Inspection | '66 Tremolux Pt 1

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  • Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
  • A friend bought this '66 Tremolux from a dealer, and it's not exactly as described.
    He asked me to please go through it and document exactly what he received.
    Follow along as I look for any issues in this possible gem...
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    These are things I get asked about a lot :
    Amp Tech Gear Used :
    Hakko FX-951 soldering station
    Weller SPG 80L soldering iron (chassis work)
    Rigol DS1054Z digital oscilloscope
    Thsinde 18B+ digital multimeters
    Kester 60/40 solder
    Techspray #4 No-Clean Desoldering Braid
    Below are things that make this channel possible that people don’t usually think about. If any of these companies want to send me new and wonderful toys, I’m open to that. I can’t take free stuff when it comes to the amps I review, etc, but for the stuff below, bribe away!
    Microphones/Audio Equipment :
    Guitar Amps : Royer R-10 Hot Rod and/or Shure SM57 (noted in videos)
    Voiceover Bench : sE Audio sE8 (small diaphragm condenser)
    Voiceover Streaming : Shure SM57 with shockmount and windscreen
    Voiceover Mic Arms : Elgato Wave Mic arms
    Guitar Mic Stand : Gator Frameworks short weighted base stand with boom
    Mic Cables and Guitar Cables : Mogami/Neutrik
    Mic pre : MOTU M2
    DAW : Logic Pro II on MacBook Pro 16 running Sonoma 14.5
    Plugins : No effects other than level matching/normalization unless a recording
    specifically has reverb etc added in post (rare, various Waves plugins)
    Monitors : Yamaha HS7s
    Monitor Stands : Gator Frameworks Desktop Clamp-On Stands
    Monitor Isolation Mounts : IsoAcoustics Iso-Puck Minis
    Headphones : Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (main)
    Headphones : Sony MDR-7506 (alternate)
    Video Equipment :
    Camera : Sony ZVE-10 with SmallRig Cage (main)
    Lens : Sigma f2.8 18-50mm (main)
    Lens : Sony ZVE10 kit lens (rarely used)
    B Camera : Apple iPhone 13 Pro (rarely used)
    Tripod : SmallRig 71” with SmallRig Fluid Video Head
    Streaming Mount : Elgato Master Mount S with SmallRig Ballhead
    Bench Light : SmallRig RC 120D
    Bench Light Diffusor : SmallRig Lantern Softbox
    Bench C-Stands (light and overhead camera) : Neewer Pro SS Heavy Duty
    Streaming Light : SmallRig RC 120B
    Streaming Diffusor : SmallRig Parabolic Softbox
    Streaming Light Mount : SmallRig 148CM Wall Mount Boom with Triangle Base
    Various Other Lights : Neewer LED Panels with Neewer Softboxes
    Video Software :
    Davinci Resolve 19
    Phantom LUTs
    Paul Leeming LUTs
    Adobe Illustrator 28
    Adobe Photoshop 25
    Ecamm Live (streaming software)

КОМЕНТАРІ • 56

  • @PsionicAudio
    @PsionicAudio  3 місяці тому +19

    Maybe I should give this a clickbait title…
    People love hyperbole…

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 3 місяці тому +1

      I love irony, sarcasm, puns and wordplay, even double-entendre ---- but not clickbait or hyperbole....

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 3 місяці тому +2

      Whenever I look around on reverb it amazes me that the vast majority of sellers almost never list the tube types used in an amplifier, and rarely do they even give a decent photo well lit photo of the inside of the rear cabinet to show the tubes and transformers; you're lucky if they include a half decent photo of the back of the speaker with a little light shining on it. Nobody ever shows the inside circuitry.

    • @audunrundberg9180
      @audunrundberg9180 3 місяці тому +3

      You wont believe what I found inside this one weird amp they don’t want you to know about
      (Spilling errror intentional for maximum triggering)

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 3 місяці тому +1

      @@audunrundberg9180 , yup, you nailed it. Millions of UA-camr's "cry Wolf!" every day, so why should we believe them?

    • @JoshRoberts-fo5gq
      @JoshRoberts-fo5gq 3 місяці тому

      Fuckin A today's my birthday 🎉

  • @mattjohnson6916
    @mattjohnson6916 3 місяці тому +6

    A nice cup of coffee and a new Psionic Audio video are the best way to start out a Monday (especially when you're having to work late tonight)!

  • @colbyjack7074
    @colbyjack7074 3 місяці тому +6

    This is a fair inspection. Very realistic and informative to both the buyer and seller. Nicely done Lyle.

  • @FreeLoader501
    @FreeLoader501 3 місяці тому +2

    If I’m buying an expensive vintage amp, is it too much to ask for a pic of all the date codes and a gut shot? There is no reason to be surprised. Right?

  • @matthewf1979
    @matthewf1979 3 місяці тому +7

    Honestly, I’d keep it if they kicked back a couple hundred bucks. That Bassman OT is so much more gigworthy than the puny 35 watt model.
    Surely whoever installed that 110uf worth of reservoir cap didn’t leave the amp tube rectified. Shirley…..

    • @PsionicAudio
      @PsionicAudio  3 місяці тому +6

      Yeah, I decided not to go into it. I’m famously “too negative” as it is. Caps are from ‘05 anyway.
      The point here was originality, functionality, and safety.

    • @GetTheLedOut8585
      @GetTheLedOut8585 3 місяці тому

      ​ @PsionicAudio To the GZ34: "You were in terrible peril!"

    • @rdubyaB
      @rdubyaB 3 місяці тому

      The original OT would have been p/n 022848 if I'm not mistaken, same as in the Bandmaster, Pro Reverb and Vibrolux Reverb at the time. Fender got a lot of use out of that transformer.

  • @Stratguy83
    @Stratguy83 3 місяці тому

    I have this amp. Looking forward to more in this series!!!

  • @nedward5871
    @nedward5871 3 місяці тому

    Nicely done. The joy of the Tremolux is the undersized Output Transformer vs. the Bassman so that you can drive it harder at lower volumes. I had a 65 Bandmaster with a replacement Bassman OT and a 65 Tremolux and different squishiness.
    Great amp and wonderful through a 2x10 Weber Alnicos or just about any other cab!

  • @JuanLuna-ew3zo
    @JuanLuna-ew3zo 3 місяці тому

    Does anybody here know if Lyle thinks Bad Cat amps are good amps??? @PsionicAudio
    I ordered a used TopHat King Royale that I’m trying to return. It’s got a loud hum. The rectifier tube was broken in transit but it was replaced. I’m trying to send that little Tank bad though, I have a feeling the hum has something to do without being damaged during transit.

  • @Satchmoeddie
    @Satchmoeddie 3 місяці тому

    Amp teching in most retail stores is an adventure in getting it making guitar noises again ASAP so we can get it out on the sales floor, sold and out the door. Some shops would even nix the electrolytic recap jobs. "We can get at least a bench fee from the buyer later on!" No active store names here but not at all that uncommon. ************ was good for that kind of crappy repair work and other scummy practices. Oops, someone is actually using their name here! It was once a chain store.

  • @breathtimebreath4934
    @breathtimebreath4934 3 місяці тому +2

    Thank you Lyle!!!!! We are all so grateful for your support and genius🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏👊👊👊🎸🎸🎸

  • @rustymohican8280
    @rustymohican8280 3 місяці тому +2

    Such a beautiful Fender sound. I love watching you care for these special amps.

  • @middle_pickup
    @middle_pickup 3 місяці тому +1

    Does the shielded cable add capacitance over normal twisted wire? Can that change the tone?

  • @gerardlabelle9626
    @gerardlabelle9626 3 місяці тому +1

    “Unlikely to electrocute you immediately.” Made me laugh.

  • @12stringblues
    @12stringblues 3 місяці тому +1

    My next amp might be a Blonde Bandmaster or a Blackface Tremolux any suggestions on these choices. Thanks

    • @PsionicAudio
      @PsionicAudio  3 місяці тому +1

      Either can be great, one might be more correct for you. Play them first if you can.

  • @briancassidy6678
    @briancassidy6678 3 місяці тому +1

    Sounded very nice out here in UA-cam land.

  • @sgt.grinch3299
    @sgt.grinch3299 3 місяці тому +2

    Sounds good to me.

  • @Lu_Woods
    @Lu_Woods 3 місяці тому +2

    Sounds pretty sweet.

  • @superreverbking
    @superreverbking 3 місяці тому +1

    Great sounding old Fender. Miles ahead of some of the new 68 series reissues you've worked on.

    • @kevinmurtagh4996
      @kevinmurtagh4996 3 місяці тому

      Is there a 68 reissue Tremolux? Or you mean just 68 reissues in general?

    • @superreverbking
      @superreverbking 3 місяці тому

      @@kevinmurtagh4996 In general

  • @giulioluzzardi7632
    @giulioluzzardi7632 3 місяці тому

    After your " Once over" that amp is ready to do what it was designed to do. I used to have a white tolex version (22 watts) running through a 4x12 Vox cab and I loved it but a friend used a guitar lead rather than a speaker lead to connect the Tremolux to the Vox cab and one day he damaged the transformers which caused it to emit a bolt of lightning (blue). Your one sounds fantastic, if you are going to use it a lot the beefier Bass-man transformer is a good upgrade. If it were mine I would remove the Fender badge.

  • @rdubyaB
    @rdubyaB 3 місяці тому

    Nice amp! I had a chance to buy one complete with cab about 30 years ago but didn't since I'd already bought a SF Pro Reverb a few months earlier. Oh well.

  • @DanielC__
    @DanielC__ 3 місяці тому

    To me it sounded GREAT! As soon as you plugged in the Strat both the normal and vibrato channel sounded fabulous. I hope he bought that amp, I would have!

  • @J_B72
    @J_B72 3 місяці тому

    That amp sounds great.
    Buyer shouldn’t let the X-former impact decisions.
    Replace the shielded cable (ugly), clean some things up…. It’ll sound wonderful for 15 years.

  • @Joe-mz6dc
    @Joe-mz6dc 3 місяці тому

    I'm always stunned at the power and clarity of Fender tremolo

  • @davegenske8973
    @davegenske8973 3 місяці тому +1

    Another great video

  • @Splattle101
    @Splattle101 3 місяці тому

    If the buyer keeps it, they could take the blue molded death cap and use it in the preamp instead of one of the orange drops.

  • @alvagoldbook2
    @alvagoldbook2 3 місяці тому

    Lyle! I’m surprised you missed this! 5AR4/GZ34 rectifiers have a max reservoir capacitor value of 60uF. Nice filter cap job, but if it has two 220uF in parallel that’s 110uF on the reservoir! 😬😬😬

    • @PsionicAudio
      @PsionicAudio  3 місяці тому +4

      I didn’t miss it, just didn’t focus on it here.

  • @David-gx9lh
    @David-gx9lh 3 місяці тому

    "Unbiased". I see what you did there :)

  • @watkinscopicat
    @watkinscopicat 3 місяці тому

    never noticed that “Columbia Record Distribution Corp” thing on these before?

  • @mtbmadman011
    @mtbmadman011 3 місяці тому

    That trem is fantastic

  • @victorbeebe8372
    @victorbeebe8372 3 місяці тому

    Aloha Lyle!

  • @richardlynch5632
    @richardlynch5632 3 місяці тому

    😎👍👍

  • @shane011471
    @shane011471 3 місяці тому +5

    Nothing wrong with that amp at all. Who gives a S!@# If it's not the "Original" transformer may I ask? as the one that is in it is better than the stock factory unit. Stuff gets old and fails from time to time so get over it and move on. Do not beat up the seller as I can bet that he OR she did not even know about it in the first place. Just play the damn thing and enjoy it as it's a nice sounding amp! Some "Vintage Amp Guy's" are every bit as bad as the HIFI crowd in thinking that a 6-foot speaker cable that JUST costs $100 is not as good as one that is ten times as much! Not talking about the author of this video at all as he does good work, and no disrespect was intended.

    • @DanielC__
      @DanielC__ 3 місяці тому

      AGREED on all points. Well said mate!

    • @danielmargolis3210
      @danielmargolis3210 3 місяці тому +3

      Collectors might care.

    • @shane011471
      @shane011471 3 місяці тому

      @@danielmargolis3210 Sure, and if you were a collector, you would know how to pull the chassis and read a date code.

    • @derekmccauley6772
      @derekmccauley6772 3 місяці тому +1

      It's really only a problem because it wasn't described accurately by the seller. It is relevant to the value of the amp for a collector.

    • @shane011471
      @shane011471 3 місяці тому +1

      @@derekmccauley6772 I do not know as I have never seen the ad, OR what was said at the POS. It always comes down to (Buyer Beware) You can spend something like 3 minutes on Google and learn how to read a date code correct? If the buyer was so concerned about it, he should have had it inspected BEFORE PURCHASE!!!!! and it is one hundred percent on him for not doing his own due diligence! How many times has this amp been sold throughout its life and how much work was done and by whom? At a certain point it gets lost in the wash so to speak. Sorry as I should have just said POS= Point of sale so it was not mistaken (maybe) as piece of shit!