Yes Please | 1960 Fender Concert Pt 1
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2024
- This old almost untouched amp is far from its glory days.
But not TOO far.
Let's begin the process of bringing it back.
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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 X on MacBook Pro 16 running Sonoma 14
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 18
Paul Leeming LUTs
Adobe Illustrator 28
Adobe Photoshop 25
Ecamm Live (streaming software)
What's nice is the attention to detail - the doghouse caps labels face up and they have a little expansion strain relief.
What an absolutely wild thing for them to be making in 1960… awesome
I have a Rivera-era Concert “II.” Now, thanks to you, I’m GASing for a ‘60s era original. 😉
Amazing to see a nearly original Concert being brought back to life. Thanks for sharing.
WoW! That panel is beautiful. I just had my '64 Super Reverb worked on and requested Blue SoZos. Amp guy had to also use SoZo Yellows, and I was happy to pay $100 for parts in order to get rid of all the junk it had collected over the years. SOUNDS WONDERFUL. Also requested SoZo silver micas in the treble positions and the top end just sounds sweet! Tung-Sol 5881's, too!
These Concerts are fabulous amps! Second and third amps I ever played through were two of these, nearly brand new.
It's aways good to get an Emily Litella impression along with the tech info, well done!
Amazing how many have very little maintenance in 60 plus years, a testament to build quality, amazing 😊
That is a thing of beauty
This is a good one! I’m looking forward to following the progress. Thanks for posting!
I got to play one of these a few years ago- it was my first experience with harmonic trem. What a beauty!
Perfect timing for someone getting a Concert (me lol)
Whew! I'm glad I just turned 13.
Of course there will always be the vintage-original-nazis who complain that replacing the caps will destroy the “magic sound”, which they claim can never be recovered (unless you put the old parts back in). What they fail to understand is that a 100% original condition vintage amp typically sounds nothing like how it did in the showroom when it was brand new. In a sense, those old caps and resistors are no longer original in that they are often out of tolerance or hardly functioning at all. But those persons would prefer to gig with a severely handicapped and unreliable amp, based on how it looks on the inside, despite the audience only ever seeing the outside of the amp.
My rule of thumb is to ask myself "What would Leo have done?"
Amazing piece of history.
Yeah! Daddy's gonna take us on a Concert trip! Whoehiii.
Sorry. Couldn't resist reacting like a 12 year old. Feel excited.
Would agree on the vishay over the relabeled yellow caps. Has anyone tested the ESR on the yellows at 1k,10k, 100k or 100hz ? 70 dollars extra for "perdie" cap that no one sees is not a good way to spend money IMHO.
Keep up the good work, Lyle 😊
Looks at Mouser order for my DIY JCM800 clone... Vishay MKT and MKP., TE Connectivity, Vishay, and Yageo metal & wound resistors..
Cool stuff
Spectacular!
I use industry surplus Panasonic polypropylene caps a lot when recapping tube stuff since they are very good capacitors and I can often get them cheaply in lots of 100. They do tend to be short-leaded, though.
I use a Jam Pedals Harmonic Trem that is "always on" with dobro. It is a magic effect, would love to have a brown face with it built-in.
Yew little bewdy!
I have one that is earlier than this. Mine would be a center volume. Would you please discuss how the vibrato works on this amp. Thank you.
Mine had a 15in speaker in it
I prefer the cosmetics of the Brown amps to Blackface. And the tremolo. And the presence of a presence control. But I like reverb so ...
Wow, where do you get these absolutely mint amps from ? Surely has to be the same owner as the other 60’s Fender amps you’ve been working on recently ?
An inheritance perhaps?
Not Lyle’s of course, but the same person that brought that brown Princeton
Same client with the Reverb unit, the Princeton, and the Bassman with two more to come.
Lyle gets more vintage amps in because of the trust he's earned over the years for his knowledge, know how, work ethic, and skill-set. Plus, his blue-collar explanations, video/sound quality, and vintage radio voice make it interesting for players as well as techs.
@@PsionicAudio is it Joe?
@@PsionicAudio can’t wait to see these next two Lyle 😉😉
Can you discuss the bias when you do part 2 and whether these amps can safely be run off wall voltage given how high the voltages are in the circuit?
All to come.
@@PsionicAudio thank you. Additionally, can you discuss any shortcomings that may happen if you revise the reservoir capacitor layout from the two 20uf 600v in parallel to the revised 70uf 350v series layout used in every subsequent circuit? Especially given that the caps in there are most likely 500 and the voltages present are nearing 475 or higher using current wall voltages?
Your work is great and thanks for your time Lyle. Excited for these browns. They are special.
I repaired and refurbished one of of these brown Concert amps some years ago; best tremolo ("harmonic vibrato") I've ever heard from a Fender, bar none (I did have to replace the oscillator capacitors in order to get it to work). Those yellow Astron caps are also found in Danelectro/Silvertone amps. Just replace them, dont bother to deliberate the issue.
I’m not deliberating, I’m explaining. ;)
@@PsionicAudio , I know you are; I posted that for the benefit of others...... although sometimes there isn't much you can do to convince the "don't ruin the mojo!" crowd, who believe in magic instead of science.
Who's debilitated?
@@BradsGuitarGarage , perhaps you are, depending on your alcohol consumption! (Hope you're having a good time in Japan; and may your plane not have parts falling off it during the journey home!).
@@goodun2974 As far as I know that mainly seems to happen to American aircraft! 🤣 Fingers crossed, though!
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There are so few demos of how these amps sound. Here is my 62 bandmaster which is a very similar circuit to the concert. I hope someone finds this as useful as the content Lyle is putting out.
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Vintage amps are definitely for people other than me. I don’t want the responsibility or hassle. This thing made it 64 years, it needs a caretaker.