The debut episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons is now live!

Every month on this podcast, guitar amp guru Skip Simmons shares stories and fields your questions on tube amp buying, restoration and repair. Co-hosted by the Fretboard Journal’s Jason Verlinde.

Topics discussed on this particular episode:

-Restoring a Gibson “Charlie Christian” amp from the ’30s/’40s

-Repairing amps on a drawbridge

-60Hz/50Hz hum

-Troubleshooting amps

-Solid-state rectifiers

-Recommended new vacuum tubes for amps

-The magic behind Alexander Dumble

-Skip’s influences (Les Paul, Jack Darr, Steve Melkisethian/ Angela Instruments, Earl Yarrow)

and much more…