Who will fix our tube amps in 30 years?
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Welcome to The Tone Lounge Podcast. In this clip, Frank and I talk with Thomas Blug of BluGuitar about the future of amp technicians. If there are less and less repair technicians, and the new generation is less interested in antiquated technologies, who will fix our vintage tube/valve amps in the next decades?
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To begin with you will need to take your tube amp to an authorised workshop be that Fender, Vox, Marshall etc. It wont be some place local. Eventually after a couple of visits, they will tell you it wont be worth repairing. too costly or some component or other is not available. then you will accept solid state amps for good. Independent tube repairers will die out because they will not make money doing that kind of work.
Many people never go on stage, many players live in apartments or with parents and are restricted to playing in the bedroom. You dont need a tube amp for that ! In a sense Fender have accelerated the decline in tube amp demand with the Tonemaster. It's not too apparent now but it will be . The argument that you cannot repair solid state is not wholly valid. Some can, but if it dies altogether, you just buy another one, and so it goes. The most important thing is that makers of solid state do not lose the VOICINGS of the established brands ..🙏
@UncleDoug is another fantastic resource in this field! People like us who are interested in this stuff will be grateful for his content in the coming years!
Good Topic! I work on, repair and build hifi and guitar tube amps for almost 30 years but could never make a profession out of it. High Voltage and the related parts are a total different animal and besides technical understanding of the basic electronic principles you need experience which is hard to come by today. @Frank: I live nearby so if you have any technical questions may-be i can help out.
Here in Lisbon Portugal, almost no one. But then again thirty years from now, I'll probably be dead 😉
It is not just in the future, depending on where you are, it is now. I am right in the middle of Germany (Frankfurt) and since our last local tube amp expert, the great Thomas Reußenzehn passed away, just as it happened with our only great guitar tech (Peter Coura) as few years earlier, you can not get anything done here. I have to drive 60 miles to get a guitar pot changed - and since the few good technicians are completely booked, my last pot swap took 7 weeks.
I have a problem with a Fuchs ODS II amp since three years. I emailed 11 amp repair shops throughout Germany with a full problem description and schematics, and have not received one single reply - they don't want it, as they most likely can't handle it. If you email the same companies for an overhaul and a tube change, you get a reply within minutes, offering the most esoteric magical tube sets for hundreds of Euros.
I agree, it already is an issue depending on your location. In my area (Cologne), we have two technicians around. One is a bit grumpy, the other one tends to sell "magic". 🙄
the same jokers who didnt fix our old vcrs, crt tvs.