgraded your amp cable.geez I was worried!
Have to say the Tele and amp play well together the Strat also very soulful... ii didn't mind the 8 in Jensen either. Lots of music in that amp.
Thanks for all your effort.
Cheers
Doug 😎
This is your best sounding amp IMHO . It records better too. Just needs a splash of plate reverb post recording and that’s it.
So beautiful !!
The Gibson Skylarks are amazing little amp as well. Giggable 12" speaker and and excellent drive tone as well as cleans.
As expected the tone of the amp came alive with new parts.
Sounds great Matthew.
I could listen to you all day brother.
Old enough to remember when local drug store had a tube tester and inventory in locker underneath. And the old timers understood the technology. Clean tones and bite when needed, thnx
I remember.When I was really young I worked in an electronics repair shop.I tested more tubes than you can shake a stick at.
My dad used to pull all the tubes out of our TV when it failed. Then he'd put 'em all in a cigar box, hand me a $10 bill, and off I went on my bike to the drug store to test the tubes on the machine and get whichever ones needed replacing. Back to the house, put the tubes back, turn the TV on, and we're done I did that more times than I can count. Only one time there was a blown out capacitor, and my grandpa came over and fixed that. Nothin' to it!
The amp sounds great, along with the great guitar work!
Sound fantastic, see the monolithic dual showman in the background!
I have a Champ 600 with mod caps, wiring, etc. Sounds amazing now. Waiting to swap original Fender to Eminence speaker 🎸👍😃
Great upload, man. The intro jam was very cool, as was that riff around the 4min mark. That tele suits rather well, with those different flavors coming out and all...
Cheers
Please you gotta make a video playing this amp with your Junior and your Melody Maker! They're meant to be together!
I really Dig these small Amps and that one sounds real nice so Peace out and Rock on Brother.✌️😁✌️
I really enjoyed the sound from the beginning of the video. If that was the ‘before’ I liked it much better. Nice playing!
After 20 to 30 hours of playing the speaker would sound even better!
Changing to a three-prong power cable has no effect on the sound, of course, and is always a very good thing to do, but changing the speaker makes it an entirely different amp, for better or worse. Often slightly out-of-spec components in an amp make the amp sound better with more character than new components. I, too, love this amp.
A good Tele or Strat played by a good guitarist makes almost any amp sound good.
love WGS speakers!! put an ET65 in my Peavey Classic 30, huge tone upgrade, totally awesome!
That's a Great Update! Well done and thanks for sharing brother!
Be Well Matthew!
I'd probably re-cone or repair that little Jensen, its a decent speaker for the amp.
my opinion is i like your cushions
Honestly I thought it sounded better with the jensen speaker - Love your channel and playing
When it doesnt distort it sound close to the guitar tones from like a rock by segar atleast with the bridge pickup on the tele, with the strat it almost sounds like a two rock but without the headroom when you dig in
I have a 1960 GA-8t . same blonde tolex . someone converted it from the original 10" speaker to an AlNiCo 12 long ago .
at 8 or 9 watts , it has just enough power to make you mad ...
I picked up some old Brimar 12AX7 tubes on Ebay a while ago. Very old and tested out food as new. They were military grade and wow, what can I say, like night and day. I'm really not a tube snob but they were a bargain and sound great.
With that said, I like tung sol tubes and thing they are one of the best of the new tubes out there.
On a side note, you should have the bumblebee caps checked out. Original caps, the paper goes acid and you get DC leaking across them. There's a guy that does tutorials on stuff like that and how to make a tester that can reliably test caps for leakage. Most modern testers can't do it well and can test good while in fact they are far from it. Folks won't like me saying this but most of those old bumblebee caps have perished and probably need replacement. If not, they can red plate the power tunes or take out the grid in short order. So, find out how to test them properly then find out how your "amp guy" is doing things. I dont want to cast aspersions on any mans good name but it is worth looking into. I will try to find a link and add that for you to have a look at.
Link to testing caps. He has some other stuff to help understand basics for anyone that wants to learn a bit too.
czcams.com/video/LhovRIM5xAo/video.html
Fenders always sound great through those old gibson amps. Great playing as always 🍻
and vice versa
Sounds great
Great sound!
gave Glenn Schwartz my 1953 Danelectro special . He changed out the speaker , sound's Great Today
that amp has clear tone
Sounds awesome with your 59
Great tone, nice playing. Awesome.
I think its sweet .Clean is a sweet tone and I would put a nice od of choice on it .Great guitar playing also
I'm getting to where I open up a Matthew video and I click like right away. They are all awesome!
Thank you.
@@MatthewScottmusic there's one other thing that you can do if you want a little more gain. The cathode resistor on the second stage of your 12AX7 probably doesn't have a bypass capacitor. (They were not into wailing sustain in the 50's, it was more of a polite Lawrence Welk thing.) My Tweed Princeton didn't have this cap, and I added one. The gain went through the roof. It screams when it's cranked, and it cools down when you play easy or turn either the amp or the guitar down. It goes back to normal. Ask your tech about this and see what he says. It's only 2 solder joints and one electrolytic cap. It won't do any harm to the amp, and you can easily remove it if you don't like it. Try either a 25 or 50uf @ 50 volts, whichever one you like is the right one. The 25 is brighter and the 50 is a little more chunky. I did this mod to my Princeton 11 years ago, and it ain't hurt nothin'. I would never think of changing it back.
@@MatthewScottmusic One other thing. I'm a crusty old goat and I don't hand out compliments lightly, but I'll tell you the same thing Albert King told Stevie Ray. He said "You're good, and you're gonna keep on gettin' better". So keep up the good work bro, you iz rokkin' de howse!!!!
I moded my amp with a sledgehammer 😀
Cool, your videos are always interesting Matthew. One of my favorite combos was my '63 Junior into a Silver-Face Champ, but my Fenders never seemed to have enough ass with them. I guess that's where the Tweed-circuitry makes the difference.
Great playing as always! Love the content, keep it up brotha!
Sounds great. Great playing, too.
That amp sounds kick ass love the tone
great video!!! what a sweet little amp!!
Sounds great. I have a early 60s GA-5 of my buddys here. Runs EL84s. No bottom end because they transformer coupled the driver stage. I gotta make a mod to it to make it sound more like a Fender.
Wow. Nice tone with that tele!!!
The botton end is going to get a bit better once the speaker gets some hours on it ...on the other hand your playing is allways a pleasure to here my brother .👍😁✌
Hi Matthew 😀 the tele sounds nice and sweet, the strat cool as usual, looking forward to your looking inside the butchered strat. Thanks for sharing. Nice playing by the way 😀🎸
PEACE
I could have bought one of these a few years back for a couple hundred bucks!!!! Dammit I knew I should have grabbed it!!!
Try that bad boy into a 2x12 or similar external cab
It really depends of what speaker we are replacing, because there are a lot of old speakers that is not possible to reproduce their sound nowdays: e.g.: JBL D/K/E, Jensen C12N, CTS ceramics for supers, Celestion pulsonic cones.....etc..... Old speakers are the BEST IMHO if the speakers are good :-)
Beautiful tone and playing 🤙
From Boston! Great vid! Amp sounds KILLER!
Dude , you're pretty good