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Twice a month, guitar amp guru\\xa0Skip Simmons\\xa0fields your questions on tube amp buying, restoration and repair. Co-hosted by\\xa0the Fretboard Journal\\u2019s Jason Verlinde.

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Special thanks to our sponsors: Grez Guitars, Martin, Gibson and Carter Vintage.

Submit your guitar amp questions to Skip here: fretboardjournal@gmail.com or by leaving us a voicemail or text at 509-557-0848.

Some of the topics discussed on this episode:

2:18 We have Truth About Vintage T-shirts (support the show)
5:33 This week\\u2019s sponsors: Grez Guitars, Gibson, Martin and Carter Vintage
6:29 The Epiphone version of a Gibson Falcon
9:00 More cooking tips with Skip
12:12 Skip can\\u2019t find his schematic
12:30 Thrifty Leo
14:12 More music tips: Bix Beiderbecke, Ned Boynton
18:00 Skip\\u2019s looking for someone to recone field coil speakers
19:35 Skip talks about his Champ mods, once more
24:45 The final Baffler \\xa0
28:06 Correction re: Guitar Center\\u2019s return policy
29:28 A listener with an interesting way to use an electric amp with an acoustic guitar
33:27 The Grateful Dead\\u2019s Wall of Sound
37:12 Skip\\u2019s test guitar and cheap British amp recommendations
43:00 Skip\\u2019s test cabinet\\xa0
45:15 A 1968 Fender Pro Reverb with a delayed vibrato
47:32 What\\u2019s a tone stack?
51:15 Pinpointing the buzz on a Silverface Fender Princeton
54:35 Class A, Class A/B and single-ended power tube arrangements \\xa0
59:17 Tips on looking at vintage Gibson amps
1:02:48 A listener fixes his own Gibson Discoverer Tremolo
1:08:00 The triode mode used on high-powered amps
1:14:01 A brief chat about Dumble
1:18:44 A mid-60s Epiphone Galaxy that\\u2019s won\\u2019t turn off
1:20:23 Salvaging parts from a heavily modified Blackface Fender Bassman
1:24:30 Discussing changes on an early 1969 Fender Twin Reverb
1:29:50 Making homebrew amps sound less civil \\xa0
1:33:11 Making a late \\u201950s Sylvania powered speaker amp work better as a guitar amp
1:42:12 Modding PA heads to work for guitars\\xa0