Inspection | '66 Tremolux Pt 1
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 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) 
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Maybe I should give this a clickbait title…
People love hyperbole…
I love irony, sarcasm, puns and wordplay, even double-entendre ---- but not clickbait or hyperbole....
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.
You wont believe what I found inside this one weird amp they don’t want you to know about
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@@audunrundberg9180 , yup, you nailed it. Millions of RUclipsr's "cry Wolf!" every day, so why should we believe them?
Fuckin A today's my birthday 🎉
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)!
This is a fair inspection. Very realistic and informative to both the buyer and seller. Nicely done Lyle.
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…..
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.
@PsionicAudio To the GZ34: "You were in terrible peril!"
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.
Thank you Lyle!!!!! We are all so grateful for your support and genius🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏👊👊👊🎸🎸🎸
“Unlikely to electrocute you immediately.” Made me laugh.
I'm always stunned at the power and clarity of Fender tremolo
Such a beautiful Fender sound. I love watching you care for these special amps.
I have this amp. Looking forward to more in this series!!!
Another great video
Great sounding old Fender. Miles ahead of some of the new 68 series reissues you've worked on.
Is there a 68 reissue Tremolux? Or you mean just 68 reissues in general?
@@kevinmurtagh4996 In general
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?
Sounds pretty sweet.
That trem is fantastic
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.
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.
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!
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!
Sounded very nice out here in RUclips land.
Sounds good to me.
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.
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.
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.
"Unbiased". I see what you did there :)
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! 😬😬😬
I didn’t miss it, just didn’t focus on it here.
Aloha Lyle!
Does the shielded cable add capacitance over normal twisted wire? Can that change the tone?
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never noticed that “Columbia Record Distribution Corp” thing on these before?
CBS ownership.
My next amp might be a Blonde Bandmaster or a Blackface Tremolux any suggestions on these choices. Thanks
Either can be great, one might be more correct for you. Play them first if you can.
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.
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.
AGREED on all points. Well said mate!
Collectors might care.
@@danielmargolis3210 Sure, and if you were a collector, you would know how to pull the chassis and read a date code.
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.
@@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!