'52 Champion 600 Gets a New Speaker and New Old Tubes

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[@weschilton]

That thing sounds a LOT better than it looks!

[@bonedome8324]

Clones of these are so easy to build, it's only a handful of parts and it will cost you probably 10% of what the real ones sell for. I love mine and I play it every day. Awesome amp and video!

[@joekyleboston]

This had all the elements of a great two-part series. Excellent. Thank you.

[@jakefrancis9521]

Wow, the clean sound is killer. Despite having a drummer brother and a late 60's Park 75 I'm a low volume guy (except when I'm not). My main instrument is unplugged electric guitar 🤔. Loving your channel. You are the Jens Larsen of amp teching 🤙. Masses of great info given freely. Thanks a lot.

[@brucehayes7251]

Thank you sir for a most informative day. As Ive commented before,I'm in awe of your technical skills,I am well versed in donkey work ,fitter,grave digging and floor sanding,but electronic/ amp repair,apart from speaker swapping, scares the **** out of me

[@tomoshea5683]

Great video; great sound! I really like the distorted blues sound...great for harp.

[@75YBA]

I love my Warehouse G12Q’s. I’ve had them for 8 years and they are amazing.

[@JEmilioJNava]

Lovely little amp! ... I own a '66 Showman-Amp but will be glad to own one of these also.

[@mrkite89]

Wow, that little amp sounds great!

[@nickdevriese]

Nice. There is a definite differ between a collector or a player. I prefer the latter. Nice job!

[@edwardhannigan6324]

That's a little beauty..Great job and fab sound..Ed..uk..😀

[@jamesflack8624]

As always, another good'un. Cheers 🍻

[@halhawkins7641]

Excellent!!!!

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

That's what my Selmer "little giant" sounded like!!

[@paulcowart3174]

I have a mystery buzz in an old Supro Chicago 51 combo Speaker has a little hole in it and buzz continues at louder volumes so thinking it's the little tear and not a chassis issue It's an old field coil speaker Someone stripped the Tweed off of it and the tounge and groove construction is very cool

[@oldguy5381]

Sounds good on my end

[@richclayton5785]

Congrats! No wrist brace.

[@cgavin1]

Can't get Webbers in the UK for some reason, so I have found the Jensen (alnico) P8R to hit the sweet spot in most champ scenarios. Loads of bottom end and a nice sweet sparkly clean. My only criticism is that the treble can be rather strident on a new'ish speaker with the default bypass cap values. I find I prefer 10uf on the cathode and a 22uf on the screen filter to stiffen things up a bit. Of them all the 5F2A was the one I built and used the most (slightly bigger cabinet makes all the difference with an 8" speaker) but I always ended up disconnecting the bright cap which makes it more or less a choke-less 5E2. 🤷‍♀

[@leedelysid5270]

Oh hey on a past video you mentioned you know some good amp technicians in Dallas/Ft Worth ? I got a 68 reissue princeton reverb I'm absolutely in love with, It'd be nice to increase the headroom a little bit if possible but more importantly I would want work done to make sure it'll last me a long time, or to know somebody in case anything goes wrong.

[@PsionicAudio]

We've lost touch but see if Dustin Beasley is still working on amps.

[@dennisflock3958]

Killer on the Zep@

[@richardlynch5632]

Great looking neck on your strat😉😎👍

[@PsionicAudio]

...sometimes I just look at it... If you know, you know.

[@richardlynch5632]

@@PsionicAudio Yep😉😎👍

[@goodun2974]

The Sylvania tube was obviously military JAN-spec (Joint Army-Navy) and in most cases those would have been specially built, and/or tested & selected, to be rugged and resistant to vibration, and therefore less likely to be microphonic.

[@douro20]

There's also the 5693 which is a special ruggedized 6SJ7 with a guaranteed 10,000-hour operating life.

[@danielsaturnino5715]

That amp has been around quite alot.. so much of the cabinet missing :)

[@soundknight]

That zep riff definetly needs the G#

[@PsionicAudio]

Yup.

[@JamesMcCutcheon]

No wonder this amplifier has so much desire for players and collectors. I love simple and it sounds much better than I expected. Awesome, channel. My favorite. I like what you do, how you do it and I like the No B.S.

[@voxpathfinder15r]

Some 8” speakers are amazing! The stock speaker in a Vox Pathfinder 15/15R amplifier has an amazing amount of bass! Although it’s an oversized cabinet for an 8” speaker. But it’s open back, theoretically if a cabinet is open back - it’s size should have little to no effect on low end tuning, but then again what do I know?

[@stevem.1853]

I've used it as a practice amp for guitar and bass! I think the larger the back panel, even if it's not a closed cabinet, does help

[@PsionicAudio]

Cabs and their dimensions etc still matter. A lot.

[@voxpathfinder15r]

@@PsionicAudio that’s what my gut tells me, I am trying to defer to the experts and their claims. Maybe one day I will get some test equipment and figure it out

[@justovision]

If you have small tear in a speaker you can patch it with liquid electrical tape. If it's a good speaker and it's not handling 100 watts it just needs to not buzz.

[@justovision]

To continue to recommend the MP-5 it has an 8 ohm output transformer and an external speaker jack. You can get the small cab stuff or drive a big cab. For $100.

[@TempoDrift1480]

How do you like those tuners? I put some on a Les Paul also and I think I prefer the Stew Mac jobs I had.

[@PsionicAudio]

I love the functionality. Don't like the look. I may try the locking Gotohs (sadly the ones with the thumbwheel as their better looking locking ones don't work with the conversion bushing flange size).

[@jacksheldonwilkes4728]

Do you recommend the $1,200 57' champ reissue? I want something like that, that is low wattage and simple and well made. But I don't really don't want to spend more than $1500 or $2,000 tops.

[@tedcuff9155]

Do you think you might have gotten less microphonics with a metal 6SJ7?

[@Pgu9de]

Cram several wooden matchsticks in the holes with Elmer’s. Best way to make a hole smaller.

[@PsionicAudio]

One of the "holes" has no side wood remaining. Thinking it's epoxy putty time for that one. But yeah, I have a thing of wooden toothpicks and Titebond handy for almost daily use.

[@richardweinberger2756]

@@PsionicAudio The Abatron company makes a superior wood repair epoxy product. Extremely strong.

[@ali2ndmail]

Yeah the overdriven /breakup sound is rather soft for the Lemon Song.

[@johngore5127]

Frank Zappa used to record his guitar through a Pignose amp, I suspect because the size of the amp got rid of any extraneous frequencies and concentrated on the guitar tone. A good mic would be more useful in this case.

[@Splattle101]

Late to the party, but if the wood of the cab is too rotten for the screw, a better fix would be to drill the hole until the rotten wood is gone, and then glue in a dowel.

[@PsionicAudio]

It's not rotten. But enough pine was missing on one side that I turned it over to my guitar tech friend who will be putting in dowels.

[@Splattle101]

@@PsionicAudio Good move. 👍👍

[@tombryan1]

You are going to use a power tube and then return it? Not goos sir, that's not good for the next customer. Do they have a policy that allows tube rolling and then returns? If so, I won't do anymore business with them.

[@PsionicAudio]

They won't sell it to someone else. It's a reject. It happens.