I own tube amps but have absolutely no desire to fiddle with their innards,thankfully there are still people like you with the skill and patience to keep our toys alive and happy. Content makes a channel,the more realistic the more appeal to myself
I was just thinking the other day,”What happened to GROWING old?” It happens suddenly over night!! Congrats on 9k ! I just congratulated Uncle Doug on 100k. You guys have both taught me so much!!
Congratulations and thank you for featuring “my” amp once again. I own two now from the ‘90’s and will always watch these DeVille episodes through and am taking notes. I follow recipes well. Enjoy your success with this amp today 🙏
Congrats on the 9k! So grateful I stumbled across your channel (OK the algorithm pushed me here) literally days before buying a late 90s HRD. So thanks for saving me from buying a HRD. Bought an AC15 instead and couldn't be happier.
...and here I was at 19:40 thinking "Man, them's some sweet cleans. Never heard a vibrola stay in tune that well!" then 40 seconds later "...more on that later." LOL!
Congrats Lyle, you'll be a "real" youtuber in no time! That Deville, looks like its seen a rough life... I'm not surprised the owner keeps bringing it back.
You've certainly earned all 9K subscribers! This is easily my favorite channel on RU-vid! I cannot thank you enough for all the insight, tips, and ideas you have shared over the years. I know it was a major influence in my decision to build that AA864/AB165 Bassman hybrid! Here's to gaining many more subscribers in the future!
Congratulations on the 9k! My alter ego just passed 20 subscribers so if you're not real I'm not worth the electrons used to illuminate this comment. Grumpy old man or not, I always get a golden nugget or two from each or your videos. Thanks for sharing!
Congrats on 9k! I subscribed today I recently found your channel and have been binge watching and only just realized I wasn’t subscribed. I am about 45 minutes drive from Memphis, and have zero interest in doing any amp work myself. However, when the need arises I know exactly who I am contacting, now! Quick question: I have seen people say the bassbreaker 007 is not tech friendly and not worth trying to modify. I really like mine (too old to care about cool points) except I have to keep the bass between 0-1 and I’d LOVE an effects loop for reverb, delay, eq(which would also be a nice workaround for boominess) etc. Are those reasonable things to consider having addressed or would you suggest living with it or selling to replace it with a different low wattage amp? I play it daily and it has really served me well despite limitations. Again, great channel, great work, and congratulations on super-mega-stardom!
Congratulations, Lyle, well done. I think for what RU-vid offers you may be one of the best in your profession on the site. I'm looking forward to the continued growth of your channel and content.
Returns crush me too. Your process is very thorough, so you know you’ve done everything possible to avoid it. I also try to be very fair with people. These amps have lives of their own... You definitely got burned by the work that was done before you saw it. Congratulations on the subscriber count, well deserved. Thanks for the info and tips.
"The Riff" really is pretty useful for getting a quick sense of a clean amp. Just one of those autopilot things you do when trying a guitar. Everybody's got 'em. I didn't even realize I was doing it all the time until people pointed it out.
Congratulations on 9k!! And your not old and bitter. So many of the younger generations get so offended so very easily when someone tells it like it is. I'm a gen-x myself and I get in similar situations. Your channel is my favorite channel by far. Keep up the great content and again Congratulations.
I just want to make it clear that I don't sit around bitching about "millennials" or "gen z." I welcome those eating avocado toast or wanting an amp for K-Pop (though I suspect most such are using modelers). Whatever makes music.
Your welcome o knowledgable one,well worth subscribing just for the money/time/hassle you have saved me with my blues jr,by showing how to cool bias etc etc,once again Thank you and congratulations ,well deserved
Ah yes the layers of the onion...what is an even worse scenario--"Hey, can you come look at my 64 Twin, the Trem isn't working." Trip 1, weak tube. Trip 2, bad soldier joints from previous tech. Trip 3, weak disk caps...owner not letting me take the amp to run it on my time to present the problem to me--must be heat related, but I've never seen it happen and fix it once and for all... Congrats on the subs!
Your channel is the best concerning amps and you are clearly a subject matter expert Lyle! I am happy to be a Subscriber and believe you will reach 20,000+ this year! It would be of interest to me to see one the ubiquitous Hot Rod Deluxe wrecks converted to something like the 5F4 Super PTP using some the old parts.
Thanks very much Mac! The reason I'm never rushing to make HRDs into something else is pretty simple : the chassis holes for the tubes are oversized and will not accept chassis mounted sockets. Or at least not without a lot of work. I'm happy to build amps but would rather use a new chassis with fewer constraints. I'm also not that interested in building a 5F4. Glad to restore them, but don't much care for that stock circuit.
Congrats Lyle on 9k! Love your videos. Something that I've not seen you touch on a lot is train wrecks and clones. Maybe some day you might do a video or two on the touch sensitivity and harmonics that players like Trey Anastasio get. Have you ever worked on a Comet?
Thanks man. I've not had any Komets in but I've had some Wrecks in, both real and copies. Pretty scarce though. The main issue is to sound right they have to be on the verge of self destruction. Move one wire the tiniest bit and you get noise and/or oscillation. Very much a balancing act.
Thanks very much for such excellent videos and tips. I repaired my son's 4x10 Deville where the input jack had no nut, and a screen grid resistor opened up causing it to red plate, put in new output tubes. Cleaned up a lot of cracked solder joints. Seems to be okay but I was wondering if the 12AY7 in V1 and 12AT7 in V3 might be a good change? My son is not happy with the tone or the touchy controls.
@@PsionicAudio i'm coming from the opposite end. I was a die-hard Les Paul guy for years and years. I had never owned a strat. I finally got to really try out a strat and found the feel and the sound i have always been looking for. I've definitely changed my tune.
Do the new year model devilles still have these problems. I was looking at picking one up. But saw these videos and now I am a little leery. Or could you point me to a better amp in this price range.
I've just checked with the philosophy faculty. Apparently you're venturing into the region where the status of the amp may be in doubt. With so many parts replaced there is a debate as to whether it is in fact the same amp at all.
have you worked on the mike landau sig. model deville? or the george benson? i know they use a 12at7 in the preamp for less gain. do they have the same inherent problems?
Ok almost Boomer . Being a Boomer my most used reply is Just for fun I say get a job your paying for my retirement ! Followed by try much harder it not an insult. The smart ones will lean form the experienced . The fool just make fun of the older ones . Much as was said to me in the funeral business if you do your job well the problem does not return . But you do get referrals .
John Williamson, I am 64, a late model boomer, and although it's been a while since somebody used "Okay Boomer" on me, my go to retort was always the same: "OK incel". That usually shut them up, but one guy actually responded to that with "fair enough" . There might actually be some hope for that guy.....
Lyle, I hat to say it, dude but I don't stick around for the playing test because you always play that very same lick, the E major thing with the A thrown in on top. Sometimes I go to bed and can't get to sleep because I've got that dang-blasted lick in my head and it drives me nuts. Now don't get me wrong, I understand. That's your test lick. You know it by heart and you know how it should sound from amp to amp. It's a way of comparing variables based on a known quantity. I get it. But it drives me nuts. Also, it's like Chinese Water Torture, wondering if you're going to follow it with the augmented chord as you sometimes do. On one hand you might be offended and think, man, this guy's a real dick. On the other hand, consider how many of your videos I must have watched (and continue to watch) to get to this point. I would, therefore, humbly suggest, for the recorded playing test, playing a different lick. So I can sleep at night. Please.
@@PsionicAudio I will write and record a song based on this lick I will modulate from E to Eb.. I will get a record contract and release it. It will become a viral hit. You will be inflicted with copyright strikes. Muah ha ha ha! The world is my onion!
