Ep. 137: "Walk Around the Yard"

The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons

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!

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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.