Louis Rosano of Louis Electric Responds to Gooping Questions | FULL UNEDITED
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2021
- I recently got a Louis Electric KR12 amp whose guts had been painted red. Needless to say, I was a bit peeved, so I called the owner of the company and asked him why.
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Well at least he's a stand-up guy
I’ve purchased two amps from Louis. He’s a great guy. Best amps I’ve ever played.
damn brad i like how you bring a gun to a amp repair. now if the amp gives you issues you just put it down ;)
Reminds me of my house. I live alone, so child safety is not an issue, and you never know where you may find a gun.
I thought you kind of over reacted, but a bit of controversy is probably good for clicks. Louis seems like a good guy who made a real good sounding amp. Glad you guys made nice in the end.
Chinese don't need schematics, they copy from the board level. Some of their counterfeits even include the original logos in the copper layers.
They just buy an amp and reverse engineer.
Louis should've just dipped the whole dang unit into a tub of red paint.
Very cool video Brad.
Love the way you give folks a fair chance.
I really liked Louis' attitude.
Really good
All the best
👍✌😎
Maybe if I paint my amp guts red, my amp will sound as good as that one. I thought we were supposed to 'paint it black'...
ooooohhhh we see what you did there ;)
Louis seems really cool. And his amp sounded fantastic on your repair video,
Yeah dude, I like Louis.
liked this video alot.
Lous amps sound insane!!!
I have a person in my life who insists on texting, even when it's a very important conversation! I just cannot get through to this person that, there's just SO MUCH that doesn't come through via text message! You cannot determine emotions behind a text for one..... Anyway, I just refuse to talk to them via text. I'll let them send me five page texts and I don't even read them. CALL ME if you want to talk about something important.
Anyway, I had to share this when I heard you guys talking about texting.
So true! The "art of the conversation" seems to be nearly lost since the invention of the text. In the 90's I started to notice what I have called "talk-atters" showing up more and more. Those people who believe in the one-sided "conversation", where even if you do get a small window to actually speak, you can see their eyes sort of glaze over after you have said a few words, knowing that they are not listening to what you have to say and only thin ing about what they are going to say next. The text has allowed them to flourish ever since, so that they can "talk-at" you, not actually engage in a legitimate conversation.
books will be written on how ph's killed humanity......although no one will read them due to scrolling tiktok or counting " likes". The modern human is a dumbass at best
Based amp guys!
Yeah Brad...Danny was a monster player. Saw him at the Chestnut Cabaret in Philly for the Cruisin Deuces tour. Never saw a guitarist play so technically so effortlessly. It was like guitar was a seventh sense for him. I'd put Danny in the conversion with any guitarist period.
Sounded like a good dude.
I couldn't agree more on your thoughts on the late Danny Gatton. Perhaps the greatest of all time.
Is the Ruger LCP a last resort for repairs ? lol
Kel-Tek .380 P3AT
I knew Danny Gatton. I use to service his amps. What a loss smh.
core stack lamination? apparently alternating the lamination stack can reduce flux leakage and iron loss?
can someone elaborate on this process further? what do they mean when they say:
"Transformer core laminations are usually stacked alternately to each other to produce an overlapping joint with more lamination pairs being added to make up the correct core thickness"
do they mean that if the plate is made of 3-4 pieces sorta like a square figure 8, when you lay down the next layer you do it in a fashion so the seams or joints are in a different spot right?
trying to visualize this in my head, so looking at a transformer if its a good one you never see seam or joint in the same place on any given 2 layers? or? alternate the seams? fugg I dunno never heard of this before be nice to know what to look for in more quality transformers, reduced leakage and iron loss is a good thing right? any care to elaborate on why?
TY
not only was Gatton pure genius on guitar he was a car guy too!
I'd put danny right up there with Terry Kath, the Godzilla Twinns...
Louis still making amps? looks like he gets decent money for his work? I am in the market for a high gain 2-3 stage KT88 style amp, 50/60/100 watt or so, 40 prolly work with a cab extension.., somewhere in the arena of a Soldano or Sound City but FFS no freakin PCB boards or any of that crap..
really chuffs me Soldano sells his company then the folks who bought it went cheapomatic but upped the price, $4000 for a SLO 100 but get this, the tube sockets are integrated, like that Mesa, and the component board is PCB, caps and what not soldered to a PCB board as opposed to using wire! UNREAL
if I've learned anything from this channel its that GC throws a lot of good gear away and PCB board amps are shyt for diagnosis and when the warranty expires, therefore should be avoided at all costs.. if its not hand wired with eyelet boards and good ceramic sockets and wiring, quality caps and resistors along with quality transformers and tubes its not worth that kind of money to me, period.. not to me, typically when these components tire out is right around the time the warranty expires, I don't play that game..
I've watched you work on too much stuff to know for good valve AMPs PCB is junk, and it's easy to see why especially when it burns, or has very small contact area so the connection is fragile due to the solder not having anything to grab onto.. then working on em... yukk!
I researched your thoughts on this and came to the same conclusion, it's just not good in tube amps, and the money saved isn't worth duping a loyal customer base... don't care if soldano still designs amps for the Asians or not, I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot poll..
rather pay the $1400 or so build my own at that amp class, come home with a quality 57 custom copy I know is right.. hale they'll put one together for around $300 extra..
you ever thought about putting kits together for customers, put your own spin on em? "Guitologist Amps" hey, Mikey likes it!
Pretty much all transformers use laminations in the core and what they are referring is just how they construct it so that they can wrap the copper wire coils around the core. Transformers use laminations because it reduces eddy current losses which reduce the efficiency. If you have a transformer with a solid iron core, there will be a large circulating current inside the core due to the magnetic field which is called the eddy current and this reduces the efficiency. Making the core out of laminated sheets reduces the amount of eddy currents induced in the core since the sheets have higher resistance especially with the insulation between sheets. Pretty much every transformer in the past hundred years is made like that because they found out early on that it reduces the eddy current losses. Reducing losses in the iron is a good thing. The different core constructions are used for different types of transformers for different purposes.
As for PCBs in amps, it really doesn’t matter so long as it is a good quality PCB. In fact, PCBs will be better than hand wiring as far as reducing RF interference and noise from power lines as well as reducing signal loss and having shorter connections. The wires in point-to-point designs will much more easily pick up any radiated or conducted noise and interference and the soldered connections can fail more easily. The ground plane in the PCB helps to shield from noise and also it is overall much cleaner and more streamlined with better connections, if the PCB is well designed and good quality with good wide copper traces and pads. If it is a crappy PCB with a poor design then of course it’s not good. Another problem is if the copper traces are weak and too thin and can easily raise off the PCB or break due to heat.
But these issues only happen if they use a poor quality PCB or a bad design that puts thin traces near things that get hot. So long as the PCB is a good design and is well laid out it will actually be better than hand wiring. Also, with power tubes it is generally better not to have them directly mounted to PCBs. A lot of lower wattage amps use EL84s that are directly mounted to PCBs and that causes an issue, again because the PCB gets hot and it damages traces. But again, if the PCB is well designed and uses good wide copper traces and is well made then it should not be a problem.
So the problem with PCBs is just cheap low quality manufacturing or bad designs.
They use PCBs for satellites and things that go into space which are subjected to much harsher conditions than any guitar amp would ever see, so of course a guitar amp using PCBs can be reliable and function without any problems, so long as the PCBs are not cheap crap from China.
Absolutely agree with you about the PCB's and other shortcuts. PCB mounted pots and switches, not chassis mount? Who thought that was a good idea? For my money, eyelet boards, ceramics, and point to point wiring with quality components is worth the extra cost. The longevity regarding maintenance and and any needed repairs is worth a lot to me personally, especially when you factor in the heat produced by the tubes/valves.
Uh Oh, pew, pew, Demonetization coming Brad.
Is that a Kel-Tec on your bench?!? lol
Maybe in case an amp is suffering so much he has to put it out of his misery.
How close were you to shooting the amp?
Why you think it's out?! :D
guitologist u look a mountain man! looks good man. peace ma men
Am I wrong for thinking you believed every other word he was saying?...for me,he sounded like a New York used car salesman..how many times did he say “no..I’m not trying to hide anything”?
Just recently been handed a 183 Cobra for repair. Been in the electronic business for over 40 years - when I see goop on a circuit board it's not conformal coating. No reason to paint/goop certain components to weather protect if you're only doing just one area
I feel like I'm listening to a Jerky Boys phone call.
thumbs up
Like the Ruger lcp 380 sitting on the bench.
Gun from the last Mesa? 🤔
Who will be the first to dip their amp in Plasti-Dip or Flex Seal to really be hardcore..
There was some idiot crap about painting stereo gear interiors to improve the sound... In every case, it actually degrades the performance due to added dielectric absorption. If moisture is a problem, there are clear conformal coatings specifically engineered to isolate from moisture, and not destroy component identification. At least he seems like a stand-up guy about dealing with it.
You can tell by the color and how it lays on there it’s not normal “paint”. This is a 2 part epoxy conformal coating that is good for limiting/mitigating high voltage tracking in low (480v), medium (4kv) and even high voltage breakers, transformers and other switchgear. Spent close to a decade working on this equipment and with this coating.
I have no experience with any of that coating yet. Interesting. Thanks for the heads up on that.
@@Fixologist1 the stuff we used was called Limitrak, and it was about $250/gallon last time I had to buy it.
Is that a PF9?
P3AT
tone paint make sense to me!
Nice one Brad.
P3AT, eh?
2A ftw 🏁🏁🏁!!
So you’re the guy on Louisville Craigslist that always has the crazy vintage shit pictured on tasteful rugs!
painted them to keep moisture out LOL what a load
Especially painting the back surface of the pots which elsewhere are wide open to the atmosphere, yeah makes sense, lol.
Who else talks with their hands on the phone?
I’m of Italian decent. I’d be mute 🤭 if I didn’t use my hands while talking. 👋✋🏼👍🏻🤚🏻🤣
You could have just sent him a picture 🙄
Hmm yeah painted to make it look nicer. Not sure why he would paint over the values on the pots then ;)
Is that a .22 on the desk? Nice.
.380
@@TheGuitologist It's really compact, I like it
@@Andrath Fits in front jean pocket. .380 hollow rounds have enough stopping power for 95% of situations.
Shot placement is the key.
Ohvey..it was for the moistya
Sooo vuhklempt! I can hahdly tooalk it was moista thana oysta
Damn, Brad..I haven't seen you in about 6 months and you went full outlaw look with a firearm. What is it?
A New Yorker with some sense!!!
He's a Jersey guy :)
Hummm, I painted it to keep out moisture. I painted it because of all the mismatched components. I painted it so I wouldn’t be giving away my designs. How about I painted it because I had a brain fart. Cool guy but damn....lay it out straight.
He copied circuits, like I guessed.
But Benson is a far better player than Danny. Lol!
Brad thanks for exposing another jersey fast talker!!
Tell us about the "Magic" in the Transformers...please.
Fuggin looks like it was thrown together
I'm still wondering why he did it ..hey Brad the the paint is like covid a farce that covers up.ahh louis must just be concerned his onto something unique and other boutique dudes ripping his detail...i think the only boutique amp i could be happy with is one from Jason at headfirst amps
This was going great until Covid and farce was mentioned in the same breath.
Wake up
I can’t stand listening to his vernacular talk.
Those amps are way overpriced IMO
They aren't cheap, but outside the paint, the construction was top notch. Clean wiring, good trannies, metal resistors where you want to see them, clean soldering, nice cabinet... I mean, it is what it's advertised to be. The labor is the real cost in putting something together like this.
@@Fixologist1 Looks like average wiring job and the wires themselves look rather cheap, Really cool that you gave him the benefit of the doubt
@@Fixologist1 lol at not worth that price, I am seeing 6L6 Bassman type copies out there going fora whole lot more, and not even the same quality..
I checked out Reverb, $1200, $1600 is a good deal for one of these amps if the components, cab and speakers are quality, try to find a fender Deluxe for that price, not the goofy copy, a hand wired model, look at the price of a saldano from Asia, PCB all the way.. vintage amps of this build? lol..
for $1200 this is a good price for an amp if its made well with good components, make no mistake, you can get a chinese for less, go for it, but a new boutique made in USA with good parts? $3k and up
Louis Electric is actually extremely respected in the vintage-style amp industry, and his prices are often better than his competitors. I'm not sure what would lead you to think he's overpriced, unless you prefer mass-produced models (which is perfectly ok).
@@trixlee5102 Name some other builders that are higher priced?
fugg paint, could give a ratts what color it is, what's it sound like?
the pistol is a nice touch, if it sucks large hairy balls you can put it out of its misery... :-)
then again it may not be a POS and be a real ncei rocker, say 'Jim Kelly' level? wouldn't you crap if it was a Kelly in drag? DOH!
what if he still painted them was you gonna tell him to stop? get the information but dont try to fuck with the guy for how he builds. your approach to this guy is fucked.