Meet the Makers: with REVV's Derek Eastveld

[@ibmikebib]

Another wonderful and worthy segment, thank you Keith. Too much to talk about, yet here’s my own piece. I luckily grew up with a lot of great music and people around me, that got me started. My dad was a heavy duty electronics guy in the military and personal business. The electronics saved him from going to Vietnam. I picked up on that stuff at a young age and have continued into my 50’s with guitar playing and the interest of amps and everything in between. I worked in the audio/visual industry for over 20 years and met some very talented people. My buddy who was an expert on everything built his own $10-20 amps for his own pleasure and taught me so, so much, I’m beyond grateful. He unfortunately passed away from cancer, not a sob story. Point being, the collection of tubes that I have amassed through the years is awesome. It makes a huge difference if you are willing to play the game and experiment. This is a great video and has a huge correlation with my personal life. I’m still hard at it; I love my guitars, amps, tubes and all the other stuff I have that is musically related. I do have other hobbies as well, but it all ties into the love, lore and whatever else involving wood, metal, electricity and so much more. Sorry for rambling, I do love your videos, you inspire in your own way, I respect that big time!

[@ibmikebib]

Edit: I type too fast at times. My friend who was our electronics repair guy, built his own amps etc. I meant $10-20,000 amps. Extremely high end with the absolute best components and tubes that I never had personally seen. My friends and I pushed him to build guitar amps. It was honestly humorous in such a wonderful way. He built an original Plexi head and had such a hard time comprehending the whole thing of gain. We had to reassure him that it was required. The amp came out beyond amazing; we called it the “loud bot”, It sounded exactly like a vintage Plexi with a bit more adjustability. I built my own amp that my friend Ken designed based on a Fender Champ circuit. Probably five watts peak, it’s so clean and smooth sounding with a 6V6 power tube, a very old RCA 12ax7 preamp tube and 5y3wgtb rectifier tube. It has a massive set of transformers and equally heavy choke. The sound is pristine and the heaviest small, single channel amp that I own. It awesome that I built it myself with direction from a master!

[@monday6524]

I liked hearing about the amps and the history!

[@StephaneBergeronPixelyzed]

I like the G4 and the Red channel on the Generator SO much more thank the purple and G3! I'm very happy with my Dynamis 7-40. I can do the Two-Notes stuff externally but the clean on the Dynamis 7-40 is simply amazing to me and I love its Red channel too.

[@alexcorona]

I have one of their G3 pedals and I LOVE it. Saving up to buy one of their heads.

[@mikebolin4311]

I had no idea how much info there is to guitar amps. Well done, guys. Time to start out by looking at Revv amps!

[@3DeadDucks]

Derek, one neo speaker I keep finding good reviews of is Jensen Tornado 100 Classic. Have you tried it? Personally I haven't had a chance to try it yet. It also might lean more towards alnico then ceramic sound so it might not be what you're looking for.

[@johnandre5558]

Is that tele a modified JV modified?

[@fivewattworld]

It is

[@johnandre5558]

@@fivewattworld Outstanding sir.

[@myshow667]

does the fat cat in the back have a name?

[@fivewattworld]

Do you mean that pluffie? He’s a Pokémon “Snorlax”.

[@myshow667]

@@fivewattworld ah thought it was a cat. Amp Furries rule