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deebeeus · 5 months

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I'M IN LOVE - yeah I'm a believer!

1963 #Gibson#GA79 RVT Stereo amplifier (with 1972 #ES355 Stereo guitar).

If you are like me you never paid much attention to these vaguely funny-looking mid 60s Gibson stereo amps. To me they never looked like "real" rock n roll amplifiers, they looked more like the console record player my parents had in their wood-paneled mid mod living room back in the 60s. Part music box...but mostly furniture. I keep wanting to flip up the top and throw on a Neil Diamond LP!

But, I was dropping off some amps for servicing with my amp tech @marshalllespaulfan yesterday, and he had this one in his shop, in from another customer, and we tried it out with my Stereo 355...and all of a sudden EVERYTHING in my life made perfect sense!

This amp was MADE for this guitar...and I mean that quite literally. You plug it in using a special stereo "TRS" cable, switch the amp to "stereo" mode (although you can also use it in "mono" mode with a regular guitar and cable) and it's wired to give you the neck pickup in the left channel and the bridge pickup in the right channel. So you can set different volume, EQs, and effects for each pickup! Once each channel is dialed in, you can just flip your pickup selector between a grungy dark rhythm sound and a bright overdriven lead sound. OR...play them both at the same time on the center position, and have reverb and trem on the underlying bassy tone, but a crisp, clear, un-effected bright tone cutting through at the same time! It's GENIUS.

Because of its funky stereo wiring, my 355 has never been very heavily played 'round 'ere. The best you can do with it on a "regular" amp is plug its stereo cable into the two inputs of the same amp and even then it just sounds like a "normal" guitar. Without a TRS cable, only the neck pickup works on a "normal" guitar cable. So it's essentially useless. But with an amp like this, you can make it do SO MUCH!

I think I have found my next amp acquisition "quest"! 😉

#gibson #ga79 #amp #amplifier #guitar amp #tube amp #vintage amp #gibson amp #vintage gibson #es355 #gibson es355 #es335 #gibson es335 #vintage guitar #guitar #guitars #guitar photography

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technician-the · 6 months

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Spotting dead vacuum tubes!

These tubes have all suffered a loss of Vacuum, which can be seen visually by the milk white color then have turned. In a functioning tube all those white patches are silver or black.

Without vacuum a tube will arc internally, and any device it is placed into will blow fuses, and not function.

This is the most common type of tube failure I see, and is caused by mechanical damage to the tubes. The damage is often around the pins, and may be cause by shock, or extended periods of extreme vibration (IE, normal use in a combo amp). Often the damage itself is not viable, because loss of vacuum occurs before the tiny cracks become viable to the naked eye

Never turn on OR try and use an amp with white tubes! Attempting to do so may cause serious damage, or Injury!

BUT, If you noticed the tubes have changed color and have not yet blown a fuse, you can probably avoid a repair! Simply replace all white tubes before trying to power the amp.

#electric guitar #guitar #guitar amplifier #tube amp #vintage electronics #vintage hifi #vacuum tubes #electronic valves #rock music

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thefalloutwiki · 6 months

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Fallout: Waster Chip Schematics Source

Left: Render of the Water Chip from the intro cutscene of Fallout, showing a schematic in the background.

Right: The source photo from Radio & Television News p.38, January 1954; schematic diagram of a Theremin in an article by Robert Moog.

You can read the full January 1954 issue, as well as our page for real world equivalents in the Fallout Series here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Community:Real_World

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-News/50s/Radio-News-1954-01.pdf

#fallout wiki #fallout #independent fallout wiki #fallout series #fallout 1 #fo1 #fo2 #water chip #fallout real world #fallout wiki facts #fallout facts #theremin #schematics #music #tube amp #vacuum tubes

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gotankgo · 1 month

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Vikki Dougan by Earl Leaf (1957)

#vikki dougan #1957 #earl leaf #record player #tube amp #turntable #records

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forgethemaker · 9 months

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RTFM !!!!

#forge #hacker #forge the maker #maker #misc #electronic #tube amp

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pedaloftheday · 10 months

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11 years in the making, the Dreivoost All-Tube High-Voltage High-Gain Boost from EEIDI FX (Everyone Else Is Doing It) will push any amp into the sweeeeeeeet breakup spot we all know and love...Full Demo on our YouTube channel, don't forget to subscribe!

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lmnly · 1 year

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«Voxy is always there to add some vintage flavour to your sound and your apartment»

- Mittens Zefir Rustamovich

#tube amp #vox amps #vox #AC4TVmini #guitar #telecaster #G&L #ernie ball #cat plush #Zefir Rustamovich

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ptiautiste · 2 years

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Short Wave Transmitter -old style. Ok, the carrier comes from a PLL-Synthesizer to match modern stability standards. The whole thing works amazingly well...

#shortwave transmitter #shortwave radio #tube amp #tube amplifier #vakuum tube

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toddington111 · 1 year

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#electric guitar #guitar #guitar amp #tube amp #tubeamp #black and white #black and white pics #vox

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deebeeus · 8 months

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1959 #Princeton 1962 #Tremolux 1998 #CustomShop '60 #CustomTele NOS

As you can see I have been monkeying around lately with a new backdrop for gear photos. I am trying to up my game this year in preparation for THE Southern Ontario guitar-related social event of the summer season (which of course is the @dlott65 Productions Presentation of a @chriswstringer8 Joint, the 2023 Edition of the Official Union-Sound, Toronto Guitar Friends' Friendly Guitar Gathering, Gabfest, and Geek-a-thon), which is coming up really soon!

If this year's gathering is even half as much fun as last year's it will be a memorable day indeed. I am looking forward to seeing everyone (both returning faces and new ones) and of course seeing (and photographing!) what everyone brings for show and tell! 😉

#FenderFriday#fender#fendertelecaster#tele#teletuesday#amp#amps#amplifiers#vintageguitars#vintageamps#fenderamp#vintagefender#tubeamp#tone#guitar#guitars#guitarra#chitarra#guitarre#electricguitar#vintageguitars#fenderguitars#vintagefender#guitarphotography

#guitar #guitars #guitarphotography #fender #gibson #vintageguitars #electricguitar #vintagegear #nikon #telecaster #tele #fenderfriday #vintage amp #guitar amp #tube amp #custom shop #fender custom shop #custom telecaster

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choong-sik-moon · 2 years

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#tube amp #To make a vacuum tube audio power amplifier #I tried to arrange the parts. The output tube is going to make a 6bq5 or 6v6 single amp. Ultra-short tube and drive stage use 12au7 * 4 pcs

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voodoorhythmrecords · 2 years

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Costum made Blues Trash 1959' based on a fender bassman 59 made by: Frecci instruments in Zürich Switzerland, my birtday present to myself

#fender baseman #guitar amp #tube amp #1959

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saintlyleftovers · 2 months

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Finally made a little house for the little tube amp kit I constructed a while ago. The goal was to completely enclose it so it didn't get so damn dusty but I couldn't think of a convenient way to do it.

#tube amp #guitar pedals

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forgethemaker · 1 year

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This past months, I had a Vox UL760 amp to repair (many burnt parts inside). It's a very rare amp. All the preamp parts are using transistors and the power amp is using tubes.

This amp belongs to my friend Fabien who is playing in Animal Triste.

It was a very hard work to do because the amp is very complicated to disassemble and I had so much work on it.

There are two channels, a reverb, a tremolo and some kind of integrated fuzz in it.

You'll find more information on that amp here.

#Forge #forge the maker #maker #hacker #vintage #vox #vox amp #repairs and mods #vintage amp #tube amp #vaccuum tube #electronics #Beatles #Vox Showroom

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endlessmediacorporation · 2 months

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