Lazy J J20 (Part 2)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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Equipment:
Soldering:
Pace MBT station w/SX100 & PS-90 handpieces
Hakko 474 w/815 handpiece
Hakko 936 w/907 handpiece
Hakko FX-888D w/FX-8801 handpiece
Quick 861DW hot air station
BOFA fume extraction unit
Loctite Multicore solder (C511 / 362)
Test Equipment:
Fluke 11, 175, 177 & 179 handheld DMM's
Tektronix 2236 analog oscilloscope
Rigol DS-1054z digital oscilloscope
BK Precision 4017A sweep / function generator
BWD 160a function generator
HP 6236B triple output DC power supply
Kyoritsu 3132A insulation / continuity tester
Video equipment:
Overhead cam: Panasonic HC-V785 w/Audio Technica AT9946CM mic
Handheld cam: Panasonic DC-G85 w/Olympus M.Zuiko Pro 12-40mm f/2.8
On location cam: Panasonic DC-GH5s w/Panasonic-Leica 9mm f/1.7 & 12-60mm f/2.8
Capture card(s): Magewell HDMI USB, ATEN UC3020-AT, ATEN UC3021
Headset Mic: Audio Technica BP892xcW-TH
Lapel Mic: Rode Go
Editing: Adobe Premiere Elements
Hand Tools:
Wiha, Felo, Stanley screwdrivers
CK & Engineer cutters / pliers
RS Pro wire strippers
Sidchrome & Gear Wrench spanners, sockets & shifters
Veritas planes & chisels
Materials / Consumables:
JJ's / TAD electron valves
Elixir / Ernie Ball / D'Addario / Rotosound strings
Electrolube & DeoxIT cleaners, lubricants & chemicals.
We love your sense of humor over here in the states. Keep the good times rolling champion..!
Seriously! I just found this channel and the humor is the reason I stay!!! Haha
Yanks have a really hard time understanding our dry Aussie sense of humour... we're never literal and all the ribbing is meant in good fun ... you'd know all about it if/when we get genuinely upset about something (or 'crack the shits' as we say over here) :-)
I want to like this twice for the title.
Screw famine is a great name for a band!
This kiwi loves the commentary. A hobbyist can learn lots from a bad design described by a great tech.
I watch these videos because I like being called a champion by Aussie amp techs
man, your sense of humour is one of the reasons i love your channel👍🏻
Don't know how you manage not to be overwhelmed some of these repairs are rebuilds love your work .If my Mesa TranceAtlantic 15 fails I now know who's fixing it 😅
I actually considered one of these many many years ago. That crooked tube is killing me :D
An old buddy of mine had a decent 5E3 clone. He told me I wouldn’t need my Muff and he was right. Such a great, nasty overdrive. And it was very loud for the size. Maybe one day…
I love your videos and Insta posts. As a tech myself, it's nice to watch other techs doing their thing. You always learn something. All the best, Dries - Solodallas Europe
Good finish with the tie in to ECSR!
Yer sense of humor's right up my alley!
I prefer the term "critical thinker"....and sometimes there's just a lot to be negative about....
This junk looks like something I would have done in my younger experimenting days - I certainly wouldn't consider selling it to anyone, let alone for a premium "boutique" price. Love the Suntan caps too....
Love your work, mate - keep it up!
So $8000 will buy you this poorly executed monstrosity. It’s almost criminal.
with 8000 $ you can build 8 great amps (cost of parts) , seriously
Appliance designs are meant to take into account fire hazards, they should have installed a fire extinguisher in the amp
Having seen this , I'd decline it if one ever comes my way . Hahaha .Cheers
Revisiting your content and I’m not upset one bit with your thoroughness and professionalism. And too effin bad if you sound negative this work was not worth 8 stacks.
I don't know man, the most recent hatred was just straight up ill-informed and inaccurate.
I have evidence of their correspondence and it was petty and vitriolic.
Claiming I staged the whole video series which is quite pathetic.
I don't have time to do that shit, and frankly, why would I care?
I don't know any parties involved and have no incentive to do anything dishonest.
These people are religious brand-zealots and I don't think I'll ever understand the messed up psychology behind such a phenomenon.
I threw the gauntlet down to one local nutcase who claimed I faked it all or was dishonest.
I asked him to bring in his amp and I'll have a look and publicly acknowledge if the sample I had was different and in what ways.
Then he resorted to ad-hominem attacks and convoluted justification for what I documented.
Such people are a waste of breath, mate. Let them waste their money and let us laugh at them ad-infinitum.
@@BradsGuitarGarage thank you for letting this be known. It seems every trade is filled with dicks a-swingin.
Recently subscribed to your channel, I enjoy your videos.Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise.Keep up the fantastic content.Watching from Alabama.
Enjoying ya vids 👊🏻
Keep the sarcasm, i love it. I would react exactly the same if i had that crap on the bench.
Lazy J name is appropriate.
Where are these amp shaped items made? It's criminal charging money for that
I thought you were joking about the band name at the end. Searched just to be sure. Listened to one of their songs ("Which Way To Go") and it rules. You are a champion, sir! Thanks for recommendation.
You’re not negative….. you talk like a Tech. Sometimes ya gotta laugh or you’ll cry.
Lol, I love it as an IT guy - this is the same sort of talk I hear every day in my dept. 🤣
Freakin' Pizza Sheet!
Why not use the big long Bud box down the right side of the amp and stick the trem & reverb into only ONE sub chassis? It it won't fit go to a metal shop that has a box and pan brake. Thunderbird Signs is my chassis shop. It's a sign shop so if they can make metal boxes in the shapes of every letter in the alphabet all the numbers from 0 to 9, signs, symbols and punctuation, they can make me a chassis in almost any shape or dimension too.
I think that's the model of transformer that was fitted to mine after it blew up. Note that the cable that plugs into the DIY reverb unit receives the entire pre amp signal from the chassis lol
Yes it does! Ridiculously silly, but hey. Who am I to say?
Looking forward to this horror show.
Considering the price of the amplifier you'd think they'd put the reverb tank in a bag.
“Also, since modern mass production techniques are usually cost driven, one often finds that corners are cut in the quality of the parts that are used as well as the production process…’good enough’ is often sufficient. Conversely, when you build amps by hand, you can choose to do better than that. You can choose to make things better than they have to be…”
😉
Oofff. Knock Lazy J off the list. What a weird build...
Sadly Brad there are some things the world needs to be told and in a particular manner,if you didn't laugh you'd cry so keep doing as you wish and saying as you want
I’ve made a 5e3 kit that I built a few years ago. One day I’ll get around to tweaking it a bit but I’ve always wondered about how close the 6v6s are to the Alnico blue speaker magnet. Not touching but close. Wondering if the speakers magnetic field would effect electrons passing through the valves.
WRT Jackcon caps, I received a bunch from our fav local supplier W#S in place of usual Jamicon. Checking the fine print on website, they did spec substitutes where orig unavailable. Sigh!
Okay, okay, I clicked the like button ---- but if I went on vacation by myself, my missus would almost certainly throw something of mine in the bin that I don't actually want to go in the bin, and in that case I would expect you to rescue it for me!
man... what a strange strange way to build an amp! lol
There are much better ways, right!?
@@BradsGuitarGarage I may not be an amp builder, but I’ve been hangin around long enough to know there’s better ways!
meth
@@curtiseverett1671 LOLOL 😂
you'd need a manual to work out which bin goes out when for our council - and FMI junked it before it became a Production Run...
Uhh, that thing is weird. As for fender ,, at the end of the Tweed era fender was making a stand slone trem unit as well as a reverb unit. uhh say 1960. they were very cool units. i think of those units as the first pedals.
Nothing wrong with your sense of humor Brad you'd fit in with my circle, of Big city battle scared retired cops.😂
I'm no amp tech, but seeing a fan pointed at a PT makes me shiver. NOPE!
Standard for ampeg svt …but that’s a lot of power
There's a manual on the Lazy J website
Part 3, just 8 min. old, must watch Part 2, first; Nov.-12-2023✝️
Wow. What a special piece of gear. 😂
Hi Brad. You may have already noticed, but those 6L6's look really cooked to me. They usually have red writing on them.
No, these have gold writing on them. Not sure when they changed, but I have some new ones in stock with the same gold silk screening print.
Cheers chief! 🛹🏄🏼♂️🌏👍🇨🇦
As an amateur in 5E3 building that is a total shot show. I built one years ago and it looked better that that abomination. Also used to build the Boxes for them for a while. I'll give you $600 bucks for it!
It really does look like an amateur build. It looks like something I would put together.....
And if the frankstein amp comes back to life, will the forthcoming replacement speaker be considered the bride of Frankenstein?
BTW: It looks like lazy J designed the monster to run on either 6L6 or 6v6. Maybe with 6v6's you can save the speaker.
Holy Actual, That is a standard deluxe size PT, but it uses low grade core steel, like M400. To get a decent deluxe PT with that stack size on 50Hz supply it has to be M6 steel. So either the wire on that is really thin to run the lams properly and way too thin for 2 6L6's or they are running the lams so hard that its close to saturating and would cause failure. idiotic.
5:20, ...."must have been during the great screw famine of *1922*...." I wouldn't know as that was a little before my time, and I'm older than dirt😉!
I didn't notice the oily fans on part 1
I get your humor, i'm exactly the same way! Carry on bro don't worry about those sensitive Millennials. 😂
It seems to be more the older blokes that I piss off the most.
They don't like their mindset being challenged at all, they love to believe what all the magazines tell them to believe.
@@BradsGuitarGarage Lol, I'm 62 and I love your dry, acerbic humor. It's why I also sub to twoodfrd and Psionic's channels. 👍
8000? I search on Reverb and they're selling for about 4000 brand new in the UK. is there an australian tax of 4000 for importing amps?
reverb.com/au/item/74309668-lazy-j-j-20-tweed-combo-vac-fully-loaded-tremolo-and-reverb-2023
reverb.com/au/item/50383191-lazy-j-20-2021
reverb.com/au/item/74225587-lazy-j-lazy-j-j20-with-reverb-vac-and-tremolo-in-lacquered-tweed
Add to that GST and import charges.
There's also the scarcity factor as I hear it's a long wait and/or hard to get on the wait list.
Not sure how true that is because clearly, I'm not in the market for one. LOL!
Wow….one year?
I want one
i would love to know who you think a really great 5e3 maker is? Victoria maybe? always wanted a 5e3 but it seems to be a minefield of bad copies.
I've heard good things about Victoria, but yet to see one up close.
They didn't see him coming ..(the purchaser) they sent for him
I’m watching this thinking that’s a lot of money for an amp that looks a bit oddly constructed at best.
I'm here for the humor myself. Dont mind the nay sayers
I bet those cows that this whole amp is a TAD 5E3 kit with miscellaneous TAD ala cart parts to fill in the rest of the heap. Disgraceful and outright fraudulent if true.
Moooooo
It does look like a TAD chassis, right down to the laser cut details in the internal corners.
I use the CE Distribution ones as they have a standby switch instead of ground.
And the writing on the control panel is laser-etched so it doesn't wear off like the silk-screened TAD ones.
Silk screening a polished chrome surface always seemed kinda silly to me.
@@BradsGuitarGarage over time,, Silkscreening on Chrome often becomes almost allergic to many cleaners especially Windex or anything with ammonia. Windex will remove silk screening from old McIntosh hifi gear almost instantaneously. For anything old with silk screening we often use Never dull which is a cottony mineral-wool wedding impregnated with some kind of light petroleum stuff. We haven't seen it damage anything yet and it's really good for polishing chrome, brass and so on.
@@goodun2974 It's great stuff and a single can seems to last ages. Does leave a slight film behind tho
@@mnemonik61 , yes, and the oily film gets wiped off with a soft rag or microfiber cloth. Anyway, I subscribe to the Hipocratic Oath when it comes to cleaning vintage electronics: First, do no harm! Always start with something gentle that isn't known to cause any kind of damage and if it's not sufficient at cleaning then you step up a half notch or so with other stronger cleaning products until success is achieved.
😵💫Looks like you have no Idea what you are dealing with! 😂 Just jabbering… BTW: It hast been build in the UK and not „in the States“…. Still Best AMP on the Planet! Greetings from good old GERMANY!
This is sad. The 5E3 circuit is a perfect creation from the genius minds of Leo and Company. Sure, there are a few things that can be done to bring it into the modern world. Better grounding. That's about it. Maybe a NFB switch. More than those, and the tone of the original creation suffers. Here's what is perplexing to me: this Lazy J guy knows something about amp circuits. He knows about reverb and tremolo circuits -- not easy stuff. Why would he throw it all into a box-too-small with a cheap chassis and obviously inadequate power tranny? What makes it worse: the guy has the knowledge and skills to do it right, but instead turns out this POS. I love the Tweed Deluxe, and have built dozens. I consider this Lazy J amp a personal affront -- me and Leo, standing shoulder to shoulder and looking pissed off. If a customer wants reverb and trem, build a different amp or build a stand-alone reverb/trem unit (like Leo already did!). Plenty of modern builders integrate tweed and brown-panel principles with reverb and tremolo, and do it successfully with designs based on good craftsmanship that last the test of time, respecting Leo's vision and bringing it into the modern world. Look at the Milkman Creamer for one example. Cathode bias 6v6 push-pull, reverb, and tremolo. It can be ordered with VVR. A nice compact combo amp with great styling and a maintainable circuit, for less than half the money of this thing. There are others.
Ok I'm done venting now. Thanks Brad for the exposé. This vid made me subscribe.
Do Ozzy fans blow Aussi-- ?😯 ( Since you guys pronounce both words almost identically; I intentionally didn't spell out the word completely because I figured it would get deleted by the algorithm)
Lazy J (Jesse Hoff) is based in the UK Brad, just goes to show ya..
Dont believe what Guitar mags write up on gear!!
Oh btw...bin nights tonight mate!
And Eddy Current Supression Ring... great band!! ( that was the edit bit!)
What a nightmare!
Someone was smoking the white pipe when they designed that one.
What a mess. Makes a 100 watt Wizard look like a bargain.
Someone should be getting back a total refund, what a piece of junk!
Well in the amp's defence, it does say lazy on the front....
Im building a trainwreck soon. The ugliest amps ever made. And most likely the second most over-hypeded builder of all time. Some builder freinds have kind of cringed when i told them , and certainly havent been enthusiastic about the endeavor...
But hey, they sound good and i kind of want to build all the real famous amps and be done with it.
I think I'll tell the boys im buildimg a lazy J next hahah. 😂
As far as you being negative.............
There is an established set of design best practices, many of the amplifiers you work on do not adhere to said practices.
Negative attitude, I don't see it, frustration and a dry sense of humor, yes, most certainly.
IMHO, considering the high price this Lazy J amplifier is an abomination.
Well, the craftsmanship on this $8000 amp is awful. I understand that it’s a normal price for an hand built boutique amplifier but this looks like a modified generic Chinese tube amp kit that is built by a sloppy beginner. And on top of that, it looks like the mods are overloading the power transformer. The addition of the cooling fan is the proof that they saw the problem but chose the most moronic way to try to solve it. In fact is that didn’t solve the problem, it just delayed the resulting failure. So we have to question the competency of the people who designed this amp.
Have the lazy j fanboys been putting it on you mate? 😂 I suppose if I'd spent 8 grand myself I'd be looking for someone to blame 😢
where are the sniveling lazy j fanboys?
Screw famine 😂
Babbies first amp design. Thing is atrocious in every way possible.
Lol, who the F are Lazy J and Why - just WHY are they selling what looks like somebody's hobby project as a professional amp? 🤦♂🤦♂
Bloody Hell, if they wanted 'verb and trem, just use the 763 Deluxe circuit ffs. Or the Princeton / Harvard like Brad said, lol. You could still put it in a tweed cab if you must have that 'vintage vibe.'
OMG, Brad. What a piece of crap. I think you have been remarkably self-controlled..
That amp is a complete and utter piss-take.
This amp has several points of failure
Smell of burning hair tells everything. I mean, it really smells bad!
Soup up a Honda Civic, but at the end of the day, still a Civic minus the bells n whistles....Do you think copper ring helps the flux hum? Funny how they positioned output xfmr at angle...makes me think they were struggling with noise
Back in the 1980s and acquaintance of mi had a Honda Civic with an engine that had been bored and sleeved for high horsepower. I took a scary ride in it at 120 miles an hour and was told it would do 160.
Negative or just well grounded in reality? Electric sense of humour with odd shocking comments. Some people need a slow blo fuse pal
Many lives were lost in the screw famine of 1922😂🤣😅🤣🥲