My Electronics Mentor, Mike Delvalle | An Interview | Fazio Electric

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024

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  • @ralphhyland8661
    @ralphhyland8661 2 года назад +6

    What a pair. Two honest talented people with drive who just happen to me into keeping old gear alive. Just great.

  • @jerrystephenson1172
    @jerrystephenson1172 2 года назад +38

    This was so great & heart warming to see the love between the two of you. Mike is an old school guy & he reminds me of my dad, who could fix anything but broken heart.

  • @bernardcromarty485
    @bernardcromarty485 2 года назад +19

    I'm a keyboard player, too (amongst other things!). What a lovely 'interview' - you must be so pleased and proud to have this for your archive!

  • @bernardcromarty485
    @bernardcromarty485 2 года назад +10

    Yup. Electric fans fascinated me, too! I used to regularly service a big green Collaro fan heater for a pensioner. It had red and green painted 15w pygmy lamps inside that occasionally needed changing - red for blowing heat, green for blowing cold. When she died it was passed on to me, and I still have it upstairs somewhere almost 60 years later!

  • @Vincenzo_F
    @Vincenzo_F 2 года назад +28

    I recently discovered your channel and I immediately signed up, I have already seen all your videos. I really like what you do and how you do it. You are fantastic!
    Greetings from Italy 🟢⚪🔴

    • @marcotaticchi5343
      @marcotaticchi5343 2 года назад +1

      Vincenzo... ti ritrovo ovunque (ci sia musica). Un saluto!

    • @Vincenzo_F
      @Vincenzo_F 2 года назад +2

      @@marcotaticchi5343 Ciao Marco, visto che c'è, lo spremo per bene YT 🖐🏻👍🏻

    • @stoneylonesome4062
      @stoneylonesome4062 2 года назад

      Do they still have Lancia in Italy? Hello from neighborhood Peanut-Baby country Albania.

  • @thedanchannel5528
    @thedanchannel5528 2 года назад +25

    Awesome interview and great questions. People like him are few and far between in present times. Old mechanical stuff is what keeps my soul alive, and watching this made me happy.

  • @markkasick
    @markkasick 2 года назад

    What a coincidence. I was watching your Champ video before I brought mine to Deltronics to be recapped. This man answered answered all my questions. they did a great job. It sounds fantastic.

  • @ericwinter8981
    @ericwinter8981 2 года назад +13

    Adorable seeing you guys interact. You can tell there’s a deep admiration and respect. Great story on his background.

  • @peterferguson2344
    @peterferguson2344 2 года назад

    People like Mike are priceless irreplaceable sources of info... you'd be very lucky to find anyone today willing to give you their time

  • @maryjaneevadiamond6359
    @maryjaneevadiamond6359 2 года назад +1

    ♥♥My mentor owned a repair shop, and hired me, while I simultaneously went to college for tech school, and worked in radio stations, and they even offered to pay for my college. I'm so old, it was VCR's, CRT televisions, yes I know how to do color alignments, and replace driver boards and components. At that time in 96, I would also become the identifier of a mostly unrealized virus that attacks audio tape gear. To this day, we even have some professional recordings available digitally, that were originally mastered on audio tape that are damaged from this virus.
    Like Mike, working on trying to fix things at a young age, (especially when your poor) is a really good way to learn, and in rare cases you can realize things that not even the creator or designer of those things misses, during it's conception.

  • @markatkinson9963
    @markatkinson9963 Год назад

    Years from now you will REALLY appreciate this interview. Awesome questions and a really cool personality. Thanks for sharing

  • @gregorya326
    @gregorya326 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for the video, love these old radios and electronics and the people that keep them alive!

  • @Jethlin2020
    @Jethlin2020 Год назад

    I just found your channel today as I am just getting into vintage amp repair. I started with good Ole Uncle Doug but find your content to be very relaxing...I think I could watch it even if I wasn't interested in electronics...lol. I love how you still have a great relationship with your mentor. What a great interview.

  • @Zargon314
    @Zargon314 2 года назад +2

    This dude is a quintessential Chicagoan. All it's missing is a can of Old Style

  • @TheDrunkenScoundrel
    @TheDrunkenScoundrel 2 года назад

    That was one of the most enjoyable things I have seen in a long time. I love people like that. No wonder you are so enjoyable to watch.

  • @violinmiata
    @violinmiata 2 года назад +5

    Great storytelling! This made 20 minutes seem like a breath of air

  • @BatMan-to8im
    @BatMan-to8im 2 года назад +9

    I am somewhat jealous. When I was a teenager, I made a guitar pre amp from parts I bought from an old tube amp repair store in Sydney. I didn't think until a decade later to ask the tech to do training with him. By this stage he was semi retired and had moved out of Sydney about 3 hours drive from where I live. He put me onto a speaker repair guy in Sydney but it wasn't the same thing and he didn't have much work.
    Now 20 years after that a gorgeous big old 60s phonograph turned up across the road ready for the dump truck. I have repaired it. And in doing that I have found these new mentors via you tube. It's not the same thing but I am starting my own business now.
    Thank you for your videos.

    • @caramelldansen.
      @caramelldansen. 2 года назад +1

      best of luck to you with your business :)

  • @genestatler2514
    @genestatler2514 2 года назад +8

    I just found your channel a few weeks ago and really enjoy it. I love your cool, low key style. The chat with Mike was great. I very much enjoyed his story. Please keep those amp repair videos coming.

  • @parachuteman4
    @parachuteman4 2 года назад +2

    Loved that. Thank you. He is such a cool guy.

  • @audiotechlabs4650
    @audiotechlabs4650 2 года назад +4

    It IS a great interview! I teched in St. Louis in 1973 at St. Louis Stereo! Those were the days! Wish you would have told how Mike taught you. You obviously worked with him, but how and when that happened. You are such a beautiful woman and to carry on the tube amp trade is fantastic! Love them tubes! Can’t wait for another video from you! Love from NW Colorado. Thanxz

  • @danweston6109
    @danweston6109 8 месяцев назад

    I appreciate that his setup in the old pictures is nearly identical to his setup now.

  • @bergstep
    @bergstep 2 года назад +7

    Awesome! Thank you for the interview. Mike resurrected and repaired a blown power supply on my red Farfisa Combo Compact organ and he definitely knows his way around a MiniMoog. Repairs were done back when he still had the Chicago shop location but I see that he is still an excellent, entertaining, and no nonsense tech!

  • @HDYaqui
    @HDYaqui 2 года назад +1

    Great Video!!! Interviews with these Experienced Techs are the Best! Thanks for sharing this!!! 🎶🥰🎶

  • @Blowncapacitor84
    @Blowncapacitor84 2 года назад +1

    Man I somehow knew you were from my neck of the woods! Great Channel!!! My daughters love watching you with me so now they actually have an interest in electronics now! Thank you and keep up the good work!!!

  • @R3TR0R4V3
    @R3TR0R4V3 2 года назад +2

    Great interview and video! Gotta show your mentors some love. 👊 He seems like a cool dude.

  • @TheNohcim
    @TheNohcim 2 года назад +2

    Great insight into your mentor, Was curious to learn more about him ever since listening to your truth about vintage amps episode. You can feel the love!

  • @thenameless3271
    @thenameless3271 2 года назад +1

    I love hearing stories like this, thanks so much

  • @vkuolema79
    @vkuolema79 2 года назад +2

    Love to hear it! old technicians and their wisdom and passion.! I got the same oscilloscope! high five on that

  • @FluffyKittenofMordor
    @FluffyKittenofMordor 2 года назад +9

    His passion is bursting outta the seams! Great mentor, Fazio

  • @deplinenoise
    @deplinenoise 2 года назад +2

    Felt good watching! Great idea to feature some shop talk and chatter on the channel.

  • @janinapalmer8368
    @janinapalmer8368 2 года назад +1

    That was lovely ... thanks Colleen... you're the sweetest amp/speaker fixer in the entire world ..! Here's one for you ... have you ever played a speaker ( on a plain open baffle ) directly into a fan ? It's like a cross between a Leslie and vibrato .. it's so nice to see you back honey ... I'm glad you're staying safe ... 😃

  • @JackT_Music_on_Vinyl
    @JackT_Music_on_Vinyl 2 года назад

    Love this. So great to hear the exoerience in old school audio gear vs today's microprocessor based gear.

  • @KeritechElectronics
    @KeritechElectronics 2 года назад +6

    Oh my, Mike was such a fanboy right from the start. Good it's not only fans :D
    Nice to see you back! Being another gal in tube electronics, I always loved your videos.
    I had a few mentors back in late 2000s, learned quite a few amp-related things from them. Other than that, I learned the stuff myself, sometimes the hard way, albeit I didn't get zapped too often. Ha, I've got a few mentors now as well, not just tube related. Generally anyone I consider vastly more experienced or knowledgeable, someone I can learn from, get inspired by and look up to.
    I was also well known as someone who could fix anything. Still am :)
    I've been doing tube stuff for half of my life (half-life?), started around 2004, serviced an occassional amp, radio, test equipment etc., built a few amps too, then kinda moved out of the field. Got back in 2020s after I've been missing these pesky little indirectly heated buggers, and I'm planning to go more public with it (i.e. doing videos), and going commercial if I can find customers. Truth be told, I met two amp builders/repairmen around and none of them has a tube tester, and I do, so... Oh my, things are getting serious here :)

    • @southboundsuarez9832
      @southboundsuarez9832 2 года назад +1

      Electronic repair is becoming a lost art. It really seems as if it's more a labor of love these days. I am not much of a business person, but my guess is not many get rich doing this for a living, but I encourage anyone that enjoys working with their hands and enjoys technical things to learn electronics. We need to pass the torch and carry on with the arts. It may seem as though it had traditionally been a male dominated avocation, but I believe that more women have been involved than what people think ... Regardless I encourage all young persons to give all forms of electronics a try...

    • @KeritechElectronics
      @KeritechElectronics 2 года назад +1

      @@southboundsuarez9832 it's true, the art of repairing old electronics (radios, audio equipment, vintage computers etc.) is becoming lost because most modern servicepeople get into repairing LCD TVs, phones, motherboards, graphics cards etc. stuff that's built in the surface mount technology, so they have the skills and mindset required for that. Servicing older equipment is drastically different and I'd say it requires less finesse, is more fault-tolerant and has its charm. There's something more of a custodian or archaeologist than just a serviceperson that's at play here.

  • @samuelhatman8995
    @samuelhatman8995 2 года назад +6

    Icing on the cake! Mike makes it all work from the past to the future! Long live all of you from one really old tech with many mentors, also a former Pacific Stereo and Business Degree grad. You can't write this stuff. Oh... still fixing anything that makes it to my bench. Wow Colleen, thanks and great to get to see Mike!

  • @jpanega1
    @jpanega1 2 года назад

    I wish Mike was my dad. You are very lucky to have him as a mentor!

  • @w9ahmed
    @w9ahmed 2 года назад +6

    That was a great video, and I think the audio quality wasn't bad at all.
    Loved Mike's career story.

  • @hearpalhere
    @hearpalhere 2 года назад

    This was really enjoyable to hear, that story about the shock of his life was crazy! I can see that you had a great teacher, thanks for sharing this with us.

  • @johnl455
    @johnl455 2 года назад

    Great interview and nice shirt Coleen. One correction, It's Don Leslie not Paul Leslie. Retired front of house touring engineer here who had to fix things so the show could go on.

  • @mintmindofficial
    @mintmindofficial 2 года назад

    great video colleen! no need to apologize about the audio. it's the content, not the quality, that counts. it's sometimes more worth it to have to listen in and try and decipher what's being said, especially if the reward is simply a nice interview from a person who knows how to ask the right questions and someone who has some nice stories (and warnings) to tell. i may be wrong but it looks like beer helped make a more relaxing conversation as well ;)

  • @scottjarvis5485
    @scottjarvis5485 2 года назад +3

    I could listen to mike talk for days and not get bored proper old school fountain of knowledge that we can only aspire to get close to, Thanks for sharing him with us and thanks for sharing your own journey with us, I am newly subscribed to your channel but hooked already

  • @bulkvanderhuge9006
    @bulkvanderhuge9006 2 года назад

    I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video, especially the flaming radio story.

  • @brettg9013
    @brettg9013 2 года назад +3

    Thanks for the video. As far as the audio quality, I always recommend turning off the "auto level" feature, which causes the varying loudness in levels heard here. Cheers!

  • @timothy5974
    @timothy5974 2 года назад +2

    Nice to know of your services here locally near O’Hare. Great interview and Like the shirt. Thanx.

  • @SeanBZA
    @SeanBZA 2 года назад +2

    Leslie speakers I remember from going to church, and being in the top gallery where the 6 to 12 year olds were, which also had there the church organist and a pair of Leslie speakers to provide the organ to the church. Open fabric cabinets so you could see the 2 speakers in them, and the motor and drive as well, and the changes in speed as the organist desired it.

  • @lostreb
    @lostreb 2 года назад +2

    I would love do have watched the conversation...How did you fix the old '32 LowBoy Short-Wave? First, I set it on fire. WTH!?!?!? I think you are the still developing, next generation of the Mike Devalle's of the world. Thank God you learned from him. I can see how you are already so proficient at this craft. Thank you Mike for the Interview, and thank you Colleen for thinking of this. Great Interview!! Please keep up the good work!!! Happy New Year!!!! (Great video to kick off a New Year!!!)

  • @blugoose86
    @blugoose86 Год назад

    You rock that shirt Coll. I grew up on that station. Great, very interesting interview.

  • @mikegraves3673
    @mikegraves3673 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for sharing this with us. I am a keyboard guy also. Been playing with bands since 1965. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos. Some of the amps you have shown I have. Guitar amps have been necessary for my Rhodes and Clavinet. I agree 100% with Mike’s opinion on the Leslie!

  • @ppstonesanchez1590
    @ppstonesanchez1590 2 года назад

    My friend, why did you stop uploading your videos? I was just beginning to know your channel and you. I hope you are well, and you can continue sharing your knowledge with us and do not deprive us of your presence.

  • @monsterkxf
    @monsterkxf 2 года назад +2

    Your channel is such a breath of fresh air!! No bs. I got tired of that brad guy on another channel.
    More vids please!
    Lets go!! 🤘🤘

    • @400_billion_suns
      @400_billion_suns 2 года назад +3

      Lol, the lack of crazed political ranting here is indeed refreshing. Plus, I doubt Colleen would mix up solder paste with paste flux and then blame it on everyone else 😆

  • @brunodiaz1916
    @brunodiaz1916 2 года назад +1

    Excelentes tatuajes y ojos hermosos... Saludos desde #Tijuana #Baja #California #México...💜💜💜

  • @SilentNote
    @SilentNote 2 года назад

    HAPPY 2022 🎉✌🏽🙌🏽💪🏽🔝
    Love this video... now Loki ads of things you've been telling about YOUR professional "path" makes sense... by the way YOUR "path" is commented by YOURSELF in PREVIOUS VIDEOS OF THIS CHANNEL... and... I recommend EVERYONE watching ALL videos of THIS CHANNEL...
    Thanks 🙏🏽 for posting this interview with him...
    Cheers Mate 🙏🏽

  • @steveurquhart5895
    @steveurquhart5895 2 года назад

    I really enjoyed the interview, Keep up the wonderful work.

  • @FrenchAudio2000
    @FrenchAudio2000 2 года назад +2

    This was entirely adorable and I loved it so much.
    Very thankful to have a mentor like that in my life.

  • @fusion-music
    @fusion-music Год назад +1

    This took me back to 1972/3 when I started helping out in a busy electrical store with 5 engineers. I was so used to working on a safe bench with isolated power that I didn't have my brain in gear when quickly adjusting a TV that was on display for sale. Taking the back off the TV and holding the chassis, plugging in the aerial, I got a pretty nasty shock. It's very good seeing you both interact so well.

  • @monosurge
    @monosurge Год назад

    These are my people... Wish we could all hang out some time. We need to start a tech zoom and just exchange stories, experiences, and ideas.

  • @matthewdean5807
    @matthewdean5807 2 года назад +3

    This was so awesome! thank you for sharing this interview. Mike is an awesome and brilliant mentor. I can see why you are so good at what you do.

  • @Dziricani
    @Dziricani Год назад

    A quick search reveals that $35,000 in 1979 is the equivalent of $143,524.59 in 2022. After watching a few of your videos, you deserve to be making that much. Also, your name would sound beautiful as an amp brand. Based on your knowledge and dedication, that's just a matter of time... like in 2023. Happy new year! :)

  • @guitarmike6757
    @guitarmike6757 2 года назад

    Had Mike fix many of my amps awesome tech and great man👍👍👍👍

  • @davidtexmex1616
    @davidtexmex1616 2 года назад +4

    Quality, pride based repair business - can’t beat it

  • @jlore6344
    @jlore6344 2 года назад +3

    Mike seems like a fun person and has lived a pretty interesting life. I think all of us that watch your channel tinker and fix stuff and it is great to see the old masters. Was a great interview, thanks for doing it and sharing.

  • @HazeAnderson
    @HazeAnderson 2 года назад

    Thanks for interview! I got shocked once but that was long before I got into the hobby! 😂👉⚡

  • @DUDE72341
    @DUDE72341 2 года назад

    A Female in a male dominate world...the tragic, dying art of the craftsman..
    Love this interview, great partnership...Godspeed 👍

  • @yves78
    @yves78 2 года назад +2

    Wow I had seen some deltronics videos, cool stuff.

  • @jlucasound
    @jlucasound 2 года назад +1

    I was wondering about the audio and then I checked your D. Box. As long as you know about it! You'll have to go see him again and have your mic with you. This is so awesome. He taught you well. Thanks, Colleen and Mike and Dad!

  • @nolimit7
    @nolimit7 Год назад

    Interesting to hear peoples engineering journey.

  • @CedarGroveStudios
    @CedarGroveStudios 2 года назад +2

    Very reassuring to see the respect for your mentor. We all started at the beginning and arrived here on the shoulders of talented folks who were willing to share and teach.

  • @edwardhannigan6324
    @edwardhannigan6324 2 года назад

    Great video, what a nice man. Lucky girl to know and be trained by a great talented guy like that...Ed..uk..😀

  • @Wakeupproductions
    @Wakeupproductions 2 года назад +2

    Fazio... Delvalle... Italy dominates! Very interesting video, the proof that experience is fundamental at these levels.

  • @stingray4780
    @stingray4780 2 года назад +1

    Great video!
    Its great to see and hear from your mentor Colleen!
    Nice Man and great stories!
    Bob

  • @poormanselectronicsbench2021
    @poormanselectronicsbench2021 2 года назад +1

    Nice, casual interview, adult beverages, and "XR-Tee" shirt" 👍 ( I grew up on them too) I bought a few of my early HiFi items at Pacific Stereo in Oak Park as well. It's a shame that PS folded like a house of cards, but it was a sign of the times. There is a beauty to the simplicity of discrete electronic components that chip and modular parts can never replace.

  • @JackT_Music_on_Vinyl
    @JackT_Music_on_Vinyl 2 года назад

    Wow. LESLIE SPEAKER reference at about 17:30 is a great description of how they sound. Had one in a band I did sound for and fell in love with the sound in the 70s. Lovely.

  • @fredberthiaume6883
    @fredberthiaume6883 2 года назад +1

    That was great very interesting.

  • @analogemma
    @analogemma 8 месяцев назад

    He just fixed my 1968 Weltmeister Claviset! Absolutely nothing on it online so I was super impressed when he said it was fixed!

  • @scotthowe1972
    @scotthowe1972 2 года назад +1

    You're the next generation of these knowledgeable experts. Keep the legacy alive. Love the channel. Been playing guitar for about as long as you've been alive, am now getting into the logistics of tube amps. Been studying for about 2 years. Want to design my own amp. Thanks for the inspiration.

  • @RickMichaelis63
    @RickMichaelis63 2 года назад +1

    Happy New Year!!🎊🎈

  • @nolarocks
    @nolarocks 2 года назад +1

    Fantastic.

  • @SDPickups
    @SDPickups 2 года назад

    I guess you're no longer doing videos. Was trying to find out what camera you were using while working on amps. Sent an email and no reply and asked on a video and no response. Would really like to know, my GoPro 9 doesn't do the job. HELP?

  • @Mr_CMH
    @Mr_CMH 2 года назад

    Enjoyed that, thanks for sharing!

  • @BillMcGirr
    @BillMcGirr 2 года назад +1

    Great interview.
    Good stuff.👍

  • @vrcimino1250
    @vrcimino1250 2 года назад +1

    Thanks so much Mike and Colleen. I really laughed at the fire story at 12:20 it was so hilarious! I hope more people put up videos of their mentors that are full of stories.

  • @TeslaTales59
    @TeslaTales59 2 года назад

    Great interview. More repair vids to come?

  • @davidpepper442
    @davidpepper442 2 года назад +1

    This is a cool origin story Colleen. So many times when people like you are keeping up an old art or trade, they can point back to an individual who influenced and encouraged them. Then that person, Mike in this case, can reference the person that did this for them. It's like a lineage. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @drzecelectric4302
    @drzecelectric4302 2 года назад

    Wow he jumped all over his introduction lol. Had to get that out of the way. Right on!

  • @joaquincuervo6943
    @joaquincuervo6943 2 года назад +2

    Good job, Colleen! Very interesting interview.

  • @volodimirkun
    @volodimirkun 2 года назад +1

    What a cool gentleman . Enjoyed those stories... best regards from far Ukraine!

    • @cijoykjose
      @cijoykjose 2 года назад

      Привет Товарищ от Украинская ССР ..
      Слава Родина ..

  • @JazzBear
    @JazzBear 2 года назад

    Awesome video! Reminds me of some of my musical mentors.

  • @johnulrich5572
    @johnulrich5572 2 года назад +1

    Great video. Mike is a cool guy. Love old school audio equipment.

  • @sdjgfashjasbfasd
    @sdjgfashjasbfasd 2 года назад +1

    When guys like this talk, I shut up and listen.

  • @mitkothemacedonian
    @mitkothemacedonian 2 года назад +1

    Nice talk. Next time you should mind the miking, at times it got too quiet and when you boost the volume comes an unpleasantly loud part.

  • @jocknarn3225
    @jocknarn3225 Год назад

    Freakin' inspiring & I love a good story👍

  • @erictripton
    @erictripton 2 года назад

    Great seeing this. I originated in Hanover Park/Schaumburg and my Dad would be in and out of Roselle music when we were kids. I would think Deltronics has serviced a synthesizer or two. Pretty cool seeing generational hand down to Colleen.
    Yeah good stuff, thanks for posting this! Gets me back in touch with my birthplace. I live Southern Indiana/Louisville area.

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 2 года назад

    His story is good because it was back when you could still fix stuff and were still allowed.

  • @michaelmenkevich5712
    @michaelmenkevich5712 2 года назад +1

    great video, thank you. What a great inteview, just got better and better.
    A great teacher and review of the time and place of a great career. So real. Keep up the good work.

  • @75YBA
    @75YBA 2 года назад

    All the best from Canada 🇨🇦!

  • @larry6686st
    @larry6686st 2 года назад +1

    Mike!!! He fixed my Gallien Krueger 800RB back in early 2000

  • @Skman22
    @Skman22 2 года назад +1

    So much to love about this. Thank you.

  • @OPTIONALWATCH
    @OPTIONALWATCH 2 года назад

    I'm in the suburbs in Ilinois. Now I know where to take my audio stuff.

  • @Gazdatronik
    @Gazdatronik 2 года назад

    My dad had that WXRT shirt back in the early 90's
    Goin to tha show, and I'm justa regular guy.
    MY BUDDY MORT

  • @skipwave
    @skipwave Год назад

    Deltronics fixed my Fender-SUNN T50C long ago after UPS thrashed it
    Thanks Deltronics! 🤘

  • @kclee2222
    @kclee2222 2 года назад

    나도 파지오님이 처음에 어떻게 이길로 들어오게 되었는지 늘 궁금했습니다...^^ 게다가 요즘 흔치않은 빈티지 제품들을....미국에선 흔한가 봅니다...한국에선 구하기 참 힘든 물건들이죠..