The Doug and Pat Show on vintage Gibson amps Part I

We've recently been checking out the Gibson amplifiers from the fifties especially the GA20T/GA30 and of course the GA40 Les Paul amp. Let's take them for a spin with "Oscar" the '58 Gold Top W/PAF's and an Eric Johnson Strat and see what the fuss is about. We just feel like we owe it to you.

[@MDwng]

a cup of coffee, vintage, amps and vintage guitars. I am jealous

[@mrphil1092]

Great vid guys, Love the great playing with great attack! Fab. Phil UK

[@cornhuskbag]

Wow old I ran into you guys. great demos! Thanks. Kind regards< Steve

[@richfiryn]

I keep coming back, for the tone too of course. The clean tones with volume rolled back on guitar are glorious, then goose it for a little filth. Tasty !

[@brushcountrybob5347]

Absolutely love the sound of these 50's Gibson amp's.Thanks for sharing these with us guy's and some damn fine playing might i ad.

[@hesse13]

Love your demos, great sounding guitars and amps and great playing, too!

[@buddhamus]

Great review. I currently own a 1955 Gibson GA-6 and I've been wanting to add another Gibson amp to my small collection. I have been looking at the GA-20, but the GA-40 sounds real nice too. Thanks for making my decision just a little bit tougher.

[@guitarhack1232]

Loved it! Those PAF's sounds amazing. Those pickups reach across all those amps! Great Job guys. Glad your back!

[@guitarpodcast]

I had a ‘56 GA 40 with a replacement greenback speaker. Fantastic amp. One of the best I’ve owned.

[@doc_matter]

New greenback or old pulsonic cones early 70s greenback?

[@guitarpodcast]

@@doc_matter I don’t know. It was a great sounding amp that served me well many years.

[@erikvaldur3334]

hello guys. I believe that flap sound you refer to is most likely bass roll off. The speaker most likely does not support all of the bass frequency. It's my understanding the low E string on the guitar resonates at 81 hertz. when a speaker does not start there ( 75 or lower in many cases) the lows flub out. I am not an amp tech or speaker tech but I do build speaker cabs and this is just learned info to help me build better cabs. I am not saying this is definitely the case, just my belief. You guys are great and wow, so is Oscar. Thanx guys

[@whimpypatrol5503]

In 1969 I walked into my 17 year old guitar teacher's 190 sq ft den for a lesson after he was fired from the local music store. Along the wall mantel was his collection of guitar trophies he had won since a kid. It was so voluminous it stretched all across 3 walls. It reminded me of a collection of bowling trophies a pro might collect over a 50 year career. But they were guitar trophies and ribbons all different. How and where remains a mystery.

[@madthemartian6298]

I have a '61 Tweed GA40...the tremolo circuit is brilliant

[@macgrory]

Yet again, another great show guys! Very informative, great playing, beautiful tones!! I have never seen a Gibson amplifier, how the hell are these amps not in every store and every rig in the land?!! They sound sublime! (OK, I know Oscar has a lot to do with the tone), but those amps sound wonderful! C'mon guys, use your influence, get on to Henry and get these amps back on the assembly line!!!

[@1991stratplus]

I love the sound of these old Gibson amps, they seem to have that mid punch that sounds great, even on single coil guitars i love the sound. I guess it's also how you dial them up.

[@madthemartian6298]

Oh Lord those PAF's sound magical

[@bgarrison67]

Oscar sure can sing. Had a Skylark and an Explorer RVT. Both were sweet low watters and the best tremolo.

[@nicolasrivera5310]

Thank you guys!!!! always delighted with your videos!

[@jb-im1ii]

The paraphase phase inveter of early gibson amps overdrives soo much sweeter than the cathondyne p.i of a tweed deluxe...

[@andyc5729]

Awesome viewing as always Doug and Pat. Nice rig.

[@raydowley1038]

Hi Doug and Pat from over the pond, what a pair of cool guys you are and posting some relaxed and informative plus funny vids. thanks guys. PS how do I get my hands on one of your T shirts

[@tenlittleindians]

I've got a 1959 Fender Harvard amp and a 1958 Gibson Gibsonette amp. Both about 10 watts I think and both with Jensen speakers. They both sound great. I think they even sound better than their bigger brothers that your demoing here!

[@pharmerdavid1432]

I've got quite a collection of vintage "golden era" Gibson amps, which came in the mid-late 1950's to very early 1960's, and Ampeg amps from their "golden era", which came in the very late 1950's to the early-mid 1960's, but I digress. I wish you had included some of the 10" speaker amps Gibson made, especially the GA-18T, my favorite daily playing at home amp, although I love them all. Another 10" speaker Gibson amp is the GA-9 Discoverer, and GA-8 Gibsonette. I've also got a custom made Les Paul Jr. amp in a 1956 Gibsonette cabinet, using the original power transformer and P-10R (re-coned), octal pre-amp tube, and larger Fender Champ sized output transformer, to push that 10" Jensen. Okay I'm bragging. The GA-9 Discoverer, is the non-tremolo version, which has two 6V6 power tubes in parallel for ~9-12 watts. It's single-ended, class A, and it rocks...but come to think of it, mine has a 12" speaker, but most had 10" speakers. Gibson did that quite often with their amps, made changes as they went along, so some of them are magic, and some are boring, but Fender was like that too. The GA-15 Titan has a 10" speaker too, voiced like a tweed Deluxe, only different (Gibsonized). Cheers! (we miss you guys..)

[@beachlifebestlife]

want another one? original owner '59 gibson ga-40 les paul amp all original with felt amp cover.... only had electrolytics changed out... excellent condition....killer sound 6k cash

[@skamok7]

I think this might be your best show yet!

[@vintageguitarz1]

You REALLY need to turn up the mics when you record these!! I have both KZbin and my Notebook volume at max, can barely hear you! I have a 48 BR-6 (near mint) lap steel amp, a 59 GA-8 "Gibsonette) blonde, a 59 GA-9T "Discoverer" (w/Tremolo), a 60 Maestro M-2-16RVT concert amp, and one of every 1960s "black tolex" GA series from the 15RVT thro the 45RVT Saturn and the GSS-100 with two 2-12 Speaker Cabs. I've been a stupid musician since 1967 (while in College).

[@evelasq1]

Doug could really play that Les Paul. Seeing this video, makes me want to purchase a Les Paul amp from the 1950s. I already own the Gibson Les Paul jr. reissue and I got it used from the Guitar Center. Great sounding amp with an eight inch speaker. A real tone machine with this five watt amp. Surprisingly loud in my living space. Just imagine playing this amp in my bedroom and it could be heard all down to the kitchen. It has a natural breakup when I work the controls on the amp and the guitar. I could actually make it sound like it was a marshall amp. When I am playing an ACDC song called Hells Bells. Gibson should never stop production on these wonderful amps. The only thing that I could do is buy a used one from the Guitar Center. If they ever start making amps again. I hope that it is Made in the USA. Our tubes for our amplifiers should be made in the USA for better quality control and we will have a better economy. I am a proud owner of a 2009 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Plus guitar. Once I set it up right even through a Carvin amp. This guitar could sound like Guns and Roses, ACDC and even Led Zeppelin. This one is a keeper. I would practice through my Fender, Gibson, Marshall and my VOX amp with this guitar. So, I have a quite a small collection including effects pedals. I won't mind owning one of the Carvin amps that once played a few years ago at a Guitar School. It was an amazing amp and it was American made. So Doug and Pat, don't stop making videos on musical instruments. Check out the Tone King on KZbin. I got to buy a few products because of his influence. I never looked back. Peace, Flood!

[@Tyler_Bee]

Hey guys. Love you guys and love the show. Gibson amps are really cool and under-discussed in my opinion. I would love to hear your thoughts on the more modern Gibson GA20RVT & GA40RVT. From what I understand they are supposed be excellent hand wired, point to point, class A amps and you don't see them often... if ever. I hope you consider it guys!

[@sangandongo]

I just picked up a sweet old '59 Gibson GA-80T "Vari-Tone." Amazing amp.

[@calebriley7466]

So good!

[@markforde3103]

Great vid guys on a little covered subject,man they sound good!.

[@victorycrosby4896]

Wish you would do a review of the last ditch effort to pull a rabbit out of the Gibson amp hat in the standel Gibson "sg" system. The 2 12 altec all tube super clean extremely loud with built in maestro phaser with oven knobs.i have lots of amps the sg system all rebuilt and is a tank.i would NEVER sell it, I run my hammond w/ Leslie threw it and a Kurz k2600x ,,,better than roland and I love Roland but the tube harmonics are there in the sg system in spades.

[@tellusthetruthmedia5525]

rectifier response aye ... nice tones ... want one

[@JamesMcCutcheon]

I have 1968 Gibson Duo-Medalist 1x12 Speaker with original Cover. Mint Condition

[@tidepoolbay]

The GA Gibson's are real nice amplifiers! Woof!!

[@MarshallAmpMan]

I want to come out and hang out with you guys, drinking tea or coffee and play cool guitars with NO pedals, my world yes!, you guys have great vibrato and have carried on the Clapton Blues breaker tradition! long live that area. Do you prefer old gibson amps or old Fender? Apples and oranges?

[@mdrpa]

Love those Gibson amps. thanks

[@nahs1988]

Great tone!!!

[@pmontgo1]

Love you guys!

[@awood9214]

New episode! Yay!!!

[@bluesfuse]

Love it!

[@aorakiboydog]

Turn the heater on guys 🤗

[@nycLPplayer]

great work as alway

[@terenceflood2861]

I just aqquired a GA-300 RVT.

[@MarshallAmpMan]

Oi ! Can you demo a Fender Deluxe 1965 reissue with a Gibson Les Paul please? No pedals please. Thank you

[@theabsolutetruth3364]

DAMN ... SWEET SPOTS ALL OVER

[@madthemartian6298]

nice playing, dig the phrasing

[@JohnHWelch63]

Those amps sound great. I don't know what happened in the mid 60s at Gibson, but their engineers must have been half in the bag drunk. I have a '65 Gibson Saturn GA 45 RVT and it sucks. There's nothing wrong with it. Everything is sound and in great shape. It just doesn't have any volume and doesn't sound near as good as those 50s amps tonewise. The eyelet board is full of unnecessary circuits and components that suck tone and power. I may have it rewired to take 12AX7s instead of the 6EU7s it has now and have someone remove the redundant circuitry.

[@samroth705]

Love the sound of the ga40 great video they all sound great. They were diffinetly designed for gibson guitars because the strat didn't sound near as good.

[@Panic42000]

Why did Gibson stop making amps? Does anyone know?

[@auntjenifer7774]

They can hardly apply clear finish to $3,900 guitars, you want am amp that was soldered and wired by those guys ?

[@prenticeemler7709]

just wondering , i bought a vintage 1969 lp1 gibson les paul pre amp , never seen one ,i know nothing about this model ,does anyone know anything about it , all i know it sounds good ,

[@madthemartian6298]

Octal tubes make the difference in the preamp

[@AidenBradley95]

Fucking hell, these things sound fantastic.

[@stevestruble2142]

What do they sound like with a p90s lp?

[@davidbuzzin426]

👍🇺🇸❤

[@keeelane]

Great tone, man. What sort of mic did you use for recording?

[@DFraserHomes]

In this show we were using a Audio Technica 4040 condenser mic and a Shure SM57 run into Pro Tools, no EQ, no compressor. D&P

[@outerloop]

OSCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ImTheReal]

The Doug here, is the Uncle Doug? (o.O)

[@govelamo]

+Humberto Martins Ferreira Junior I'm trying to figure out the same thing :D

[@ImTheReal]

+govelamo Wooooooooooooooow I'm not alone =D

[@gusdupree9076]

Nuno nope

[@emaneercsadeeni]

Mic is distorted in recording 😢

[@krang07]

Getting a lot of room sound but, do know what I`m hearing in amp tone also. Nice overall but wished you close-mic`d alittle more. Super old Paul btw.

[@mikemike940]

challenge 1962 Gibson GA-300rvt tube amp head can you do a video o that. oh please

[@terenceflood2861]

Rarest one ,I just got one ,reverb doesn't work but near mint condition.

[@guillermodebonis9502]

Can you add any info about gibson GA 75??? I have one but need to know it better thanks

[@paulfabrique5055]

"6V6 and 12" speakers"..... say no more. Heaven.

[@ebookpioneers]

+Paul Fabrique 4 x 10 sounds better with single coils though.

[@auntjenifer7774]

Alnico makes it even better.

[@scotttracey3748]

l'm selling a 58 Gibson amp GA 55V model 65790 2-12 combo for sale on kijiji kinston,ont.

[@daijones101]

GA40