No Blackface? - Did Fender Make an OOPSIE? - 1981 Vibrolux Reverb Service and Demo

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No Blackface? - Did Fender Make an OOPSIE? - 1981 Vibrolux Reverb Service and Demo

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5 жыл бұрын

In this vid we'll service a 1981 Fender Vibrolux Reverb that oddly still has a Silverface faceplate. By the early 80s, Fender had switched back to Black face. This amp could be the very last of the original Silverface era with a transformer dated 4th week of 1981.
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@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

I dressed up as Michael Jackson for Halloween once. True story. I had the Beat It jacket and everything. I was such a badass kid.

@williambaker1136 5 жыл бұрын

I did Mr. T in 5th grade. Black- faced, my blonde hair died black down the middle and roach clips + over - gold.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

@@williambaker1136 I ate Mr. T cereal when my mom let me get it.

@geemac7267 5 жыл бұрын

They will hunt you down bro! lol

@MAXIMUMintheHORMONE 5 жыл бұрын

It was easy to dress up as Michael after his "vitiligo". Is there such thing as whiteface? maybe weaves?

@ROOKTABULA 5 жыл бұрын

You're lucky that the Home Of Hypocrisy (and Steve King and Agolf Twitler) , the GOP, hasn't found out cuz they'd be calling for your head too.

@marcellinden7305 5 жыл бұрын

Great video Brad... As a Aussie tech myself for over 40y I cant say you did anything wrong here, but I did have a chuckle when you landed those bias voltage problems. I have my own ideas as to what caused it though you got there in the end... they are a nice amp...

@HC_GUITAR 5 жыл бұрын

Brad i love the tech stuff but you should do some videos with just your playing as you are a excellent player with loads of tasty licks. I'm sure most of your subscribers would agree!!

@DoctorRobertBobby 5 жыл бұрын

i was just gonna post something very similar. was even gonna use the word tasty! great playing for sure.

@politicalGRAFFITI 5 жыл бұрын

I agree. Enjoy Brad's playing and would think others would benefit from learning some licks from him.

@wmperry2790 5 жыл бұрын

i wish i had his right hand technique. i dont even know how to get it, to tell the truth. Any suggestion?

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, y'all are too kind. On right hand technique, I did a video on that a couple years ago. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8B1Y6aFztuxnmw.html

@zorroonmilkavitch1840 5 жыл бұрын

I just had sort of a imaginary hoax run through my mind where Brad would just rip and Shred and then do a Hendricks /Pete Townsend Ending by just reaming the speaks busting up a customers equipment just for a few laughs.....

@ThatGuitardedGuy 5 жыл бұрын

Great video dude, and that Fender banner looks great!

@bbmade 5 жыл бұрын

What I dig about your amp videos is it’s like just hanging out with you watching the work and learning along the way. Dig it.

@thebighandshake8796 5 жыл бұрын

Holy balls! I love this channel!!! Lol the title had me rolling!!

@Eddy63 5 жыл бұрын

Good vid Brad ... I like it when you show actual soldering ... Much appreciated

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

There's more of it on Channel 2. Some stuff I edited out of this one.

@sski 5 жыл бұрын

Came for your "Mammy" rendition. Left at the end missing my '74 Fender Bassman 100 head. Another great repair video. Thanks, Brad!

@gobigrey9352 5 жыл бұрын

Great video. Always learn a lot watching.

@freepress8451 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, great video with fine playing to 'cap' it off

@ovation99 5 жыл бұрын

just great to see the repair vids are back Brad

@tombauer631 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Brad, you’ve got excellent tone man.

@alpal621 5 жыл бұрын

You’ve got yourself a new sub. Keep up the good work 👌🏿

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

Welcome. A scantily clad lady will be along with your cocktail and air sickness pills shortly.

@fostexfan160 4 жыл бұрын

Absolute excellence in every area Brad. Detailed discussion, narration and quality footage supported with some tasty playing that really shows the beautiful tones of that lovely amplifier. A valve amplifier enthusiasts porn channel! You are the Ron Jeremy of your craft! Brilliant!!

@kimthompson5871 5 жыл бұрын

Nothing like that old fender clean sound with a bit of reverb.

@kimthompson5871 5 жыл бұрын

Dirty Leslie that picture is my mistake , I have never corrected it . In fact I am a lefty that plays right ! But yes you are indeed right , power to the lefties ! Lol

@yosemitesam4549 5 жыл бұрын

Nice sounding amp. Definitely has that Fender vibe.

@imannonymous7707 5 жыл бұрын

great jammin bro, kickin ass , love the way you control feedback too , in case i dont say it enough

@semajdis 5 жыл бұрын

Liked just for the reverb crash. Everything sounds better with a good reverb crash in it.

@pedaloof6917 5 жыл бұрын

Yes! I want to see more Fenders and Marshalls on the channel! I love looking inside of those.

@MrPnew1 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to see some repairs coming up Brad

@robertcalkjr.8325 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brad. That amp sounds great!

@baberoot1998 4 жыл бұрын

I bet, you could design, and manufacture an awesome fuzz box. Go on...make one, and give us all something that drops our jaws. You could make a mint!!! Another thoroughly enjoyed video. Keep up the great work. 👍☀️👍

@leftymike5625 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful playing man✌

@cat793c2008 5 жыл бұрын

Nice playing 👍love your channel!

@johntempleton6368 5 жыл бұрын

Probably one of the last V.R. amps ever made in that era. By 1980 Fender had gone back to blackface cosmetics on the Deluxe and Princeton. Another tech has done mods to make it more like the AB 763 circuit, changing the bias balance back to a bias level control and replacing some resistors in the phase invertor circuit. The GZ34 swap you mentioned would be a good idea. It raises the B+ and take 2 amps of load current off of the power transformer. At that point in time Fender's large amps were covered by 2 schematics that were simply labelled 70 watt and 145 watt depending on how many output tubes it had.

@stephenmccarthy1597 5 жыл бұрын

In a day and age when bikes tvs phones are disposable its nice to see you fix things kids dont know how to fix stuff anymore when i was a kid you had a schwinn and it lasted you would fix it if something happened to it

@gaelchuncho9185 5 жыл бұрын

To me,this amp was sounding amazing at the beginning.

@Les537 5 жыл бұрын

Nice save. I think 2X10 is a pretty nice set up. That fender on fender sound after the repairs is great. All day long.

@srtamplification 5 жыл бұрын

Fender didn't phase the Blackface plates back in all at once. They started in 1980 with the newly updated Paul Rivera amps such as the Concert/Concert II and then slowly started putting black panels on the other models. I used to have a 1981 Fender Champ that was still Silverface. It was made in the first few weeks of '81 and had both '80 and '81 parts.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

I figured that was the case. This is the latest SF I've seen from the original run. Makes sense they might have had more Vibrolux Reverb faceplates lying around than some other models too.

@srtamplification 5 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitologist If you want to do a cool mod on that amp, play the Vibrato channel with the V1 tube pulled. Because of the shared resistor and capacitor network, pulling the V1 tube while using the Vibrato channel or pulling the V2 tube while using the Normal channel, gives it a much better tone in my opinion. Some people actually install a switch that can do this.

@jburtonca 5 жыл бұрын

I have a Princeton Reverb ll amp from the early 80s. I bought it in 1989 for $250. It's a kick-ass little amp.

@caverbrad 5 жыл бұрын

I have a 72 Marshall Superlead with a plexi front and metal back. It has the laydown transformer. I bought it while stationed in Scotland in the mid 80's when nobody wanted the old Marshalls anymore. I questioned it on some amp forum years ago and some believe it was a "parts" amp. Instead of throwing older parts away they used them to build amps after cleaning out the storage areas.

@TheTactical6string 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely perfect Brad.

@davekimball3610 5 жыл бұрын

Don't be reluctant about that radio to guitar amp conversion, that sort of thing will be awesome to see.

@russianbot2397 5 жыл бұрын

The only Vibrolux i ever played through was at a small radio station Christmas party 5 years ago. The station's manager claimed that he bought it at a yard sale from one of his buddies/neighbor on long island who was a member of Blue Oyster Cult, and who claimed it was Hendrix's practice studio amp at some point. It was a brown very early 60's Vibrolux. No actual provenance to speak of, but the amp sounded amazing regardless of it's origins. It didn't look like it had been gone through. It had a two prong cord, and i was playing it improperly grounded, and singing through a microphone which ended up electrocuting me in the mouth. It was in the middle of a song and i managed to play it off like nothing happened. It was a nice experience, and i hope that the Hendrix story was true. Just thinking im touching the same knobs Jimi did was really special.

@SimpleManGuitars1973 5 жыл бұрын

I'd say that guy was just a member of an actual cult and not the band. LOL! That's a cool story though but it just seems hilarious to think that someone would be selling something at a yard sale that once belonged to Jimi Hendrix. That stuff is probably usually sold at Christie's for exuberant amounts of money.

@russianbot2397 5 жыл бұрын

@@SimpleManGuitars1973 No, the yard sale took place in the 70's before Jimi acquired the cult following he got in the 80's and 90's when people really realized that someone like him doesn't come around very often. When Jimi died, the news just called it a negro musician overdosed on drugs and people went on with their lives. It's later that he got the fame he deserved while he was alive. And at thay point you started having people claiming that their stuff belonged to Hendrix to con people. Anybody that had a 60's strat and a drill in the 80's and 90's could have tried to pass it off as a Hendrix guitar. But no, the owner of the amp is a minor radio celebrity that had a radio children's show in the 70's and early 80's. He does know a lot of famous New York people like Howard Stern, and other people in that category like BOC Long Islanders, so i don't think he's lying. Plus he's really wealthy and isn't trying to sell the amp or pass it off as anything it's not. He was very nice to me, and we were trying to get a project going together that fell through, and i just kind of stopped hanging out with him and with his circles, and i kind of have to be vague when telling that story, and leave names out because they are reasonably influential and powerful people that i don't want to piss off.

@land-o-lumox2pieface291 5 жыл бұрын

I went to a Cult concert in Atlanta once.Too darn loud even for a young 20 year old kid.

@MrGTO-ze7vb 5 жыл бұрын

Blue Oyster Cult rented a huge mansion on Eatons Neck near JP Morgan's estate near Northport NY where I grew up. They had tons of equipment that they traded and swapped with many Long Island musicians. The summer parties at their place were epic in 1976 thru 1980.

@hearpalhere 5 жыл бұрын

Sweet, I finally know now what the death capacitor is :-) Thanks Brad for these videos, they are really helpful and instructional.

@theguitarmanifesto 5 жыл бұрын

Look forward to seeing all these amps, some great videos ahead 😎

@russianbot2397 5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to my favorite KZfaq channel bro. Don't worry, yours isn't far behind. 😋

@theguitarmanifesto 5 жыл бұрын

@@russianbot2397 likewise 💪

@tedgay8427 5 жыл бұрын

"...right now I need a Telecaster through a Vibrolux turned up to ten." John Hiatt

@budkelly1242 5 ай бұрын

So damn good '81 Great channel man

@mischef18 5 жыл бұрын

Turned out a great video bro

@Eventual420 5 жыл бұрын

The enormous top end of a Vibrolux with the Reverb, coupled with the robust low end give them a 6L6 scooped feel. For single coil guitars, they pronounce the features of that pickup. A long time favorite, but having blown enough 10" Jensen's, I moved to 12" ceramics. I learn so much, about Carbon Comp resistors. I thought they were preferable, but I've had my share of heat problems, exploding resistors, exploding tubes... I guess I need to keep the amp in a cooler environment, not sitting on top of other amps. Great playing, everybody loves a Lux. Can't wait to see the future videos, I love to learn. Thanks Brad!

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

Some builders swear by carbon comp in signal paths. Heat can be an issue. Those resistors will rise in value over time.

@jenniferwhitewolf3784 5 жыл бұрын

7025 is just a low noise selected 12AX7. Today we can buy 12AX7 that are selected for exceptionally low noise if desired, so its not a big deal. My 1966 Vibrolux Reverb blackface is STILL working fine on the original high voltage filter electrolytic caps... I suppose because, not over-used to thousands upon thousands of hours, but used often enough to keep the caps formed.

@vaughanmacegan4012 5 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh, the Fender reverb just cannot be beat! The vibrato of the other hand is a different story :)

@brockscutchfield 5 жыл бұрын

Yay. I have been looking forward to this one!!!!!!

@danoconnor618 5 жыл бұрын

nicely done Brad.

@hearpalhere 5 жыл бұрын

Man, you're playing is on fire in this video! Loved all the funky stuff right before you kicked in overdriven sounds.

@capitanvonchickenpants8492 5 жыл бұрын

Such lovely playing at the end

@bobm1915 5 жыл бұрын

I get nervous watching you poke around with your fingers! You should make sure you tell the viewers that you are discharging caps so no one gets juiced following your lead. Love your repair vids. The best!

@charlesfick729 Жыл бұрын

I like your attack on the strings. I always watch demos and a lot of guys barely hit the notes and there’s a big difference. I just watched one demoing distortion (pedal) on a vibrolux and you can tell he was barely hitting the strings….no power. Great demos.

@erpece 5 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to more soldering vidoes!

@chuckdriver7741 5 жыл бұрын

I am now on a quest to find a late 70’s - early 80’s Vibrolux. Love 10 inch speakers 🔊. Touch response and tone for days makes the Vibrolux one of my all time favorite amps. 🇺🇸🗽🦅👍🏼👍🏼

@filmmac3 2 жыл бұрын

I always forget what a great player you are man! Hopefully one day we can jam (probably not, but that would be cool)

@MrRoundwound 27 күн бұрын

He’s a great player

@dannymarks988 5 жыл бұрын

Enjoyable and educational too. PS enjoy the Tele playing. Well done!

@stevehogan8829 5 жыл бұрын

Cool that you are playing more these days. You even got a compliment from TJ Armstrong. I think it would be good to hear you play more too. It's cool to see everyone's style and how people interpret things.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the encouragement.

@13Hangfire 5 жыл бұрын

What a great sounding amp!

@stanbark007 5 жыл бұрын

Love the 304/Flatwoods Monster sticker!! WV represent!!

@robertclarkguitar 5 жыл бұрын

Dude. I'd have a blast in that work room. Lol

@papotorres9064 4 жыл бұрын

WOW THAT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS , THIS IN A WAY MAKES ME HAPPY , ALFRED NYC / PR

@MrCaptpike 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Brad just what the doc ordered, heading down your way soon for my sons vocational school competition. I have 1980's music man 210 65 that my dad bought for me when i was a young teen (I'm 60). never done anything to it but beat her down. lots of gigs.I'd like to drop her off.

@julian65886 5 жыл бұрын

Nice playing!

@277southtombob 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always thought it was a mistake when Fender started doing the 65 reissues they didn’t reissue the Blackface Vibrolux Reverb. One of my favorite amps but originals are getting hard to find.

@MrInfinite43 Жыл бұрын

They did a "Custom" Vibrolux which might be up your alley

@montyderhak 5 жыл бұрын

This Is my favorite amp ever by Fender.....bucket list

@russianbot2397 5 жыл бұрын

So I'm one year older than this amp. Oh man, i want it so bad. The owner is so lucky to have this.

@raylongstar6744 5 жыл бұрын

Great video Brad. It looks like you missed an electrolytic capacitor on the board. You point at it at 29:39 it's to the left of the one you replaced, under some white wires. I could be wrong... all I know about amp repair I learned on this channel and on Uncle Doug's channel.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

You are correct. I saw that while editing. I swear it wasn't there before I went to edit the video. :D

@jts3339 5 жыл бұрын

Great sounding amp!

@dannydine5263 4 жыл бұрын

That's a particularly sweet-sounding amp. Everything I would want a Fender to sound like.

@RudeMoodBand 5 жыл бұрын

That amp sounds GREAT!

@ziggylayneable 5 жыл бұрын

I just felt compelled to hit"Like #666"....I love SPF vids,bit I like everything you put up for that matter.You are a great amp/guitar tech & an even better Dad.THAT is why I respect you so much.

@vmat1000 5 жыл бұрын

I had to laugh when you said "I can't find any fault with this'. I was thinking the same thing. Still a nice amp worth getting its 100,000 mile service :) Cool enough, i recently revisited a VG mag, Jan '18 with Freddie King on the cover and there is nice feature on a '68 Vibrolux, first run, drip rail grille and all. Near mint but even it had a cap job.

@rijosigns 5 жыл бұрын

your such a great guitar player

@Msoulantzos 4 жыл бұрын

Wow my dad had that same amp from 1976. Freakin heavy! We were told by the music zoo that it needed new tubes and new speakers, so it sat in the closet for a few years. Then in 2005 it got left behind, as my family was evicted. I still have his 76 Strat at least, but I wish i still had that amp.

@dnantis 4 жыл бұрын

Brad to do when the black waxed point to point main board for components on old 66-68 Fender amps start lossing the wax and starts producing crackle noises by itself with no guitar connected ?? I remember that one tech took out the bottom black waxed paper board and it improved a lot ! Is there any point to point replacement board for Fender Deluxes and Vibroluxes ?? Please help with info ! Thank You in advanced !

@mitchmason8386 4 жыл бұрын

Man that thing sounds great

@jonlennon3348 5 жыл бұрын

Brad what is the cost of what you just did? It would be of interest to me because I have a pro reverb from 1972 that has some funny noises while it heats up and it needs a about 5 pots replaced because it got damaged before I got it and whom ever replaced the pots used the cheapest they could find.Love your channel.

@michaelbarnett3721 5 жыл бұрын

Brad, thanks for the video. It is extra interesting when there is an unexpected problem that you work through. It helps those who tinker to have more things to consider. I was wondering why you didn't change the last small electrolytic in the main tag board. It looked to be the same as the one you did change (the one that you noted the size difference to the new one). Thanks again for the infomatve video.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

I actually didn't see it until I was editing. I swear it was ducking when I was in there. Plain as day on camera though! Littler bugger.

@dnantis 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitologist Brad to do when the black waxed point to point main board for components on old 66-68 Fender amps start lossing the wax and starts producing crackle noises by itself with no guitar connected ?? I remember that one tech took out the bottom black waxed paper board and it improved a lot ! Is there any point to point replacement board for Fender Deluxes and Vibroluxes ?? Please help with info ! Thank You in advanced !

@EdDanaGuitar 5 жыл бұрын

Hell of an amp!

@acrscott 5 жыл бұрын

How is your Tele wired, did you change your pots to allow for change of neck pick up? What bridge pick up did you match it to? Thanks in advance

@MrBrymstond 5 жыл бұрын

Brad, I wish my storage room was that neat and tidy.

@erikavery8083 5 жыл бұрын

The Vibro sounded good before the repair; it sounds Damned Sweet after the repair!

@ronnie5129 5 жыл бұрын

THANKS FOR THE VIDEO, IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE, THAT AMP SOUNDS GREAT, IT HAS IT ALL, YOU COULD GIG WITH IT LIVE, WITH A MIKE OR THE MIXING BOARD, AND RECORD WITH IT , A VERY NICE AMP, I WISH I HAD ONE, COUSIN FIGEL

@stevehogan8829 5 жыл бұрын

You're gonna poke your grill cloth out haha Wow, it sounds great right off the bat.

@da19570 5 жыл бұрын

The vibrato does not work on my 3 year old reissue vibrolux amp the cable on my foot pedal got pinched on the guitar case pinched the cable I don't think it could have burnt out circuit from lack of use on that channel ?

@scott729 5 жыл бұрын

Brad did you write the music for Mississippi Burning or Sling Blade by chance? Lol, ... my uncle had a Silverface VR much like this one. That thing was so pure (and very loud). At least that is how I remember it from my younger years. Miss him and my pop rehearsing and some of the binding happenings that go along with those activities.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

Most of the very best memories in my life are inextricably enmeshed with music.

@imannonymous7707 5 жыл бұрын

Good sounding amp n axe once he works his magic touch , great noodling too

@michel333100 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Brad, I have a Fender Blackface Bandmaster that had a voltage problem. It occurred to me that maybe I should remove the bias pot and inspect it. Turned out that when I took it apart, sure enough it was fried black inside. I quickly ordered another pot and everything biased up perfectly. You never know. It always seems to be the the one thing that you would least expect.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

Nice catch!

@licustoms 5 жыл бұрын

Hi ~ Just curious what guitar was used in the first part of this video. (I liked the shape of the head with the tuning machine locations.) Also, I was curious if you have any repair videos covering cleaning and replacing capacitors the have blown and leaked causing board corrosion and damage? Much thanks and keep being excellent!

@matthewf1979 5 жыл бұрын

When Brad says “Metal Film” he means Metal Oxide when he’s talking about replacing resistors in the power/screen/bias position. I still use Carbon Comp resistors in replica amps. 989 is the EIA code for Magnetic Components, parent company of Classic Tone. That replacement output transformer is for a Black/Silverface 50 watt Bassman. Popular mod for Vibrolux and Bandmaster amps.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Matt. You're correct. My bad on that. I do that all the time with those.

@matthewf1979 5 жыл бұрын

Russell E Simonetta Metal film resistors are great. Low noise and very accurate tolerance, I have used them in higher gain amps with great success. Very cheap too.

@matthewf1979 5 жыл бұрын

The Guitologist no problemo. Just trying to help your viewers if they plan on doing their own work.

@Zelleram55 5 жыл бұрын

Good to see and here the Tele again. It suits your style better than the PRS.

@kaalisalaatti 5 жыл бұрын

What was it that made these later era non-master volume amps so damn loud? Did these have bigger +B voltage? I used to own one of these and kind of tried to modify it to BF, but only from the board since I didn't dare to change rectifier or alter the power section. Mine had parts from '75 to '79. If I remember right the amp went clean all the way to max volume what was NOT something I wanted from a tube amp. After changing some components matching earlier era it kind of saturated a bit, but barely. I also biased it a bit hotter than it used to be. For me it was way too loud amp.

@ggilvis 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what the repair cost on most of that seemingly unnecessary work was. yes, I agree... good case for going one possible issue at a time. I'll check the tubes after I replace a bunch of stuff was a nice touch. also: nice guitar playing.

@ianskeggs5294 5 жыл бұрын

I heard a Wurlitzer eps through a valve Fender in a band live, never heard anything better since and that was over 40 years ago

@doyle4140 5 жыл бұрын

That tele is great.Can you do a quick video about it sometime?Cheers

@chrisphillips6865 5 жыл бұрын

Why did Fender always label the polarity of the negative bias diode incorrectly? I can only assume they labeled the anode negative to show flow of voltage through the diode?

@SeanKerns 5 жыл бұрын

When you were looking inside, I saw the Sharpie markings for color code from the OT to the tubes, and I said to myself, "That OT has been out, or been replaced." That's weird, though. I so seldom see actually blown OTs in Fenders.

@billyhughes9776 5 жыл бұрын

That amp sounds great.

@AndrewCalhoun 5 жыл бұрын

Great video. Interesting (artifacts?) at 21:47. Look like artifacts at first, but they are relatively stationary (albeit with a bit of a twitch), even when the underlying image is being smoothly scrolled up and down, making me wonder if the underlying source of them isn't a glare or something on the lens of that particular camera. More curious than anything.

@aliveandfilming2 5 жыл бұрын

Have you eve played or repaired a Tube-Tone amplifier? ( old fender clones)? I enjoy seeing all your guits, nice collection

@numptification 5 жыл бұрын

Eight minutes in and a thumbs up for the playing.

@terencekaye9948 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Brad,, wonderful to see you back at amp repairs :) Can you tell us what different cleaner you use for potentiometers? Thank you.

@TheGuitologist 5 жыл бұрын

It's in the description under "stuff I use".

@terencekaye9948 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brad.

@DalHap 5 жыл бұрын

Nice riffage in B there Bbbbbbbbbrad!!! Your Tele sounds nice on that amp.

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 5 жыл бұрын

You can use a NE556 where one side is used as a clock that drives the second half of the NE556 used as a modulator and should be used to drive high power transistor output stage which gets filtered and send back to inverting side of an operational amp which feeds into the control voltage input of the second half of the NE556, the signal gets fed into the non-inverting side of the operational amp that feeds the 2nd control voltage input of NE556 which is the modulator.