More adventures in rock (or "music self-played is happiness self-made")
I bought myself a Fender Standard Stratocaster, in electron blue.
Here's what it kind of looks like (one has a better picture of the color, the other has the correct white knobs.)
Of course, as one of my goals is to play surf guitar, I need a good tube amp for that proper "wet" reverby sound. So, I sent off the following missive to my Dad, who as you may or may not know is a vacuum tube fanatic and premier radio restorer:
Hi Dad.
I decided to buy a guitar for myself - it's awesome. I can't wait to play surf rock. :P
One of the big parts of playing with a surfy 50's/60's sound, as you know, is a tube amp. If I managed to track down a vintage amp and it needed some fixing, is that something you would be interested in?
Let me know.
I love you!
His response?
Sure! We could soup it up!
Check out AES , Antique Electronic Supply Tempe AZ. They have vintage amp parts, Fender, Marshall, wahwah pedals, reverb delays, all that stuff! They have moved from a tube supplier to a supplier of support stuff for this kind of setup. There is also a book set out of NH on “Vintage Amps’ that catalogues a lot of them.. “Fixing up your Vintage amp”-titles like that. Some of what is in it is BS, but helps w info/pictures ..
Marshall amps look pretty good to me, on design, but TBD-your call...
E bay would be a good place to look for an amp.. No matter what is wrong, I can fix it. find a popped one cheap? Or whatever?
What you want is one with two or 4 6L6 or EL34 in it , two may be better, the 4 6L6 will be big and heavy..but POWERFUL.. 6L6 is also known as 5881, KT66, may be some letters after 6L6 . 6L6 GC or 6L6 W/GTC being best. But readily available from Russia now.
Love,
Dad
I love him (and my new guitar...)
Here's what it kind of looks like (one has a better picture of the color, the other has the correct white knobs.)
Of course, as one of my goals is to play surf guitar, I need a good tube amp for that proper "wet" reverby sound. So, I sent off the following missive to my Dad, who as you may or may not know is a vacuum tube fanatic and premier radio restorer:
Hi Dad.
I decided to buy a guitar for myself - it's awesome. I can't wait to play surf rock. :P
One of the big parts of playing with a surfy 50's/60's sound, as you know, is a tube amp. If I managed to track down a vintage amp and it needed some fixing, is that something you would be interested in?
Let me know.
I love you!
His response?
Sure! We could soup it up!
Check out AES , Antique Electronic Supply Tempe AZ. They have vintage amp parts, Fender, Marshall, wahwah pedals, reverb delays, all that stuff! They have moved from a tube supplier to a supplier of support stuff for this kind of setup. There is also a book set out of NH on “Vintage Amps’ that catalogues a lot of them.. “Fixing up your Vintage amp”-titles like that. Some of what is in it is BS, but helps w info/pictures ..
Marshall amps look pretty good to me, on design, but TBD-your call...
E bay would be a good place to look for an amp.. No matter what is wrong, I can fix it. find a popped one cheap? Or whatever?
What you want is one with two or 4 6L6 or EL34 in it , two may be better, the 4 6L6 will be big and heavy..but POWERFUL.. 6L6 is also known as 5881, KT66, may be some letters after 6L6 . 6L6 GC or 6L6 W/GTC being best. But readily available from Russia now.
Love,
Dad
I love him (and my new guitar...)