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1956 Silvertone 1333 | Vintage Amp Restoration | Fazio Electric
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2021
- Watch me refurbish the circuit in a late 50's Silvertone 1333 tube amp.
This is the last video shot in my first Los Angeles workshop (shot Sep 2021). My hiatus is due to moving, traveling, and looking for a new spot. Thank you all for sticking around!
If any Chicagoland folks would like their amp serviced, I will be here through the month of December 2021. Shoot me an email, and be sure to mention you're in Illinois.
EMAIL: fazioamps@gmail.com
INSTAGRAM: @fazioelectric
I am 68,electronics engineer with 42+ years of experience. I see the patience you have and appreciate the logical analysis you do to troubleshoot the amp. Very well done. Congrats.
Except for one thing, she replaced the power cord with plastic cables on the interior. If you notice, the original power lines were cloth covered to prevent power source melting and causing a short. That's a rookie mistake!
Great movie.
It's nice to hear a woman's voice on the technical channel and nice colored nails instead of hairy paws.
Best wishes
From 1986 to 1996, I worked as a radio mechanic, after 1996 I work in the energy sector, but last year, when I saw this beautiful lady on CZcams, I had a desire to do radio mechanics in addition to. Thank you kind beauty, you inspired me to do my favorite thing again, good luck to you.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING RUMBLE!!! I was sitting like "imagine if she played that".
Hi Colleen , Thank you again for the work you have done on this amp ! All your effort has resulted in my Dads's old Silvertone being one of the most requested amps in my studio backline . Your work is beyond fantastic !
I have used other Tube Gurus in the past and your work ethic and attention to detail set you above the rest .
For the record I am using the amp most often with a Fender bassman cab loaded with NOS Muscle Magnets . These
are old production Eminence speakers that really bring out the Silvertone sound .
Thank you again for your hard work and devotion .
Best ,
Jonny T
The filter capacitor grounded on transformer casing... golden 🤣
I loved the Link Wray ! Great job, I could watch you all day !
People like you single handedly keep the used amp market alive and keep these cool old machines going generationally gotta love it
Those are some badass fingernails! 👍
Hot rod.
Nice touch.👍🥃
I can't believe there aren't more comments about them, they are so cool!
That amp sounds like a David Lynch film.
Best coment ever
Whats better than watching a good tech go through a classic amp? Watching one with badass nails do it👍
I spent half an hour learning about amp repair and then was treated to your renditions of Grant Green and Link Wray!? Fabulous! Love your work!
What's amazing besides your obvious skill is the fact that even with You Tube compressing the heck out of the audio, the warmth of that amp comes through like a thick, fuzzy blanket on a cold day. It just sounds gorgeous! Excellent work! You provide such a rare and needed service to classic audio lovers everywhere!
I would like to take this opportunity to compliment you and your mentor for doing such a great job. Its refreshing to hear a younger person speak and explain why circuitry is being configured the correct way. I'm a professional electronic technician and I can quickly differentiate between someone that knows their stuff and someone that is just repeating the words they were taught. Please keep up the good work and making great videos. You are unique and should be very successful in what you do as you have what it takes to really understand what needs to be done.
Idle Moments. Came for the repair video, staying for the tunes.
Hi young lady. I am a 66 year old tech working on rf equipment all my life. I would like to say that your work is very clean. Thanks for the fun videos.
One of the most enjoyable episodes for sure... especially for us old timers who remember dreaming of owning this amp, while paging through the Sears catalogue in our youth!
I’m with you brother…
No better way to test a tremello circuit than Rumble! Awesome job on this amp!
A good reparation/restoration of a tube amplifier, a calm female voice while soldering with fire nails, is a kind of art. Very good video👍
I’m a shade tree amp builder / player. Love your systematic method of bringing these old amps back to there former glory. It’s easier to build one, then fix one sometimes. Kudos!
so happy to see younger people that are into the old gear and repairing it..
Super restoration repair!👍 Really dig the Link Wray "RUMBLE" bit at the end! Vintage vibes for a vintage amp!😎
As soon as I saw you repairing the tremolo I said to myself this amp is made to play the rumble. You did not fail to oblige!
that remember me when I started learning electronics in 1973...tubes,relays, no printed circuits,hand soldering....its fun to see a nice girl with your knowledge ! , dont give up ! the world need more persons like you !
Very neat work, I use to be an old tube jockey, your work is very impressive, great too see a young lady carrying on an old tradition ! Enjoyed the video.
That is crazy how quiet that amp eventually got. Excellent video! I don't know why, but it's almost therapeutic watching you solder, you're so solid. That entire room would smell like burned insulation if I was attempting any of those tight reaches. I think you could solder around corners if you so desired.
My Silverton 1482 is in a new cabinet, and I constantly leave it on as it's so quiet.
Damn, that was some spot-on Link Wray! Such a beautiful tone.
Nice video, I cringed when I saw how the mains was done originally, but loved how you sorted the hot through the fuse and then to the switch, much safer. You solder exactly the way I do, heat the subject with a hot iron and flood the joint with solder, then get the heat away, very skilled and a joy to watch.
It's good to see you back. These episodes were sorely missed. I too am not surprised the cabinet deteriorated. They were made of particle board and Masonite. Have you been experiencing the ever-shrinking availability of tubes? Everyone I have spoken to have commented on how scarce they are. Your nails are BOMB! I hope more work comes your way. This channel is very interesting in the presentation of the material. Nevertheless stay safe from this modern-day plague.
Nice old amp! I hope the owner can get it into some version of its original cabinet so it can be played out again.
Good job rearranging the fuse and switch. In the end the amp performed well, but here are some suggestions:
The safety ground (green earth wire) should be attached using a dedicated bolt, as requirement for new equipment. Transformer bolts can loosen over time.
The safety ground lead should be left long enough so that it will be the last thing to break free if the power cable is pulled out of the chassis.
The best place to ground the first filter (reservoir cap) is at the same point where the power transformer’s high-voltage center tap (or the bridge rectifier) is grounded. That minimizes the chance of 120Hz buzz getting into the audio by keeping the return from high-current charging pulses off the chassis.
Stabilizing large electrolytics by attaching them to the chassis with silicone is a good idea to prevent lead breakage, but they should be located away from heat sources to maximize service life. The power transformer, output tubes, and output tube cathode resistors are things to keep them away from.
Amazing what 12 watts could do back in the 1950s. Reflowing the solder in EVERY contact in a 100% point-to-point wiring layout is the definition of a lo or of love!I had the Silvertone 1485, which today has a cult following.
Forty years of experience in repairing and building audio and radio equipment allow me to rate you with AAA. Excellent work!
Sounds sweeeeet. Now it’s ready for another 60+ years. Great work.
Hopefully I’ll find the courage to repair one of my amps. some day. Thanks 🤘👍
Saw that main filter capacitor and said to myself, never do that! You demonstrated exactly as to why , it is a very poor
connection to ground. Grounding lugs are best. What a beast of a recap job. Very tight quarters and time consuming.
This amp never sounded so good now and with a working tremolo to boot. Great job Colleen!
My only thought is if those green caps had failed in the tremolo circuit, I'd think the rest of them would be suspect too. I probably would've replaced the rest of the green ones as well
@ROSE STONE Looking at the schematic (the cap values), and the form factor of both the original green ones that came out, and the replacement yellow ones that went back in, I think those must be film caps. Ceramic caps are either flat discs, or just little resin covered blobs. Film caps have the same form factor as an electrolytic (round cylinder of film wrapped into a roll), but there's no wet electrolyte in them. My guess is the originals are probably failing at the lead-to-film connection and just go completely open circuit. Watching closer, the green caps in the tremolo circuit are different than the other green caps elsewhere that she didn't replace. The labeling on them is different, so maybe the other caps really are ok. I wasn't watching that closely the first time to notice the differences.
@@gorak9000 Yeah, my thoughts exactly particularly given the amp age. Definitely should have replaced that lone wax cap! TBH it should have been fully recapped but great job fixing the amp and especially changing the non polarized line cord!
@@expired56k I think with these vintage amps, there's some desire to keep the original caps in the audio path as long as they're still doing their job - blocking DC bias between the gain stages. Something about "character" and whatnot... :) I mean that's the whole reason to use tube amps these days to begin with - for the "warmth" and "character" (aka distortion). Not all distortion is bad or undesired.
@@gorak9000 I mean yeah, it might be okay depending on where that cap is but wax caps are absolutely notorious for being bad, if it's completely bad is stops being a cap and could damage the amp or let AC through. Given than no cap was ESR tested, it might not be best idea to just assume it is good by just using the amp. It would be nearly impossible to have a good wax cap from well of year 70 years ago which also saw a lot of usage like OP has mentioned. I doubt anyone could really hear this warm cap in a guitar amp, but I definitely know what you mean! ;)
Love how you put it into the historic perspective too. Old old amp.
What a wonderful dramaless restore of an old classic amp was very entertaining and the rumble rendidtion at the end was a bonus.
Link Wray was a great choice for this amp. Nice job.
Colleen is a thoughtful reflective natural teacher.
Thank-you, Colleen, for this very helpful video and for response to my email. 👍🏼 #RockOn
P.S. -love yer nails!
Excellent!! ... And I'm always chuffed to hear a wee bit o' Link Wray in the mix.
WOOOOOWWWW from today this is my favorite channel, forever!
Did you go to school for electronics or learn by doing it like I did? The more I watch the more your attention to details just shines. You have learned some great techniques and it shows. Anyone sends you something to work on, It'd coming back better than when it was originally built.
Idle Moments by Grant Green was a surprise treat! One of my favourite songs and albums of his. I love the care, attention and historical perspective you’ve packed into this video. Your nails look awesome btw.
and Link Wray's "Rumble" sounded fantastic too!
I just love your work, Lots more please x
Soooooo cute! If I have trouble with my little Blues jr royal blood with Celestion g12. I will have a hard time not making a very long trip to your shop!😁😂
Love the calm feeling you project! 🥵 Knowing how hard this is and your patience. Respect young lady.🤘🤘
Keep'em coming!
It sounds amazing! I always loved the tremolo on these old Silvertone amps. Awesome job on the restore, it's really cool that you were able to fix everything for the owner like this. What a great family heirloom.
thanks for bringing this one back to life. I've never seen a point-to-point with this many components!
It's not that bad really. I don't even find it tedious. Was more concerned about her ruining the purdy nails :p ... I only have basic electronics knowledge, and I love these old school point-to-point solders and tube design as they are so simple to figure out as long as you know what the tubes does. It's rarely difficult to diagnose noise problems, as you basically just need to replace caps, resolder all joints and have an inventory of the right tubes which is propably the most difficult to have. More modern amp designs often require much more knowledge of all kind of circuits to diagnose
Buster is awfully darn cute. I lost my last little pooch SweetBread a month ago. I miss her pretty bad.
I bought a Silvertone 1334 new in 1956 - loved it - miss it!!
I love all your videos, and the little history about that time in the US is a very cool touch. Please keep 'em coming! 😊🤙🙏👏🎸🎼🎵🎶🔊
Thanks, your explanations and camera shots really help understand the process clearly. The amp sounded great when done!
This is a great video! I love these older, low wattage tube amps. Hope all goes well with resettling into new digs. Thank you for sharing!
Do wop doobie do wop. Nice soldering. You brought an old one back to life. Too cool
I’m very happy to see you back to CZcams. I *LOVE* the little history intro!
labor of love indeed, you practically rebuilt that whole amp. very impressive and great playing to demonstrate the fruits of your hard work.
The final test made my smile :)
It's awesome to see such a piece of vintage tech working fine again
your videos give me peace of mind! thanks
I feel for you; the tremolo oscillator caps, ugh! I had to replace them in my Silvertone 1472 Amp... good thing I had a schematic lol. I love your video! You're the best!! 👌
What a heroic effort! Not only showing all the skill and dexterity, but also all the editing that went in to this. Totally worth saving, that is one honey of a tone. Cheers!☘
WOW you know your stuff and do fantastic work paying attention to every detail you can work on my 51 Valco lol 😂 Thanks Jim
amp sounds amazing, and this is my first exposure to your videos, and I really enjoyed your clear and extremely easy to understand yet obviously very knowledgeable walk through. Also whoever is playing the guitar has excellent taste that fits the amp and style and tone.
Aluminum chassis means it was built by Danelectro (early Silvertones with steel chassis were built by Valco). Watch out for riveted chassis grounds that have often oxidized or worked loose over the years. The green Sangamo caps are almost always leaky (electrically).
Sangamo caps are good enough for that thing
I have the same amp and all of my coupling caps were leaky. I just recapped the whole thing. Replaced the old carbon resistors in the front end to quiet that down as well. I've found several old Valcos use pretty cheap resistors that hiss and pop when warm.
@@cheezhead6007 What does that mean?! I have rebuilt some Danos and Silvertone Danos and find that good 'un is right. The Sangamo caps do not hold up well. Not only do they leak DC but they also drift way off spec. I just finished a Dano/Silvertone and had to replace every cap in the amp. Now sounds great - Sangamos were not "good enough."
Nice nails for amp tech Coleen - mine are always frayed and broken.
If you want to be thorough, you would want to replace .5 200VDC wax wad cap as well. There's excellent video on Mister Carlson's lab channel why paper caps go bad with time.
Aslo, check that these old Tropical caps don't leak DC through - if tremolo caps went bad, coupling might be on the way.
Best of luck.
Yeah, paper caps are ticking time bombs of trouble. If the rest go bad the amp will start burning up tubes.
So cool! Fond memories of a time I miss so much. Thank you for sharing this moment.
You do a really really great job showing and explaining it all
This is such great unintentional ASMR. Your voice paired with the sounds of snipping and placing down tools is just fantastic. Educational too!
Thank you for this. The amp sounded great at the end.
Check out twoodfrd. He's a Canadian luthier and he also has an incredibly calming voice
Wrist watch revival is another jem, I don't care about watches but I've watched hours of that guy take apart watches and put them back together
Watched the post 1 Dec in the morning hours, and was reminded of family jams at the season. In part as some of that performance happened on very similar amps. Absolutely a first rate repair and where I would bet the owner will be very pleased to get back that trem depth. hoping you found that new workshop, As a note from my workbench, it so happened I so liked the repair to the *valve jr I simply placed the new parts to storage. It has a sizzle and crunch
at about 3/4 from Fender to Jr. to cabinet I cannot bear to change. Thank you for the assist to source them and where I bid you, fair winds. "fair season". M.
Sounds great! Goosebumps
That was really enjoyable to watch. Thanks for the upload.
Cool stuff, thanks for the video! Shout-out to the camera person and editing in this video. Very good work!!
Que raridade é ver uma mulher técnica em eletrônica! Voçê é um diamante!! 👏👏👏👏👏
a video like this one is enough to fall straight in love with u.
Glad to see you uploading again, Coleen!
Fantastic old chassis, and a job well done! Always a good idea to remove the tubes from their sockets when soldering the pins!
Thanks for sharing!
Better yet, put a dead tube in while soldering the pins. Otherwise solder can drip down into the empty pin socket, and removing it is a nightmare.
Thanks for the vids!
That’s is a rad amp and rad video! Also, I really dig the nails 😉
I'm not sure what's up with this trend of amp circuit-related channels is featuring doggos, but I'm living for it
love the nails!
Heeeeeey, long time, no see :). I love your channel - amp/pedal/synth girls of the world, unite!
Lovely amp on the outside, but it could surely use some redesign when it comes to ground connections. Depending on the chassis layout, I choose bus or star grounding. For the latter I use a thick copper wire (e.g. 4mm²) grounded close to the input jack, going all the way to the power supply. The wire between the rectifier bridge (or secondary C.T.) and the filter cap is "dirty", should be reasonably heavy and nothing else can connect to it.
I always use some kind of strain relief if going for a hardwired power cord; heatshrink for soldered connections on fuse ockets and switches, and whenever a wire goes out of the transformer and I need to splice it, I use a terminal strip or a DPDT power switch.
I really love that you know your thing and talk about amps and repairs with competence and confidence. Uncle Doug (and probably Mr Carlson too, as I see his school of fuse-before-switch) has taught you well. And you have nice nails :) I sometimes do repairs and build stuff with painted nails, but it's kinda tricky...
It is an absolute pleasure watching you work. You always leave me in awe of how effortless you make it appear when I know that's far from reality. On a separate note, if you re-order T-Shirts, please let us know? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to purchase one!! Please keep up the great work and the Great Videos!!!
Thank you! I have a feeling that’s in the cards for the future :)
@@FazioElectric Also waiting for the next batch of shirts! Great video as always,
@@FazioElectric I’d buy a t-shirt too
@@FazioElectric I just joined today and would love to see you assemble a tube amp from the start.
You wrap your wires the same way that I do,it makes for a nice smooth connection with heat shrink. I have been repairing electronic equipment for 50years and I really enjoy watching you work, you are no nonsense and very thorough. I would like to have you work in my shop. Keep up the good work and I will be waiting for your next video.
Great to see a new video. Very informative.
Dang, I’m blown away by how far this restoration goes.
Great work as always. I noticed that the two cathode bypass caps that you replaced were actually different values in the amp than were indicated on the schematic. (10uF vs 25uF) Props on going with what was in the amp, imho. Thanks for sharing and great touch on the demos.
Did you catch the El Pato shrink wrap container. She knows what’s up.
Beginning at 28:50, your rendition of Link Ray's "Rumble" reminds me why Cali is the coolest state in the Union. Thank you for sharing your amazing expertise!
Lovely to see you again!
Oh, one more suggestion for reliability: I would avoid mounting filter caps on the power transformer ( I see you glued one to the xmfr case ) reason being that heat from the xmfr will migrate into the cap thru the glue and prematurely dry out the cap over time.
School boy error
That's a nice size amp, the turret boards seem to make for easier service work than busy point to point.
These were built cheaply and by the thousands. Valco, Magna, Danelectro, and dozens of other little amp makers in LA cranked these low-powered amps out with point to point from the 40's through the 60's, affordable to lots of entry players. Hi-fi amps of the day used turret boards and all the fancy stuff, but the steel and electric guitar was seen as a "craze", so getting the product out was the most important thing.
@@87mini I searched up a schematic for the 1333 and found one courtesy of Sears.
Glad to see you back at it. I look forward to seeing the new shop and more great projects!
I don't speek english... but I can only say : it is very, very good work ! Congratulation !
Hi Buster.
So Clear, Clean & Crisp! Classic Vintage Amp sounds! Love your videos. The Flame art on your nails look like they belong on a 56 Chevy! Also Classic & Classy! I learned so much! Thank You.
Fantastic job. And what a finish - Link would surely have loved this amp after your tender and expert ministrations!
I had an early 60's Silvertone.
The first amp I was ever inside of. I did simple ground repair & pot-replacement. Great amp!
This is the first of your videos that I have seen and this is so interesting! I am intimidated by the pile of spaghetti in the back but super impressed with your knowledge of the circuits and confidence in fixing it. I haven't seen the rest of your videos, but have you built a simple amp from scratch to explain the circuit and what all the parts do? That would be interesting to me. Subscribed!
I basically concur with this entire premise.
Great job on the refurbish! Will you make a cabinet for it? Wes Montgomery, always a good choice. You quite possibly have the best looking fingernails in the Amp Repair category on CZcams. 🎸😎👍💖
Winner. 👑 💣
Those knobs look like bakelite. I learned my lesson on having a lighter around bakelite. Lol. You are a wonderful teacher and more. Thank you!
your work is beyond good it's great
Great work as always!! Love the fingernails- much prettier than Uncle Doug’s 😁
I just scored an old Vega Commander made in ‘46, so I’m going to need to do pretty much the same.
FYI. Uncle Doug rapes a lot of amps. He changes out transformers in really rare amps, instead of having them re wound. He is clueless
@@johnsmith-bk4ps Rubbish .
@@johnsmith-bk4ps I'm not sure I've seen Uncle Doug change out a transformer unless it was fried. As a part time tech myself, having transformers rewound is costly. Getting the correct replacement makes no discernable difference to the sound.
@@johnsmith-bk4ps BS, dude. His customers have to pay for it, and please tell me how new windings around an old iron core is any different from a quality new Canadian or American transformer. There's no magic in a transformer. Pickups, yes, transformers, if you use the same gauge wire and the same core design, the output is the same. Any artifact of early construction technology is lost in the rewind.
There is a clueless one in the room, and it ain't Uncle Doug.
@@87mini you can get it rewound for the same money. You are clueless about vintage. Changed transformer is a dealbreaker to collectors so why do it when you can repair and sound just as good. Uncle Doug is not the guy to take a rare vintage amp too.
I would like to know if you have had any instances when replacing the "death cap" with a proper "X-Y" rated cap has solved any noise or hum issues? And I do appreciate your sharing these repairs with us, and will be looking forward to more content. It is good to see a "qualified and experienced" person doing repair work and giving others insight into doing this work as well.
You can put in 3 safety caps on the mains if you want. Haven't done it yet but my engineer friends recommend it.
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You are xo fun to watch you make it look so easy great work!
Colleen you are awesome!! you really really got some killer skills girl.. proper nomenclature, good diagnostic skills,, I keep up with some people on here Brad the guitarologist, Mr Carlson's lab etc etc.. I like people that are precise in there knowledge and nomenclature,,👍 you do excellent work young lady and it is a pleasure watching your channel and looking forward to more videos..
Oh yeah and killer nails😁😁
Izzy.