1967 Vibrolux Reverb Repair | The Electric Lady 

A star is born :) Excellent repair video......accurate, thorough, and to the point. This is exactly what the amp tech biz needs, a fresh new voice to carry on the tradition.

Qué talento! Sigue así! Respetemos los viejos amplificadores. Las bandas más grandes, tocaron con ellos.

No long intros or annoying music, just straight talk...love it!

Wow, a nod from Uncle Doug. You are on the right path to YT STARDOM for sure ..

Best sleep-aid voice ever. So relaxing.

That’s why I am always collecting and repairing old amps. The engineering in the old amps is pure workmanship. You can’t work on these new amps

Glorious. Love your delivery. Keep it up!

Sounds great!! Awesome job!

Sounds marvelous!

These videos are so therapeutic

Well shot and edited. Thanks for the video.

So cool to see such a beautiful amp come back to life like that! (also loving the montage grooves)

Nice amp. Beautiful work. Done with care. It's also an excellent tutorial. Thank you Electric Lady.

Beautiful work Electric lady!

Hey colleen there are tons of us guys that love amp build vids and repair. Keep em coming.

Nice! Your videos are works of art!

Can't turn away when I start watching her fix old amps. Very fun to watch her work.

Coleen, these are fantastic videos, thanks so much!

Man, these through hole components looks so nice to work with. It looks way less fiddly then modern gear.

Love your no nonsense approach to videos. Solid explanations with clear footage of the repairs. Glad I stumbled on to your channel. Looking forward to future episodes.

Clean work. Clear explanations and camera work. Looking forward to watching your channel.

You and Uncle Doug are my favorite RU-vidrs! Love the show:)

Also as an electrical designer i like that use safety and caution with the chop stick to show exactly what you are talking about.

Very nice. Very watchable, easy to follow what you're doing.

Nice work and a great sounding finish!

You have chosen very beautiful passions that go well with each other: music and electronics you can touch and feel ! best regards from Germany

Great work, thanks for the outstanding video. Keep the faith!

Have always wanted one of these particular models. So sparkly and full sounding. Nice job. That tremolo sounds like pure butter!!!

Super stoked to see another video! I saw this pop up on my home page but it's been a while. Quality stuff! very helpful and informative once again. Very good pace when explaining each step, easy to understand. I'm still looking to work on mine in the future and having a solid source for doing so is great. Hope to see more in the future 🤘

u r not only an excellent electric doctor but also a super guitar player!!

Your channel is gonna do really well. Wish I had a channel like this when I started amp building and repair. You’re proficient and to the point. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Absolutely love this channel! So glad I found it. Please keep the videos coming. 👌 Great info, I’m learning lots.

Smooth Jazz and amp repair... So chill but informative!!

I love when suddenly you appear playing on the amp you serviced. Is like magic

Lol! Coming from the automotive industry, that is the commonly accepted way to clean sockets. 😆👍 You'd be surprised how many automotive manufacturers tell you to do just that to clean the connection: plug and unplug the connector 10x to clean the connections inside. The first time I ever saw it, I thought they must be kidding but sure enough, that fixed the issue with the customers car 🤷🤣

Another great video! Hope you get a Pro Reverb in soon for a full documented overhaul. Great stuff Electric Lady!! Respect from U.K

Amazing educational video. Uncle Doug said A Star Is Born:) The force is strong on this channel.

Great work and great video! Keep em coming!!

You are simply great

Perfeito congratulações

Beautiful lady doing excellent amp repairs. What's not to like!!!

I have a '79 SF Deluxe Reverb (pull boost vibrato channel) with a similar tremolo issue, ordered replacement caps and LDR "roach". Had this amp for about 9 months and I'm fairly new at amp repair/maintenance but familar enough with a solder iron and tinkering w/ pedal mods/building for awhile now. I've already done alot of other minor things w/ this amp (near full re-tube, retightened the tube socket pins, cleaned the pots, decided to change the awful pull boost to a pull bright like on super reverbs), got the amp with an already fairly significant re-cap job so its good there and sounds great The trem is the last thing to address, it's there...but has weak output. Great job and great channel, as many of us know and say over and over... amp repair techs (and "boutique builders") are getting harder to find and good ones to boot.

Just found your channel and subbed immediately. Always good to see anyone keeping tubes glowing!

Fulminant growth in subs just over the weekend. Congratulations, Colleen! Uncle Doug is going to be jealous 😎

Great job with the amp Colleen! Always learn so much from your channel! Its helping me take on small tasks with my own Fender Pro reverb-78 and very recently I am cleaning all of the Tube sockets and pots on my Marshall JCM800 50 Watt Combo X 1-12" speaker. I recently installed a new Eminence Red Coat Tonker in it along with replacing the Speaker cable/wiring and jack. The Amp has really brightened up which I am happy about! Love the blues you are laying down at the end! I'm hearing some Rory G influences! Thanks again, Bob

great!! wow ! just love it! keep going colleague!!

Recently sold my 1966 Vibrolux Reverb after 28 yrs. What a wonderful amp that was. Your videos are fantastic. Keep up the great work!

The Vibrolux is by far the best combo amp ever made. 35 watts and 2-10" Jensens make for a great club amp! A friend of mine played it on '10', running it from his guitar. The sag made for the best Stones sound imaginable.

Thanks for the video, was fun to watch.

25 years ago when I was a bench tech at a TV shop I restored an old Crosley TV. It was VHF only, had a 12 inch round CRT and every part and patent was made in the USA! It made a great picture and worked flawlessly. I hooked it to a VCR and watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with some co-workers. I am very happy to see there are still people out there keeping the old tech alive. It is in danger of becoming a lost art. Best wishes from Ohio and keep up the good work!

Awesome job on the Amp repair. Really enjoy the videos!

I'm a little late to the party on this vid, but that doesn't make it any less awesome - that was killer!

Really nice work. I have one of those G10s in a 5f11 I put together. I think I’ll put it in a future Princeton Reverb build. You make great videos.

I like the silicone trick. I have a blackface Vibroluxe I drug all over Okla. My tech put ceramic output tube sockets in it years ago. I like your videos. Thanks Greg. I gave 300 bucks for it.

You do nice work. 20 years ago, a co-worker (who nearly instantly morphed into a lifetime friend) gifted me an rough 67 BFVR just like that one. Cap job, output transformer, vibrato caps, and speakers. It was my first real repair/restore experience, and it came out so well and sounded so good I was hooked for life.

Sweet amplifier.👍 Good stuff.💪🥃

High praise from Uncle Doug the master....

Hey Faz that’s an awesome sounding amp. Playing is good to. My fiancé is really into building pedals and amps. She wants to find a spot to learn as much as possible. She’s gonna love your channel.

Love those Fenders. I've got a 68 Silverface Champ with the blackface circuit and the blackline faceplate.

What a nice job! Fantastic! Ciao!

You’re awesome! Thanks!

Thanks for showing close-ups of the products used - it's very helpful, especially over time when you run into something are trying to think of where you saw what used where. I just bookmark it in an amp file with a title like "Fazio (or Uncle Doug etc) Vibrolux Caps Silicone."

Great video.. keep at it..

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God, I can listen to Colleens voice all day. So Dreamy.

It was interesting to see the client had the Divine Noise speaker cable fitted. I too have had the speaker cable upgraded in my combo using a product from the UK called Turbo>Tone from The Den, Keighley. It has, as above, worked to great effect.

Nice work! Would love to see more videos!

great sounding amp now :)

I like how you fast forward the time consuming stuff and don't spend time running your mouth like some of the other techs do, you are a very good technician and I really like your videos

Pleased to meet you! Love the vids.

YAY...You're back! SWEET! 🙂

You have the best tube amp repair videos. I have a blackface fender super reverb I stopped my uncle from throwing in a dumpster. He has since passed and I really want to rebuild it. It was his high school band amp that blew up on stage he replaced it with a silver face and ended up swapping parts from the blackface to get he’s original sound back. Something along those lines was the story. His some now has the silver face with the drivers and tubes/parts from the one I now have. It’s just a chassis with most components. Needs a major overhaul but I plan on doing it soon. As Hunter Menning would say “eliminate the fear, open up the gear”

great work!

Vibrato sounds great,will get the job done on my 74 Pro Reverb as it also sounds weak 👍

5:34 very nice strat. love the color...............

Brava!!!

So great to see people from a younger generation sharing their skills … it’s sad that so many so called younger engineers don’t have this sort of knowledge and experience. Yes they build stuff with arduinos etc. but so many lack the real underpinning knowledge of electronics that the commercial world seem to write off. Great stuff lady x

Thanks 😊😇

Excellent.

Hi there, i have started using a bamboo skewer or a round wooden tooth pick to clean tube sockets . you might just be surprised how much black comes off . and the gradual point doesn't open the socket. love the videos keep it up .

Nice chops

Awesome video !

I really appreciate how you work ... highly skilled and very observant.. and you sure know your stuff ... good onya girl !! Us girls are not just pretty faces are we 😂😂... I too are a girl who has an electronic background... I'm an electronic engineering graduate and audio engineer as well ..... so it's with great ease and understanding watching you breathe new life into these old " souls" of yesteryear.... well done ... I think your terrific 😍..!

I've had good luck with sovtek tubes. I owned a sovtek amplifier for awhile. The sound was heavy (with bass) but loud.🔈🎸

haha love the video edits in your posts. The music on this one cracked me up!

Great content, thanks

U.D. seal of approval, good enough for me.

Nice amp.

Nicely done! I know I’m just listening through a phone but goddamn those Alessandro speakers sound amazing!

Customer must be elated with the end result! No question that you are a professional.

cool amp

Great tech & total babe

IIRC, a .22 caliber gun cleaning brush works well for clearing oxidation from those internal jack connections. From what I understand, a bit of DeOxit afterward helps keep them clear for a while. But I'm just a guitar player, so what do I know? And it is amazing what gunk in those pots will do to attenuate the proper frequencies in a guitar amp, especially the treble pot. It can be like taking a blanket off a speaker cabinet ... And this amp sounds fabulous; perhaps that cabinet is helping out that bottom end! Trem is really strong. Would love to own one of these but I don't need that kind of power anymore. Great job on this amp upgrade!

very over the top nice

Most amp techs are too ruff then they service vintage amps You have a softer touch I hate my amps being manhandled Good job

When the background music came on I thought I was watching a Kush After Hours video 😹

Glad you don't mind turning them up. Most repair people are too chicken. Many of us want to hear them wide open or damn near. Although you didn't crank this one I've noticed most other repairs you have. Thanks.

Btw you have chops to. No one ever showed me the basics, I have a mechanical engineer in the family, never said a word about, deoxiT, discharging capaciters, cleaning sockets, soldering techniques, or how to read basic wireing schematics. I liked the video.

Cool..Clear and so informative..Thanks for sharing..Ed..U.K..😀

Wow, all I get in are hot Rod deville and deluxe! You get the cool stuff