As profession I believe he was a guitar teacher so he has the teaching part fully under control. Something a lot of experts in their respective fields sometimes cannot pass on effectively to students. He clearly is a pro at it. Nice.
12:00 - the purpose of flux isn't to facilitate heat transfer, but to disperse surface contamination and oxides on the joint surface. In the absence of flux, a joint will almost always end up dry, because pure solder will just sit in a blob rather than wetting onto the joint surfaces. If in doubt, add more flux.
Great jam at the end. Was multi tasking and it literally stopped me in my tracks and captured 100% of my attention. Please consider incorporating more of you two playing together.
Between TPS and Andertons, Chris of Rift Amps is going to have quite the waiting list. Congrats and well-deserved! A master of his craft and a brilliant teacher. Cheers 🍻
These are some of the best explanations of the most simple, but often misunderstood concepts. Spent the whole video thinking "duhh.. that makes so much sense."
Awesome! I'm all for more DIY stuff on the channel. Nothing beats building something, plugging it in and loving it. Like the octave fuzz I built yesterday :)
Noak Westerberg So good when it works and becomes your new favorite! Make the Queen of Bone. Really good design. Clone of the King of Tone. Such a good pedal! Now if I could get around to figuring out the painting/labeling.
Noak Westerberg Yeah I have it set up like that. Clean into the blues breaker - ish side. It’s not exactly a blues breaker. But close enough. Has dip switches so you can add more clipping (have both sides dirty or both sides clean or 1 of each - symmetrical/asymmetrical clipping also. Pretty versatile.
This is definitely a Top 5 TPS episode! This one, the studio recording video, the TPS home improvement vlog and the refret vlog all hold a special place in my heart.. Not to forget all the amazing guest appearances and eye opening concept videos! Good job, fellas!
Yes, I do the same. I like the look of your workshop - lots of vintage kit, Heathkit PSU, I haven't seen for years and is that a Heathkit amplifier on the shelf?
As I recall the two volumes from each channel on the 5e3 are interactive. You can mess with the two volumes and get a variety of tone shaping. Then again what I remember isn't always how it happened. Great show as always! Jimmy
This is absolutely fantastic. Chris is clearly a wonderful, wonderful teacher. As someone who's been working on valve amps for a while and is starting to design and build their own this year, this got me feeling pretty inspired. Excellent work, gentlemen.
Yeah baby. I learned to do this myself 2 years ago after purchasing a pro junior and not being completely happy with it. It now has a resonance, master, and 3 band eq, 6N2P in the phase inverter. This is a glorious thing to do. I have never felt so connected with my playing after working on my own amp and making changes while playing. Just pure glory. Huge love from Canada as always gents. xoxo
Just finished up. I would suggest seeing if Chris would let you guys bring your amps you built back in to tweak on the bench. I bet that experience would be amazing for you. Modifying the tone stack you can make an amp very close to sounding like what you exactly want.
I've paused at the 5:45 mark where Mick says "we will get to amp building in a minute, I promise" to say this: please keep talking! Keep asking these types of questions. This information is really interesting, useful and helpful. And I reckon it makes a lot of sense to get a foundational understanding about amps and valves before you go ahead and build one. There's bound to be people commenting that you should have got to the point quicker, but I like the introductory interrogation.
Mind blown! Guy's that was truly an interesting episode. Congratulations on the build, once again you do what you do best wich is inspire and inform. Thank you!!!
What a great video gents! Production quality is tops...and “Never Enough” and “Blistered” are perfect. I will never get enough of that Collings Jr. Mick. It just screams!
Nice! Thanks! The solo is the Strat. Rhythm parts are some of the Collings. And some of the solos on Dan's track. Really loving the 360 at the mo too, with the Gold Foils
Wonderful episode! I’ve built a fair few pedals but have always been scared of amps. Watching this episode has really awakened my interest in finding a similar course in NYC.
And by the way, 20 minutes in and this is the best show you have ever done. I’m just engrossed in this. You should have Keeley or Josh do a similar video with building a pedal!
You hit on the main reason I became a carpenter: creating something that you or someone else will treasure for years to come has a very special feeling that comes with it. Your creations sound killer, guys, well done! The jam at the end was awesome, would love to hear more of that in the future! Cheers!
The 5e3 is just... Amazing. That amp basically changed my perspective on pedal (I no longer use a pedalboard) and reverb (I don't use it either) just setting an amp to a "home base" at 8 or 7, then punching it, turning it to 10 is every sound I want, perfect session and live amps. Great show guys
I like that Rift Amps builds true '50s and '60s Fender-style amps and maintains high quality. My own Deluxe Reverb was built by an amp builder friend of mine, and it's my favourite recording amp. Amp design was pretty well perfected in 1965 :-) Thank you for the video. I know it was a lot of work to make it happen, but everyone learned a lot, and now you have two new great recording/practice amps.
I've been listening to the podcast of this all the way home in the car, trying to imagine the scene with soldering iron's blazing. Now I'm home I get to watch it for real. Being a service engineer, I love this stuff. Wonderful episode.
Great episode. Makes me want to build my own 5e3 just to try something you guys didn’t which is that when plugging into channel one with the volume down, dime the channel volume of channel two and you may notice a change in tone and fatness. Works the other way as well apparently without it even being jumpered at the inputs which I’d love to see you do as well with these amps. Apparently the non-jumpered volume trick works due to microphonics in the wiring.
Came here to make sure someone pointed this out. They went straight for the pedals, but there is so much you can get out of this amp with just different combinations of knows, before even jumping comes into play. There is a sweet 30 minute RUclips video about the fender tweed where he talks about it for most of the video and then plays.
wow, you actually did something I always wanted to do since I started playing guitar, great show, I think that´s a thing every guitarist should do at least once :D can´t wait ´til you use them on the show, jam near the end really showed me why these are loved so much, the distortion did actually remind me of the king of tone but with a lot more definition or upper to medium highs, probably wouldn´t like it so much in my bedroom but in a band context it really shines
That was super interesting! What a great teacher! I can now understand a bit better how Bias amp works and how I can mess around “digitally” with amp circuits! I always just did random adjustments now I actually understand what it all does! Thanks! I’d love to try the amp course sometime!
This is one of my favorite episodes y'all have done in a while. Really well produced, tons of interesting information well communicated by Chris, and new subject matter for you guys to tackle. Also, it was great to be reminded how great you guys' songs are. Great job guys, as always.
Fantastic episode and very much aided by Chris being an excellent and clear teacher. Wouldn't habe worked otherwise. Kudos to Simon as well, very nicely filmed - obviously a much bigger task than a normal show. And guys, more jams please! Lovely to see your chemistry, even if your battling slightly unfamiliar gear. :)
What an amazing show! My favorite yet! What a cool process and Chris was such an awesome instructor and wealth of knowledge! Makes me wonder if he’d ever consider selling kits of his 5E3? I’d be first in line as a customer, especially with his kit being able to run 6L6’s too!
5E3 kits are quite common these days if you just want to buy one & DIY - I believe Rift run 'Amp building weekends', where you build one under supervision - check the Rift website ?
I love, love, loved this video!! Loved the subject matter and nerdy details. Loved seeing the looks of satisfaction on your faces having completed the amps. Loved the demo and duo jam out at the end (duo jams should be more of a thing on this show, why aren't they more of a thing?!). Kudos to you both for undertaking this and kudos to Chris for taking the time to share his knowledge with all of us. Great vid guys!
I was once told “It must be exhausting to be you” and that came to mind when Dan said he can hear the difference with or without a bulb for the jewel light. Awesome episode. WARNING: viewers may get bitten but the tube amp building bug!
I visualize the journey that the electrons make and try to control every little influence, regardless of measurable difference. I can't really get comfortable with unaddressed issues and THAT totally fucks up my tone. Unlike Meatloaf, I totally understand why my life is so much harder than everyone else's.
Gentlemen, You have built and now own a great amp.You will notice when you have the time to really tweek you will see how interactive all the controls are to one another. A very touch sensitive amplifier. When I have the chance I crank it and control the cleanliness with my guitar volume and how hard I dig in. Great show once again. Thanks.
Wow, I always wanted to do this but the cost of parts meant it wasn't much cheaper, plus I'd probably electrocute myself in the process! Looking forward to watching this...
Modulus Amplification has 5e3 chassis kits for a reasonable price. You might find the cost of a decent pine cabinet surprising though. A 5e3 needs that to sound proper!
If Jonny Kinkead has the dulcet tones to send you to sleep, Chris' voice reminds me of the abject fear of not paying enough attention in physics class!
Dan’s like the kid who read ahead in the textbook so he can raise his hand at every question... :))) I’d love to ask, if you buy the same components and hand wire a good amp, what’s the difference to buying one of the same parts? Is it like Guitars where experience is sometimes worth the price tag?
My time is cheap so I came out a few bucks ahead on my tweed build compared to buying one. There are worse ways to spend time, I enjoyed the assembly. Soldering is one of the few useful skills I acquired in my misspent youth, so that helped but its not hard. Wire dress gets really important on high gain amps so you want your skills first to avoid noise issues. Tweeds are real simple, like cribbed from that RCA manual probably, good for a first unit. I chose a 5e5 for the fatter tone but the circuit is almost the same.
TPS in a nutshell: “Goldfoils? Yeah let’s not get into that now.” -0.1 second later- “Goldfoils are a kind of singlecoil pickup used in...” Love you guys 😂
Grew up in the 70's and early 80's as a kid/teen building all kinds of electronic kits. Went through 3 years of night school learning my certificate of advanced electronics, twice weekly after work, riding a pushbike in the rain.....anyway I have made heaps of amps, pedals, mixer boards etc etc over the years, both from scratch and as kits. The self satisfaction of making your "own' gear is enormous. All that learning and I am still just a hobbyist electronics guy.
Oh man, I really love listening to people who know what they are talking about and manage to make themselves clear in the most accessible way. That was awesome! I envy you guys - these are killer sounding amps! Have fun!
Brilliant! Loved all of this, everything was interesting and entertaining. The Les Paul and the Collings together at the end sounded fantastic. Great show guys :-)
By far one of my favorite episodes really dig the fact that something like that exists. Dan appeared like you had one to many coffees or maybe giddy with excitement. Thanks again for great information and education
Hi guys, congratulations for your new amps. This surely was an amazing day. They sound great and oviously do look great, too. You nailed another great episode of TPS. The technical information given in this video cleared so much things up for me and I'm sure, that one day I built my own amp. So once more: thank you for your work. Greetings Christian
When the sounds started coming out of Dan's amp, my eyes almost got teary. :D They both sound just great (and different, depending who's playing), congrats guys!
So glad you guys had the opportunity do to this. I used to spend so much time scouring youtube watching OLD-OLD men explain tube circuits and building them XD.
What a teacher! Bring him on for question answering!
It's one thing to have all that knowledge, and another thing to be able to impart it. He's a great instructor.
As profession I believe he was a guitar teacher so he has the teaching part fully under control. Something a lot of experts in their respective fields sometimes cannot pass on effectively to students. He clearly is a pro at it. Nice.
This was one of the best shows you have ever done! Totally fascinating !!
Are you ever going to use them on an episode?
I really do love these TPS school trip videos… especially with a great soundtrack!
Never apologize for taking so long to get to the point! If we're here we know and love how much you guys ramble. Great video guys.
12:00 - the purpose of flux isn't to facilitate heat transfer, but to disperse surface contamination and oxides on the joint surface. In the absence of flux, a joint will almost always end up dry, because pure solder will just sit in a blob rather than wetting onto the joint surfaces. If in doubt, add more flux.
Great jam at the end. Was multi tasking and it literally stopped me in my tracks and captured 100% of my attention. Please consider incorporating more of you two playing together.
mandatory
I loved hearing the “I Am Burned!!!” from your song during the montage of you both beginning to solder. So literal!
Love this so much... Hadn't listened to the TPS tracks you recorded for a while, forgot how good they are! You guys need to write more songs!
2 songs are.... wait for it... Never enough! :D
@@RichardSeal LOL!!!
Great stuff, yes. I was going to ask what the music was.
Between TPS and Andertons, Chris of Rift Amps is going to have quite the waiting list. Congrats and well-deserved! A master of his craft and a brilliant teacher. Cheers 🍻
These are some of the best explanations of the most simple, but often misunderstood concepts. Spent the whole video thinking "duhh.. that makes so much sense."
@@Murry_in_Arizona Yes! Uncle Doug is absolutely the go-to for deep dives into a lot of these concepts (RIP Rusty).
I spent the whole video thinking "Huh?"
No amp building for me!
Dan’s face at 14:05 is priceless and pretty much nails what I love about you guys! Infectious enthusiasm. Great episode guys, just fantastic!
We need lots more of you two jamming like you did towards the end!!!
Awesome! I'm all for more DIY stuff on the channel. Nothing beats building something, plugging it in and loving it. Like the octave fuzz I built yesterday :)
maybe a pedal build from kit next
Noak Westerberg So good when it works and becomes your new favorite! Make the Queen of Bone. Really good design. Clone of the King of Tone. Such a good pedal! Now if I could get around to figuring out the painting/labeling.
@@BeefNEggs057 I already built a blues breaker clone with a built in boost, but I guess two is better than one? ;)
Noak Westerberg Yeah I have it set up like that. Clean into the blues breaker - ish side. It’s not exactly a blues breaker. But close enough. Has dip switches so you can add more clipping (have both sides dirty or both sides clean or 1 of each - symmetrical/asymmetrical clipping also. Pretty versatile.
This is definitely a Top 5 TPS episode! This one, the studio recording video, the TPS home improvement vlog and the refret vlog all hold a special place in my heart.. Not to forget all the amazing guest appearances and eye opening concept videos! Good job, fellas!
Good to see Chris wielding a Weller Soldering Gun at 12:50. I got mine for my 16th birthday and I'm still using it 51 years later!
Yes! Love mine, I do the Mr Carlson trick and use copper wire for the element
Yes, I do the same. I like the look of your workshop - lots of vintage kit, Heathkit PSU, I haven't seen for years and is that a Heathkit amplifier on the shelf?
@@brianpateman2666 That's the 4U FM reciever
@@brianpateman2666 I eyed off the Heathkit too. I love my lab gear. My capacitor tester and my oscilloscope are my best friends.
As I recall the two volumes from each channel on the 5e3 are interactive. You can mess with the two volumes and get a variety of tone shaping. Then again what I remember isn't always how it happened. Great show as always! Jimmy
boojbah1 Yes, that’s the beauty of the circuit and you don’t even have to jumper them!
This is absolutely fantastic. Chris is clearly a wonderful, wonderful teacher. As someone who's been working on valve amps for a while and is starting to design and build their own this year, this got me feeling pretty inspired.
Excellent work, gentlemen.
Dan: *all happy* "Ha! I knew I wasn't crazy"
Chris: "However..."
Dan:
Yeah baby. I learned to do this myself 2 years ago after purchasing a pro junior and not being completely happy with it.
It now has a resonance, master, and 3 band eq, 6N2P in the phase inverter. This is a glorious thing to do. I have never felt so connected with my playing after working on my own amp and making changes while playing. Just pure glory.
Huge love from Canada as always gents.
xoxo
Super cool Justin!
@@ThatPedalShow I'm a half hour into the episode and I feel like you guys already love these amps :)
Just finished up. I would suggest seeing if Chris would let you guys bring your amps you built back in to tweak on the bench. I bet that experience would be amazing for you. Modifying the tone stack you can make an amp very close to sounding like what you exactly want.
Nothing like biscuits, gravy, and TPS to start a Friday!
I've paused at the 5:45 mark where Mick says "we will get to amp building in a minute, I promise" to say this: please keep talking! Keep asking these types of questions. This information is really interesting, useful and helpful. And I reckon it makes a lot of sense to get a foundational understanding about amps and valves before you go ahead and build one.
There's bound to be people commenting that you should have got to the point quicker, but I like the introductory interrogation.
Mind blown! Guy's that was truly an interesting episode. Congratulations on the build, once again you do what you do best wich is inspire and inform. Thank you!!!
What a great video gents! Production quality is tops...and “Never Enough” and “Blistered” are perfect. I will never get enough of that Collings Jr. Mick. It just screams!
Nice! Thanks! The solo is the Strat. Rhythm parts are some of the Collings. And some of the solos on Dan's track. Really loving the 360 at the mo too, with the Gold Foils
Yes, I was referring to the solo in Blistered. Simple playing but so great!
One of the best tutorials / background videos I've ever seen. Enlightening. Cheers from Germany.
Wonderful episode! I’ve built a fair few pedals but have always been scared of amps. Watching this episode has really awakened my interest in finding a similar course in NYC.
And by the way, 20 minutes in and this is the best show you have ever done. I’m just engrossed in this. You should have Keeley or Josh do a similar video with building a pedal!
Chris is a brilliant teacher! Great video!
Wow, it sounds great and Chris seems like such a nice and calm guy!
@1:06:55 Yes I did...
@1:07:00 You're welcome...
@1:07:51 Cheers lads... see ya next week.
I really hope Uncle Doug Is watching this and give his seal of approval. He Is the ultimate tube amp youtuber but this is really really good.
Uncle Doug is a huge inspiration together with Terry from Dlab.
Classic TPS episode: incredibly informative and never dull
holy man they actually did a duet. I haven't seen that in forever! This is definitely going into my favorites!
I always love hearing you all play together!
Kudos on having an RCA tube manual! It’s the Bible on learning these concepts and demystifying the myths of “toobs”
That one is so clean. Is it still in print?
hoboroadie I thought the same thing, that one is in great shape. I have several downloaded as PDF files.
Cool as it gets :-) Chris is a very clear and confident teacher!
Watching this as I it the finishing touches on my own 5E3 kit...some much-needed levity. Hope everything works!
You hit on the main reason I became a carpenter: creating something that you or someone else will treasure for years to come has a very special feeling that comes with it. Your creations sound killer, guys, well done! The jam at the end was awesome, would love to hear more of that in the future! Cheers!
Dan's little face is a picture. Total nerdvana!
The 5e3 is just... Amazing. That amp basically changed my perspective on pedal (I no longer use a pedalboard) and reverb (I don't use it either) just setting an amp to a "home base" at 8 or 7, then punching it, turning it to 10 is every sound I want, perfect session and live amps. Great show guys
I immediately started googling tube amp kits :))
I like that Rift Amps builds true '50s and '60s Fender-style amps and maintains high quality. My own Deluxe Reverb was built by an amp builder friend of mine, and it's my favourite recording amp. Amp design was pretty well perfected in 1965 :-) Thank you for the video. I know it was a lot of work to make it happen, but everyone learned a lot, and now you have two new great recording/practice amps.
Now you need to try building your own pedal! I've made several and it's REALLY fun. (especially when it works ;) )
Tony McCallie they have some fuzz face kits from mr tripps laing around!
They have their own pedal, it’s called the D&M Drive
I think once you built an amp, a pedal should be easy. It's a lot less deadly if you mess something up.
What a video! What a teacher! I've never had so many eureka moments all at the same time. Truly awesome stuff.
Best boost pedal for a 5e3 is a treble booster (especially the Range Master circuit). Gets rid of all the excess bass frequencies.
Totally. Sounds especially good with a broken in Alnico speaker.
I've been listening to the podcast of this all the way home in the car, trying to imagine the scene with soldering iron's blazing. Now I'm home I get to watch it for real. Being a service engineer, I love this stuff. Wonderful episode.
Great episode. Makes me want to build my own 5e3 just to try something you guys didn’t which is that when plugging into channel one with the volume down, dime the channel volume of channel two and you may notice a change in tone and fatness. Works the other way as well apparently without it even being jumpered at the inputs which I’d love to see you do as well with these amps. Apparently the non-jumpered volume trick works due to microphonics in the wiring.
Came here to make sure someone pointed this out. They went straight for the pedals, but there is so much you can get out of this amp with just different combinations of knows, before even jumping comes into play. There is a sweet 30 minute RUclips video about the fender tweed where he talks about it for most of the video and then plays.
Awesome video guy, as always!
It's so adorable how excited Dan is when Chris explains the soldering technique :D
wow, you actually did something I always wanted to do since I started playing guitar, great show, I think that´s a thing every guitarist should do at least once :D can´t wait ´til you use them on the show, jam near the end really showed me why these are loved so much, the distortion did actually remind me of the king of tone but with a lot more definition or upper to medium highs, probably wouldn´t like it so much in my bedroom but in a band context it really shines
You guys have done it again! One of the best shows ever! Please also more of the 2 guitar jams at the end...great!
That was super interesting! What a great teacher! I can now understand a bit better how Bias amp works and how I can mess around “digitally” with amp circuits! I always just did random adjustments now I actually understand what it all does! Thanks! I’d love to try the amp course sometime!
This is one of my favorite episodes y'all have done in a while. Really well produced, tons of interesting information well communicated by Chris, and new subject matter for you guys to tackle. Also, it was great to be reminded how great you guys' songs are. Great job guys, as always.
This is a genuine "boys will be boys" type thing. You just have to love it.
Fantastic episode and very much aided by Chris being an excellent and clear teacher. Wouldn't habe worked otherwise. Kudos to Simon as well, very nicely filmed - obviously a much bigger task than a normal show.
And guys, more jams please! Lovely to see your chemistry, even if your battling slightly unfamiliar gear. :)
This had to be up there as one of the episodes requiring the most editing. Thanks Simon!
This was so awesome. Great technical info and watching Dan completely unable to sit still... Informative AND entertaining - top notch!
Thanks for sharing what a great educational video.
What a great show- been waiting for a Tweed show for years- this is even better!
What an amazing show! My favorite yet! What a cool process and Chris was such an awesome instructor and wealth of knowledge! Makes me wonder if he’d ever consider selling kits of his 5E3? I’d be first in line as a customer, especially with his kit being able to run 6L6’s too!
5E3 kits are quite common these days if you just want to buy one & DIY - I believe Rift run 'Amp building weekends', where you build one under supervision - check the Rift website ?
This video is the first time I've listened to the TPS tunes. Very much impressed.
Amazing episode! :)
Best show on RUclips!! One of the best episodes also. Thanks guys!!
Dan's little jab at AC/DC made me literally laugh out loud. Very topical!
Did you see their video where they had to cut out ac/dc riffs?
Seth Howard I assumed that was what he was referencing. Hence the “topical” comment.
I love, love, loved this video!! Loved the subject matter and nerdy details. Loved seeing the looks of satisfaction on your faces having completed the amps. Loved the demo and duo jam out at the end (duo jams should be more of a thing on this show, why aren't they more of a thing?!). Kudos to you both for undertaking this and kudos to Chris for taking the time to share his knowledge with all of us. Great vid guys!
I was once told “It must be exhausting to be you” and that came to mind when Dan said he can hear the difference with or without a bulb for the jewel light.
Awesome episode. WARNING: viewers may get bitten but the tube amp building bug!
I visualize the journey that the electrons make and try to control every little influence, regardless of measurable difference. I can't really get comfortable with unaddressed issues and THAT totally fucks up my tone. Unlike Meatloaf, I totally understand why my life is so much harder than everyone else's.
I bloody love this. My favourite episode. Thank you.
this channel is like (old) Top Gear for guitar players
Gentlemen,
You have built and now own a great amp.You will notice when you have the time to really tweek you will see how interactive all the controls are to one another. A very touch sensitive amplifier. When I have the chance I crank it and control the cleanliness with my guitar volume and how hard I dig in. Great show once again. Thanks.
That was the most educational vid I’ve seen in a long while. Great job!! 👍
Fabulous episode, one of the best yet.
Wow, I always wanted to do this but the cost of parts meant it wasn't much cheaper, plus I'd probably electrocute myself in the process! Looking forward to watching this...
Modulus Amplification has 5e3 chassis kits for a reasonable price. You might find the cost of a decent pine cabinet surprising though. A 5e3 needs that to sound proper!
I’m 20 mins in and this is already one of my favourite vids. Such clear explanations. :-)
If Jonny Kinkead has the dulcet tones to send you to sleep, Chris' voice reminds me of the abject fear of not paying enough attention in physics class!
I’m a Physics teacher. We need to bring that fear back!
COOL TUNE @ 1:02:30 Mick's wry smile speaks volumes!
When we were young “clean joints” were important too, but we weren’t making amps.
That was fabulous. What a great instructor.
Dan’s like the kid who read ahead in the textbook so he can raise his hand at every question... :))) I’d love to ask, if you buy the same components and hand wire a good amp, what’s the difference to buying one of the same parts? Is it like Guitars where experience is sometimes worth the price tag?
My time is cheap so I came out a few bucks ahead on my tweed build compared to buying one. There are worse ways to spend time, I enjoyed the assembly. Soldering is one of the few useful skills I acquired in my misspent youth, so that helped but its not hard. Wire dress gets really important on high gain amps so you want your skills first to avoid noise issues. Tweeds are real simple, like cribbed from that RCA manual probably, good for a first unit. I chose a 5e5 for the fatter tone but the circuit is almost the same.
Dan's got some electronics chops already. Check out the Gig Rig G2 and his other awesome kit!
So great! I have some expertise in this area, and I am impressed with all the layman explanations. Very well done!
Ah, my OCD fix for the week!
"We like neatness here at Rift." I smell a t-shirt cross-over....
Well done gents!!! Y'all are legends and now have legendary amps.
TPS in a nutshell:
“Goldfoils? Yeah let’s not get into that now.”
-0.1 second later-
“Goldfoils are a kind of singlecoil pickup used in...”
Love you guys 😂
Grew up in the 70's and early 80's as a kid/teen building all kinds of electronic kits. Went through 3 years of night school learning my certificate of advanced electronics, twice weekly after work, riding a pushbike in the rain.....anyway I have made heaps of amps, pedals, mixer boards etc etc over the years, both from scratch and as kits. The self satisfaction of making your "own' gear is enormous. All that learning and I am still just a hobbyist electronics guy.
Did anyone else have to watch the Class A, B, A/B section multiple times? :D
Do a pedal build. When TPS plates were put on put a big smile on my face. Also TPS tracks as a backing......super
cant help but feel it would sound better with a 12" speaker of sorts
Oh man, I really love listening to people who know what they are talking about and manage to make themselves clear in the most accessible way. That was awesome! I envy you guys - these are killer sounding amps! Have fun!
Since Daylight Savings it’s coming in an hour later and totally ruining my commute to work.
I assume you're not in the UK then? Give it a few weeks and our clocks go forward so you should be fine once again!!
What a brilliant episode. Kudos to Rift Amps for putting together this one day build experience and for TPS for highlighting it.
That amp on 12 sounds almost like a fuzz - a Neil Young type of sound. Thanks for the great episode.
That's be because that's exactly what Neil young uses. Two tweed deluxe cranked
Brilliant! Loved all of this, everything was interesting and entertaining. The Les Paul and the Collings together at the end sounded fantastic. Great show guys :-)
That Eastman in the background tho... petition to get an SB59 on that pedal show!
Kept thinking that too!
By far one of my favorite episodes really dig the fact that something like that exists. Dan appeared like you had one to many coffees or maybe giddy with excitement. Thanks again for great information and education
p.s. who else was thinking to themselves "jumper those channels!"?
I was sort of surprised about that. Every one I know jumps their Deluxe. Fender should supply a cable as standard equipment.
Have been wanting to do this, and the expert experienced guidance, explanations, and instructions are invaluable! Great watching the whole process.
Hi guys,
congratulations for your new amps. This surely was an amazing day. They sound great and oviously do look great, too. You nailed another great episode of TPS. The technical information given in this video cleared so much things up for me and I'm sure, that one day I built my own amp. So once more: thank you for your work.
Greetings
Christian
10 minutes in and I have to comment - as Allan below says, What a teacher! Fantastic.
When the sounds started coming out of Dan's amp, my eyes almost got teary. :D
They both sound just great (and different, depending who's playing), congrats guys!
I'm just watching the open and am really excited to see the rest of the show!
So glad you guys had the opportunity do to this. I used to spend so much time scouring youtube watching OLD-OLD men explain tube circuits and building them XD.
This episode is right there in top three of TPS. Thank you so very much!