The Deluxe Didn't Run or To Err is Human
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It’s been eight years since I lived in Vermont and hung out every Saturday morning with Dan Lurie at FYD Amps, watching him build, and having him walk me through amp builds of my own.
In 2021 I had this idea for a video where we’d start with a Mojotone Deluxe Reverb kit and then we’d get together and “bang it out.” Well…last weekend we finally got everything together and did that. I thought you’d enjoy coming along for the ride.
Keith
My vintage ‘66 Deluxe Reverb has been my main gigging workhorse since I bought it 25 years ago, and among my several vintage hand-wired Fenders, it’s hands-down the sweetest amp I’ve ever heard anywhere, ever. It’s a keeper for life. 👊😎🎵🎶
"Where's the story in that?"
And that's why we have Five Watt World.
Thanks Keith. ❤
I remember Heath kits, too...best friends brother in law built his own TV....we both thought that was the coolest thing ever (early 80's)....and it worked...mostly
Back in the day I gigged a Heath Kit TA17 with a par of TA17A (if i remember correctly). This was like in the late 60's through early 70's. It had the reverb channel and the PA channel wired together to provide more mid range. Didn't work all that bad. Played a Supro Lexington 3 pickup which I still have. Lot of amp to hall around. Now I run and Vox AC-15.
Great story with your father. You’re the Master storyteller, Keith.
Thanks Shane
Definitely worth while to recone, I had an EVM 12L bought in 1980, in ‘98 I fried the voice coil, but saved it for better days (&$) in 2016 i reconed it! Wow. Best speaker ever. (Although NOT lightweight!)
I have a 65 DRRI, the wine red exclusive from sweet water. Love to plug straight in and play big clean tones. Cheers 🍻 Keith. Thanks!
Hi Keith, if you're into older Robben Ford I'd like to plug his first solo album from '79 called "The Inside Story". Great material, and the sound is his old 335 thru various BF Fenders incl a Super. Fave cuts are "Tee Time For Eric" (for Richard Tee and Eric Gale from Stuff) and "Magic Sam".
(For the RF nerds like me; the band members Robben used on that album joined Robben the next year and became the Yellowjackets, which Robben left after the 2nd album.)
Heathkit first made mono tube amps, a school friend in 1975 owned 2 twin 6L6 mono amps that later became the basis for the ST-70 stereo amp
You know I waiver about changing pickups and I am a decent solderer... so kudos to you for tackling this (even with help!)! Impressive. I started with a Roland JC50 ... then a Peavey Renown then straight into a silver face Twin that was as heavy as it was paint peeling loud! Finally a couple years ago (and this is now ... well 20 something ;) years after the twin) got a Deluxe (Vintage Sound 22 in my case) and yeah. Hard to beat as a do it all even for a Vox circuit guy like me. Everyone should play one and ideally own one.
Thanks Keith. 🙂
I built a ‘65 Princeton Reverb amp (from a kit). I was able to get a really nice Princeton reverb label to put in “the big black space”, but customized to replace the Fender in the Fender amp subscript with my name. So fun to see.
I recently got a Headstrong Lil King (same model as Zac Childs). I am very aware that this is an expensive amp and that I am a lucky guy. I am head over heals in love with it. It is amazing. I just can't believe it and will never part with it. It is completely quiet, no hum, no hiss and sounds unexplainably wonderful. I have never played a vintage amp, but the feeling I get playing the Headstrong must be similar to the feeling I have heard described by people that have played great vintage Fenders. If anyone is able to get a Headstrong, don't hesitate. Finally, I built a Stewmac champ kit earlier this year. It is fine, but I don't think it is "good enough" to be anyone's only amp. I am glad I built it for the learning experience, but with the Headstrong here, the Champ won't get used much.
Now it’s great!
I had casters on my early 70's twin but carrying that thing up 6 flight of stairs after gigs back to the rehearsal room at 3 am was not fun even in my early 20's that thing was a killer but with 2 jbl that thing was a monster wish i still had it but the bass player has it now :(
I have a mid-70’s Twin, similarly with JBL’s. It weighs a ton but the sound is worth it!
I've had this idea of using two separate 10" speaker cabinets using proprietary baffling and mounting to remove any need for stands. These same sort of issues to find a competent outfit to build from scratch arise - as they did for my guitar design.
What a great video have a wonderful weekend Keith ❤😊
Dans awesome. Fyd has serviced multiple amps for me and I’ve been nothing but pleased
Now I can hear you alright
In the late 60's, I built an all transistor Heathkit guitar amp, which looked cool, but was a really bad amp. When I moved to California it was stolen after leaving it in my car overnight. I was only unhappy about the broken car window.
Smallness is a matter of impact. A small hammer makes less impact but it can be critically important to the outcome none the less. Briefly instituted errors not immediately detected usually result due to an assumption of alertness sufficiency.
Sorry I missed the live stream 😔 but no worries 👍 keep up the good work technical issues happen to everyone 😊
When you said that you had no level it was fine.
My amp technician lives 60 miles away, in LA, that’s a long way, far enough that every time I go to PU….I drop off😅
It’s great in Montana.
⚓️ Thanks Keith 🌈 HEATHKIT!!! my drunk dad’s interminable project… GD-48 metal detector ⚓️ it sat on his bedroom dresser for half my HS duration… partly complete … then done for a trip to the Grand Canyon 😎
Great story Keith, I feel your pain having recently gone through a similar experience trying to set up a Floyd Rose bridge live on UA-cam, the 1st try having gone pretty terribly, yet a funny learning experience! As for the Fender amp build... well, that's the one amp I have yet to buy or build... a Reverb Deluxe. I've wanted one for a long, long, long time and was planning to go to a Mojo Tone Build Your Amp Weekend clinic on a trip to Sweetwater's Gearfest and Nashville one hopeful summer of 2020... but we all know what happened then! Some day I'll find the time to do it, but for now I've got nothing close to that amp in my studio, though I really shouldn't complain as I'm luckier than most! My small apartment bedroom space is outfitted with a mid 2000's Vox AC30 CC2, a Carvin Steve Vai Sig 120 watt head into a Mojo Tone 2x12 cabinet with Celestian Greenbacks (my friend Hobo Roady sent me... he's a great guy) alongside an EVH 5150 Iconic 80 watt head into an orange 2x12 cab with vintage 30s and one of the 1st of 300 hand wired Marshall JTM 45 Offset Replica's with its matching 4x12 cabinet with those glorious sounding, incredibly heavy, silver back Celestian G12s (100s I believe), and of course a couple smaller combos studio/gig amps... a mid 90s Roland JC90 2x10 and a Blackstar Studio 20 1x12 that has a Celestian HotRod, speaker in it. My very first amp was totally by accident, having the luck of finding a late 60's Silverface Twin Reverb in my grandparents' garage at age 18. Yup... a true story... and boy was that thing heavy, and loud ... but it was so clean, rang like a bell. Ironically, I first used it as my a keyboard amp back in 1985 with my first synth, a Juno 60! I later went to get a PA system for the synth but saw a Gibson SR-71 in white with black parts and just had buy it! I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS DOING but it sounded amazing clean... though this was 1987... and that was not the tone I was looking for, so the shops that sold me the guitar said you need a Marshall Guv'ner in front of that amp... and a few other pedals... and the rest is history. I later bought a PA, and mostly used that Fender with my shreddy guitar until I loaned to my brother and it was stolen. I wish I still had it... there's still a Tone Void missing in my soul that needs to be filled! Thanks for your stories, Keith... hearing them makes me believe they're are others who understand what I'm feeling! And sorry for this long comment... if you ever read it, you're a real trooper! Rock On! 😎🤘🎸🔈🎶🎵
Labor Day Deluxe🤣. I like it
Keith, your dad is profound. I'm gonna hold onto that "somewhere you haven't looked". :)
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As much as I admire John Cordy's playing I need to play like me.
12 years with Radio Shack. LOTR lore guy, my nerd creds are intack. Lol
My home practice tube amp is 15 watts with a 1 watt setting. I think it sounds better set for 15 and just lowered to create 80 dB (the sweet spot for all amps suitable for bedroom volume).
First eight minutes audio is garbage (super low volume and garbled) still a bit low even after the fix but a couple of clicks on your device will correct for.
Actual discussion begins about 9:38
As the video has now been edited my comment about the first eight minutes being garbled is no longer true so ignore that.
Time to move to Nashville.
Ha!
It is probably cheaper to buy a backup solid state amp than to pay for repair of a tube amp. I have yet to find any amp impressive enough that I want to keep two on hand.
My next amp is going to be a princeton reverb circuit running 6aq5 power tubes. Building amps is quite an addiction.
Top tip for running 6aq5's. Them lil' suckers run HOT!!!!. The best mounting option is above the chassis (think Marshall head), as running them suspended (Fender style) can lead to early failures (heatsoak on the pins leading to loss of vacuum). Also, be gentle on the B+ voltages. Leo ran his tube voltages mighty high, and the 6aq5 really doesn't like that. Having built using them before, I personally won't go over the published specs for a 6v6 when using 6aq5's.
Yes, they can be used as a straight swap for a 6v6, but at the voltages most old Fenders ran their 6v6's, a 6aq5 will die an early death, redplating itself out of existence very rapidly.
Anyway, hope that helps, and good luck on the build!
@@gchampi2 You know it!! only using the circuit but the chassis will be at the bottom of the cab with tubes mounted on top(Marshall like) as you suggest and the power transformer I have is a lower voltage and probably wouldn't work great with 6v6's. If I find the heat to be too much of a problem, I may put a small fan in it to pull heat away from the tubes. Thanks for the info.
My main amp is a '79 Deluxe Reverb, which I purchased very slightly used in the early '80s. It's always been all that I need. Great amps!
that's a 63 OT!
Is it?
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Please consider leaving the questions onscreen for the duration of your answer. Frustrating when they time out mid-read and distracts from listening to your response.
Yeah I need to adjust that
Garbled audio
Fixed