Ep. 65: "Aim High"

<p>Bribed with cans of El Pato, guitarist Nels Cline joins Jason and Skip on this week's Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast for a transparent talk about amplifiers and hot sauce. </p> <div>Plus... listener questions, PA conversions, upcycling all those holiday spices, animal husbandry and more.</div> <div> </div> <div>Some of the topics discussed on this week's episode:</div> <div>0:12 Special guest, Nels Cline! Amplifiers (Webster-Chicago, Milkman, Studious, ZT Lunchbox), hot sauce (Mellow Habanero from heatonist.com), and music (Wilco, resonator sextets, Oregon, Ralph Towner, Weather Report, Ohmme, and more)<br /> 45:01 Today's sponsors: <a href= "https://www.amplifiedparts.com/">Amplified Parts</a> and <a href= "https://www.grezguitars.com/">Grez Guitars</a><br /> 46:07 Poll: Skip walks you through Tweed Deluxe and Brown Deluxe differences OR Fender Princeton iterations<br /> 47:59 Schematic Heaven (<a href= "https://schematicheaven.net">link</a>)<br /> 49:49 The answer to last week's Where's the Fender Death Cap? baffler<br /> 51:10 Fine tuning the reverb on a Gibson-made Maestro Reverb Echo<br /> 57:58 Marriage advice<br /> 1:02:53 What to do with a 100-watt Lafayette PA with the expander circuit? Make a Sorrel cocktail with old holiday spices (<a href= "https://www.africanbites.com/sorrel-juice/">link</a>)<br /> 1:09:21 How to determine when capacitors need to be replaced<br /> 1:15:06 Fixing a Gibson EH-150, in pieces, with a bad field coil speaker; putting a field coil speaker in a non-field coil amp<br /> 1:22:02: Is a Gibson EH-150 Class A Push-Pull? What is Class A?<br /> 1:24:34 The Country Side of Harmonica Sam (<a href= "https://youtu.be/U1XLmGJd0J4">YouTube link</a>)<br /> 1:25:52 Streaming radio stations on the internet<br /> 1:27:15 Why do so many amps in the Jack Darr book have the volume in the front of the first stage?</div> <div><br /> Support the show as a <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/vintageamps">TAVA Patreon patron</a> and get bonus episodes, in-depth articles on amp circuitry and other