1971 Fender Twin Reverb | Vintage Amp Repair | The Electric Lady

Watch me overhaul a 1971 Fender Twin Reverb! I replace output tubes, screen resistors, and capacitors.

[@anavictorialadulce]

Bonus karma points for soldering those caps so the next tech can read the values without desoldering them. Mark of a great technician.

[@UncleDoug]

Very nice work, Colleen.....and an excellent video to document it. Thanks for posting !!

[@kkteutsch6416]

Only a sugestion, I'm a repair technician since I was 13 - Now 68 - and the flux and soldering fumes are dangerous, please use even a single mask to prevent from its inhalation, I developed an alergic reaction from that fumes that leds me not to interrupt totally from my job - I'm retired now but still working, in a very slow rate - mostly of the 55 years ago I used to repair tv sets and by 21 years I was an employee from Embratel in BRAZIL, repairing shf transmission equipment, very nice and professional your job, keep posting your videos !

[@TheGuitologist]

First time seeing your channel. Great job! Welcome to the amp repair club.

[@samlee2562]

Plot twist: she's removing parts to build her own all original vintage frankenst'amp... 🤔 🤖

[@raxxtango]

THERE IS A MOD FOR THIS SILVERFACE THAT CONVERTS IT TO TWO-SEPARATE AMPS - A FENDER PRO & THE FENDER TWIN. GERALD WEBER DESCRIBES AND DETAILS THE CIRCUIT CHANGES TO THIS AMP IN "VINTAGE GUITAR" MAGAZINE - PROBABLY FROM THE MID 1990'S. USE AN A/B/AB SPLITTER TO RUN INTO BOTH CHANNELS - YOU CAN HAVE A PRO OR A TWIN...OR THE COMBO OF BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY .

[@Callmenobody174]

Why could I even just sit here and listen to her read the phone book? 🤔

[@ferdberfle5069]

Nice to see a young person embrace this kind of old school electronics! I'm a retired Navy Electronics tech and worked on a lot of this kind of vacuum tube circuits back in the day. Color me subscribed!

[@chicolopez8722]

Hmmmm? Wonder if a domestic cat can walk on sand? Never seen this before.very interesting study onto itself.

[@ThrillingTwo]

Love the sound and feel of this video. No distracting/annoying music, just the sound of the work and your description. Great editing. Subscribed!

[@jeffford7508]

Thanks for the video, I probably watched it a dozen times. I just did this to my Dads 70 Twin Reverb that's been sitting since he passed away 18 years a go. It sounds great. You made it look easy. Thank you for helping me get my Dads vintage amp working again.

[@andyhightides]

Servicing vintage Fender amps is the most chill thing in the world to me. Thank you.

[@anthonysilva5312]

Uncle Doug and the Guitalogist are on board; so am I.

[@guitarded5198]

A popping amd hissing 1981 twin brought me here. Great video!

[@themikepadua]

I will watch people repair amps ALL. DAMN. DAY. So cool to see new people joining the fray!

[@spacelab2756]

I’m so happy to see that Uncle Doug has spun off such an excellent and confident technician. Great editing work. Really nice. Glad to know there will be service techs in the decades to come.

[@paulsteezo1772]

Nice to see you posting videos again!! Your work is MAGNIFICENT!!!! COOL DOG TOO

[@maryannmoran-smyth3453]

Good looking smart intelligent girls working on vintage amps well you can’t go wrong… Keep on rockin

[@paulj0557tonehead]

I had that exact amp from '86 to '93, when I scored an early Vibro-King in perfect original, still working, (no hum on orig caps) on a pizza delivery for $600! I used to go to the Hollywood guitar shops in the 80's and buy their old Fender amp chassis' (mostly) to learn amp repair. They'd sell me brown face and black pface for $30-40. There was no Groove Tube amp bible, just RCA manuals and I had a set of four 1950 US Army Electronic study manuals. Being handy, I was able revive nearly every amp. A great solid state amp to play electric or acoustic guitar through is the FET transistor 1976 Ampeg G110 W/ REVERB and TREMOLO. The DeArmond D240 wire wound + piezo acoustic hole pickups are worth their weight in gold!

[@misterbonzoid5623]

This is so great. I spent 14 years doing this stuff and you explain and film it so well. Love the laid-back delivery and lack of bullshit music and nonsense.