The Guitologist | 7 years ago

In this vid, we'll heavily modify a 1966 GA-15RVT Explorer tube amp. This thing came to me with the characteristic BUZZ of bad power caps, had a bad set of rattling output tubes, and just generally needed a rebuild of the power supply. But we'll use this opportunity to turn this dud into a stud. In addition to the work on the power supply, we'll totally rework the preamp, adding an extra gain stage, a gain control, bright switch, and Marshall style tone stack with SECRET HIDDEN Midrange Control! ;)

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