The Insider’s Guide to… Tube Amp Maintenance

January 2019

Our recently-launched podcast, The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons, may just be one of the most informative (and entertaining) projects we’ve ever done. Every two weeks, vintage amp expert Skip Simmons drops some serious knowledge on us, answering a wide array of amplification questions from listeners around the world. It helps that he’s also hilarious.

In our first few episodes, we’ve learned what it’s like to be a drawbridge operator (that was Skip’s old day job), how to audition a potential amp repairperson and learned why Skip doesn’t put a three-prong cords on every old amp that...

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