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Tone Twins TV is home to all thing’s 'guitar tone' related;
vintage guitars, vintage amps, DIY, pedals and more created by guitar journalists Huw Price and Ed Oleszko.
Huw Price began his career as a recording engineer and producer in the late 1980s, going on to work with David Bowie, Primal Scream, Nick Cave, Ian Dury, Fad Gadget, My Bloody Valentine and many others. His book ‘Recording Guitar & Bass’ (Backbeat/Balafon ISBN 0-87930-730-7) was published in 2002 and a career in journalism soon followed.
Since then, Huw has written reviews, interviews, workshop and technical articles for Guitar Magazine, Guitar Player, Acoustic Magazine, Guitar Buyer and Music Tech. He has also contributed to several books, including The Tube Amp Book by Aspen Pittman (ISBN-13: 978-0879307677).
Ed Oleszko is an experienced touring and recording sesion guitarist and vintage gear afficinado. Ed writes for Guitar Magazine.
vintage guitars, vintage amps, DIY, pedals and more created by guitar journalists Huw Price and Ed Oleszko.
Huw Price began his career as a recording engineer and producer in the late 1980s, going on to work with David Bowie, Primal Scream, Nick Cave, Ian Dury, Fad Gadget, My Bloody Valentine and many others. His book ‘Recording Guitar & Bass’ (Backbeat/Balafon ISBN 0-87930-730-7) was published in 2002 and a career in journalism soon followed.
Since then, Huw has written reviews, interviews, workshop and technical articles for Guitar Magazine, Guitar Player, Acoustic Magazine, Guitar Buyer and Music Tech. He has also contributed to several books, including The Tube Amp Book by Aspen Pittman (ISBN-13: 978-0879307677).
Ed Oleszko is an experienced touring and recording sesion guitarist and vintage gear afficinado. Ed writes for Guitar Magazine.
Joey Landreth Rig Run.. gear overview!
In this episode Ed sat down with our good friend Joey Landreth for a "gear overview!" before the final date of The Bros Landreth's 2023 UK tour.
A Special thanks to the wonderful photographer Gareth Bartlett (GB) whose beautiful photographs pepper this video.
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Huge thanks to Joey and The Bros Landreth for graciously giving us their time after soundcheck.
Go catch a show on this tour
Find out more info and the latest tour dates below:
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Ed and Huw
A Special thanks to the wonderful photographer Gareth Bartlett (GB) whose beautiful photographs pepper this video.
Instagram @gareth_bartlett
UA-cam @garethbartlett
Huge thanks to Joey and The Bros Landreth for graciously giving us their time after soundcheck.
Go catch a show on this tour
Find out more info and the latest tour dates below:
www.thebroslandreth.com/
Instagram @Thebroslandreth
UA-cam @Thebroslandreth
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Chris Buck's Offset Project - How To Build A Partscaster
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Chris Buck’s Offset Project How To Build A Partscaster In this episode Huw assembles an offset partscaster for Chris Buck using a mix of modern and vintage parts from Golden Era, Radioshop Pickups, Home Of Tone, Allparts UK and Reverb. If you’ve ever felt like putting together a partscaster, Huw shares tips on neck attachment, bridge and trem location, shielding and installing the electronics. ...
How To Upgrade An Epiphone - Joe Bonamassa Firebird Refurb (Part 2)
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Our Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Signature Firebird project concludes with spraying, relic’ing the finish, oxidising the exposed wood and ageing the metal and plastic parts. You can also hear how it sounds with a MojoAxe bridge, VIP potentiometers and a Sunbear pickup. Timings 0:00 Intro 1:33 Grain Filled 2:38 Spraying Starts 3:53 Colour Coats 4:33 Spraying Complete 5:29 Dents & Dings 8:04 Freeze Fra...
How to strip and refinish an Epiphone - Joe Bonamassa Firebird Refurb (Part 1)
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How To Refinish An Epiphone Guitar Have you have ever considered stripping, refinishing and upgrading and Epiphone guitar? If so, this video will show you how to do it. And the guitar we’re working on is a very special Joe Bonamassa Firebird. In this instalment we’ll be showing you the way to strip the finish back to bare wood and upgrade the fretboard inlays and side dots, and how to make the ...
How To Wind A Guitar Pickup - 1957 Stratocaster Pickup Restoration
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In this episode we head up to House Of Tone Pickups in Chester with Huw’s 1957 Stratocaster to sort out the middle pickup. The Bridge and neck settings sound like the real deal, but there’s something about the middle pickup that doesn’t quite cut it. Mat Bascetta identifies the issue and gives us a masterclass in scatter winding, magnet measuring and vintage pickup restoration. 0:00 Intro Jam 0...
How to relic a Tweed Amp - 1952 Fender Tweed Pro
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We promised we wouldn’t keep you waiting too long! In this episode, we detail the finishing and relic’ing of a freshly re-tweeded 1952 Fender ‘TV’ Pro amplifier. And after we show you how to put everything back together, Ed takes it for a test drive at Vintage Tone Factory Studio. To our eyes the shellac and nitro finish is the best way to achieve a vintage correct look, and you can apply these...
Fender Vibroverb Shootout 1963 vs 1964
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Tone Twins are back, after Huw has been busy building a workshop and Ed busy recording projects in his studio, we are finally back (with a special guest to boot!) In this episode we investigate the legendary Fender Vibroverb and compare the super rare original 1963 Brown Panel model with the infamous 1964 Black Panel version made famous by Stevie Ray Vaughan. We are joined by the magnificent Ay...
Rickenbacker 330 Revival - rewire and pickup swap
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Welcome to Tone Twins TV! Please subscribe to our channel. Tone Twins TV is home to all things 'vintage guitar tone' related; vintage guitars, vintage amps, DIY, pedals, boutique and more! Ever wondered why the reality of Rickenbackers has never quite matched your expectations? In this video we discover how the correct pickups and control wiring can give you that sixties sound you know from all...
Build your own Fuzz Face (Part 2) - THE SECRET TO ULTIMATE FUZZ TONE!
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In the 2nd and concluding part of our ‘Build Your Own Fuzz Face’ series we demonstrate how to test and select suitable transistors for this classic pedal. We also demonstrate how to bias the transistors by ear to make them sound as good as possible. And at the end, we finally get to hear how it sounds with a variety of guitars. The transistor tester - and indeed much of the inspiration for this...
Build your own Fuzz Face (Part 1) - Germanium, Silicon or both?
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Welcome to Tone Twins TV In this episode we get all fuzzy building our own Fuzz face. Building a boutique style Fuzz Face is one of the easiest DIY pedal projects but should you go with Silicon or Germanium transistors? With our design, you don’t have to choose because you can have both in one pedal and you can even combine them. You can find all the diagrams, close up photos and technical info...
Slash's Fender Tweed Princeton Restoration
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Huw tackles the restoration of a 5F2 Fender Princeton dated July 1957, with some cosmetic repairs a capacitor health check and component swaps where necessary. This amp turned out to be a real gem, offering sparkling clean tones as well as smooth tweedy overdrive. It’s more like a scaled down 5E3 Deluxe than an up-scaled 5F1 Champ. Post-restoration, the amp was purchased by Slash at Vintage N’ ...
Fender Deluxe Reverb Restoration - 1966 Vintage
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Welcome back to Tone Twins TV. This Week Huw tackles a lovely old 1966 Fender Deluxe Reverb on the work bench, giving it good check over and a couple of tone tweaks. Please subscribe and stay tuned for lots of new content coming soon! 00:00 Intro 01:20 Filter Capacitors 07:18 Mains Wiring Correction 11:24 Capacitor testing 22:25 Bias Check 24:43 Input Socket Cleanup 25:46 Outro 27:Amp Demo - us...
VINTAGE FENDER TWEED CHAMP 5D1 - Restoration & Demo
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Fender Tweed Champ 5D1 - Restoration And Demo Vintage N’ Rare Guitars in Bath sent us this 1954/1955 Fender Champ amplifier for restoration. Here we document the process and get to hear how it sounds. And if you like the amp, it’s currently for sale (May 2021) Long recognised as secret recording tone monster in the studio, check out Ed's original demo at the end of the video to hear how monstro...
Vintage 1963 Fender Strat SIDEWAYS vintage refret Pt 2
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Pre-CBS Neck Restoration Part 2 - With Sideways Refret Welcome back to Tone Twins TV! This week in pt.2 of the 1963 Strat Restoration Huw goes about fitting the frets sideways, only really useful for a vintage fender that is having its first ever re-fret, but as far as we know this is how Fender did it originally! Key Timings 0:00 Intro 0:51 Preparing the frets 2:51 Tapping frets in from the si...
Amazing Vintage 1963 Pre CBS Stratocaster Neck Restoration Pt 1
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1963 Pre-CBS Fender Stratocaster Neck restoration Part 1 - this might surprise you! Welcome to Tone Twins TV This is the first of a two-part series on restoring a 1963 Fender Stratocaster neck. Here we’ll be extracting the frets sideways, by tapping them out of the slots and repairing some nasty divots in the rosewood. Key Timings 0:00 Intro 0:57 Neck overview 2:12 Preparing for fret removal 7:...
Timmy Overdrive - Boutique Pedal DC Socket Repair
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Timmy Overdrive - Boutique Pedal DC Socket Repair
Best PAF replica? Greco Dry Z versus Vintage Gibson PAF
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Best PAF replica? Greco Dry Z versus Vintage Gibson PAF
You need one of these. Speaker Switch-box solution.
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You need one of these. Speaker Switch-box solution.
Vintage Fender 5E3 Tweed Deluxe, the greatest one ever?
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Vintage Fender 5E3 Tweed Deluxe, the greatest one ever?
LES PAUL 1952 Goldtop Gibson Les Paul tailpiece shootout!
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LES PAUL 1952 Goldtop Gibson Les Paul tailpiece shootout!
DIY Attenuator For Guitar - Great Low-Volume Tone
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DIY Attenuator For Guitar - Great Low-Volume Tone
Gibson ES330 Shootout - Budget ES335 Killer?
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Gibson ES330 Shootout - Budget ES335 Killer?
THE BEST EVER overdrive? Klon Centaur or Ts808 Tubescreamer?
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THE BEST EVER overdrive? Klon Centaur or Ts808 Tubescreamer?
Chris Buck 192 Stratocaster restoration Pt 7 - Ultimate Vintage Strat tone?
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Chris Buck 192 Stratocaster restoration Pt 7 - Ultimate Vintage Strat tone?
Chris Buck 1962 Stratocaster Restoration Pt 6 - Fixing a celluloid pick guard restoring vintage pots
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Chris Buck 1962 Stratocaster Restoration Pt 6 - Fixing a celluloid pick guard restoring vintage pots
Vintage Gibson PAF Pickups - Going under cover
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Vintage Gibson PAF Pickups - Going under cover
Chris Buck 1962 Stratocaster Restoration Pt 5
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Chris Buck 1962 Stratocaster Restoration Pt 5
1956 Gibson Les Paul Special Restoration Pt 1
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1956 Gibson Les Paul Special Restoration Pt 1
Chris Buck 1962 Stratocaster Restoration Pt 4
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Chris Buck 1962 Stratocaster Restoration Pt 4
This sir is an amazing video! So glad to see traditional cleaning techniques used. Legend!
What a massive improvement to that middle pickup you made there. I used to wind pickups 300 years ago. You wouldn't know cause you don't speak to others. The dinosaurs used to take me swimming 🏊♂️ Men are world famous liars. Deal with it.
I dont get the Butter Machine...way too gainy and raspy for me
I thought T referred to Thinline, rather than Twin? D was for Dual pickups. S was for Single pickup.
That ending feedback is amazing and thing that I like
Amazing tone, specialy on outro. Tomorrow i'll get my vintage 330 new purchase
I put a 1 meg pot just on the bridge pickup volume and now I have plenty of jangle from my 91 Rick 360/12 allthough this was just abit of a bodge quick job. I’d love to do exactly what you’ve done here! Do you know what resistance your pots are here? I think I’d go 500k when I do mine, hopefully soon ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Great video, I have ordered a set of pickups for my PRS from Matt, can’t wait for them to arrive.
I’ve got the JB firebird in sunburst and always wondered if I could have the polyurethane stripped and nitro finish applied. What do you think? Nightmare?!
Thanks for the video, I prefer the PAF's but the Maxons sound good too. I think they probably are similar quality to a modern high quality pickup like a Throbak etc.
I can hear the solo for "keep on loving you" in that beauty.
Ive just build this bad boi! What a tone. I also installed the bass roll off toggle but I cannot hear any percertible difference to the tone?
brown for me please
Great video. I hope to visit Wales someday, as my family history points there. I live in east Tennessee, USA. A lot of country, bluegrass, and mountain rock/southern rock music have come out this area from these old Fenders, and still does today. Great video, thanks for posting. Oh, is Humphrey a common name in your area?
Great video, very informative 👍🏼
The "Magic" tones that no profiler will ever emulate, 100% organic, a beautiful thing.
Please don’t use masking tape on amplifiers. It dries out, leaves residue and will alter the color and finish of the metal in 10 years when one removes doghouse again.
Why did you switch the transistors? You made no mention of it? Did they end up sounding bad and switched them out?
How did you strip the neck?
The way you handle that pointed round Cottmann watercolor brush makes me wonder if perhaps you're no stranger to the process of the good ol' ink and wash technique? Maybe I'm reading into it a bit much? I enjoy watercolor painting and guitar playing, so I couldn't help but notice that little round blue detail brush you used to apply the vinegar to the wood sample.
To say that you are a man who keenly appreciates a refined attention to detail is probably an understatement. I respect your pursuit of excellence.
Would be awesome to do this but I stay in africa where its impossible to get a job thanks to affirmative actdion (reverse racism) Nobody supplies those parts and nobody cares because everybody here is too stupid to even know their head from their arse so why bother at all anymore. Nobody cares...africa is obsessed with rap. They don't care about guitar or harp or whatever instrument. All they care about is rap. spitting bullshit lyrics as if they all gona be 2pac. imagine living in that alternate universe of bullshit.
Perfect. Thanks so much.
I’m about to start this with an IBG Epi Junior. Do you have advice on getting the poly off the neck? There is no binding and the poly covers the sides of fretboard. I’m afraid this is where I’ll make a mistake.
This 59 was for sale on Reverb 5 years ago for$329,000. The pickups are the ones that were always In the guitar they just took the covers off.
BTW how does a guy from Massachusetts end up winding pickups in Chester?
World 🌎 famous liars. Deal with your terrible World wide reputation at some point in your short life.
My Dad's '56 sunburst had quite neat and uniform coils, slightly bulbous in the middle, coil impedance varied from one multimeter to the next, average 5.8k. I have yet to hear a better sounding electric guitar.
World famous liars. Deal with your World famous reputation.
I had to laugh at Dave Hunter's article about how there's no such thing as "hand winding". He stated the obvious; how nobody sits down at a table with a bobbin and a spool of wire and winds it with their bare hands. I laughed and thought "nobody thinks that!" which may not be ENTIRELY true, but come on! The problem is, he doesn't know what "hand winding" actually means, which is bizarre, considering his profession and seeing as how there are thousands of videos on youtube of people doing it - like this one. Really like this one.
No black wax, too uniform, wrong color and..........they didn't use zip-ties in the '50s. Fun video.
There are a lot more of these Champs on popular recordings than you'd think, like Clapton's first album, and Duane Allman and Clapton using one on Layla studio sessions
My dear old grandad did wind pickup wire by hand. Well that is to say a hand cranked spinner and guiding the wire with the other. I still have the little jig in my shed. He built it from the guts of an old clock and its mounted on a breadboard. He taught my dad how to make them and me too, but i have never been able to make any money from it as pickups are easy to get now.
and thats why real vintage will always sound better because hes hand cranking it and the modern 'hand wound' actually use a computer based scatter program, whereas a computer csn only simulate randomness, it cant create true chaos like an organic human
@@roberttodd2414real vintage pickups weren’t hand cranked either. They used large machines where humans only guided the wire
@capaya8139 honestly I doubt they weren't hand cracked in the 40s and 50s, at the most they were very primitive electric machines controlled by a foot pedal, there were no computer algorithms. I mean when did electric sewing machines really come in? 60s and 70s? And that was a way bigger industry. My grandma was a seamstress and she used a foot pedal cranked non electric sewing machine up until she retired in the early 2000s cause that's what she trained on, and she was a trained typist too, and used an old school typewriter her whole life. I dunno, I've got some awsome old books about fender with some great photos, guess I'll take a look
@@roberttodd2414 most boutique pickup winders dont use computer aided winding machines. 90% of them are just simple motors with a turn counter that are manually stopped
Could you take a picture of it? Even better make a video of it?
I gotta go to work in 6 hours, was about to go to bed… but now I’m here having a cigarette and watching this beautiful video. Funny is that I was not even looking for guitar repaint videos, was just watching some upgrade ideas for my firebird… btw I didn’t find any good but at least the algorithm referred this video to me randomly and I loved it. Great video mate, just subscribed :) Out of curiosity if you don’t mind me asking, how much would be such type of work roughly? Without relic just the repaint. I was not looking for such mod for my guitar but I want to be prepared if I decide to do such thing in the future :)
I used a 8 ohm and when I measure on the input it goes from 8 - 40 ohms. I thought it should stay the same
You missed the transition period P90 covers in 1962, which were nickel plated black plastic covers. The plating didn't wear well, so they soon switched to nickel plated metal covers. I have a 62 ES-330TD in tobacco burst, transition nickel plated balck plastic P90 covers, Bigsby trem, Stinger neck, and tiger maple back. Have had it for eons and love it!! Those P90s are incredible.
Alnico 3?
Were the strings changed ?
Lol good point
Fantastic video, very educational, thank you! The chimeyness in those pickups is insane, what a great tone the 50’s spec low-output pickups had. Is the chimey tone more down to the resistance, the wire gauge or coating? The magnets? Potting? I’ve always been super curious about what causes the chime and bell-like tones in vintage strat pickups! Nothing harsh nor hairy-fuzzy. So warm and clean.
Hey, you've been telling people to shut up cause YOU KNOW IT ALL, but now you're acting like you DIDN'T know it all. Guess what? Your public pose didn't fool anyone. We could tell you had NO CLUE about this topic and most topics.
I have a set of Maxons' and they have a verry good balance of low and high frequances .It's hard to explain what a sound can make you feel good.
Hi Huw - any chance you could post a link to the free backing track? Thanks!
They’re incorrect about the vibrato on the brownface. The 1960-1963 Fender vibrato circuits use three 12ax7s to create a harmonic pitch-based vibrato, not the volume based tremolo that began in 1964 with the blackface circuits.
That wooden wall behind you, is gorgeous!
Great to watch - and very informative. I have a similar DIY-built amplifier and it's great. One question: I've heard people say that you should use a separate bolt for the protective earth connection, and also that a crimp connector has greater longevity than a solder connection. This is all about the vibration - both in terms of joints getting loosened and movement-induced fatigue in a critical electrical joint. What are your thoughts on this, please?
Thanks for the great video. Any chance you might modify the Gemini diagram to show the push pull .0047 circuit? I see there there is more going on than the switch wiring, but I can’t quite see it fully. Thanks for consideration
I select my instruments (amps too) based on what kind of sound I need, and 330s do nice sounds that most others won't. I had my first used ('63) 330 back in 1965. Cost me £120... and I loved it!
also the black wire at the top end of the trim pots, at the junction of the upper trim pots.... where is that wire going to please. Overall a great vid just missing a few connections that seeemed to not get mentioned.
hi the 100k resistor has a red lead on the bottom turret, can you please say where that red wire is connected to on the other end?
Very good video. their summaries are excellent. I wouldn't trade my brown for anything, but having listened to Stevie many times back in my Austin days, I'm so aware of the awesomeness of the black 15. Possibly the two best guitar amps ever made. -- Gator
Yes. You can definetelly tell the difference when comparing pickups of the same type but different resonance frequency. You can also make them have the same resonance frequency and compensate amp's gain to their output.
Can I ask what is the lower temp setting you use when soldering the transistors into the switches?
your saying a switching mono jack - but that looks like a stereo jack? Are they called something different in the US - I can't find a "switching mono jack" for sale anywhere and I can't really quite see what the jack is in the video - sure looks like a TRS stero jack? But it seems you wouldn't want a stero jack in this particualr situation because you'd want it to be shorting to not blow the amp