The wisdom and crimes ;-) of the influential Amp Rebuilder Tommy Folkesson!

[@RobCmusic]

It's easy to forget that these guys are having a conversation in a foreign language. Impressive!

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks man :-)

[@RobCmusic]

@@JohanSegeborn No thank you for the great videos you make that are in English!

[@danielforsberg4018]

Tommy was the one who got me really interested in amps and he’s always been a very good teacher and mentor to me. Later years he has also been a good friend and we chat quite often. I’m forever thankful! 🙏 And Tommy if you read this: Thank You!!

[@JohanSegeborn]

Cheers Daniel!

[@tommyfolkesson4613]

Thank you Daniel! And that goes for you, as well. One of my best friends and you learn me a lot about taking care of my old body. Diet and health. Cold showers and winter swimming! / Tommy

[@danielforsberg4018]

@@tommyfolkesson4613 this made my day! 😊🙏

[@judgegroovyman]

I could watch this all day long. It is fantastic

[@js6729]

I love that he mentions Made in Japan, one of the greatest live albums of all time

[@crimson_sun7274]

Johan this is a great cutural deed! Tommy Folkesson should deffinately be considered on of the greats and it's a privilege to hear your conversation!

[@ironageamplification1791]

Amazing video, thank you for this knowledge. Very cool stories. "My ears tell me what to do" is as accurate a quote as I've ever heard.

[@stevenmgyori3826]

Well done Johan and Tommy! A Great interview and history chronicle! A fine interview consists of a host who doesn't have to ask many questions! Tommy really explains his history Well! Have a great weekend and Be Well All!

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks brother, yeah Tommy is the ultimate interviewee, he’s a great and open minded story teller

[@Filoofa]

Unfortunately I haven’t seen this interview before, and now when I do see it, I think it’s brilliant. Tommy really gets the time to elaborate on his ideas and work, and Johan is sensitive enough not to get in his way. I know there are some old farts out there critiziing Tommy for violating old amps. But I can assure them, we were many guitarists in the 80:ies that searched for the guitar sound of our dreams - without having a fortune to spend on the gear that our guitar idols used. Tommy helped us getting closer to the sound we searched. And still is, with a crowd of world known guitar players turning to him. His knowledge, experience and humility is obvious to see in the interview.

[@siegfriedwashburn3484]

Hi, Johan! That was very interesting! Those interviews are opening some knowledge, that very hard to find. Greatest thanks! Have a nice weekend! Zigfrid

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks man, glad you like it! Have a great weekend you too my friend !

[@gib412]

Interesting that he mentions running the guitars through a tape deck and then into the amps. A dual cassette tape deck was technically my first amp back in 78. I discovered that if you dimed the input levels you could get quite a distorted output signal.

[@judgegroovyman]

That innovation and really cool that you tried that and it worked!

[@LemmyBass]

Thank you for the interesting and informative conversation. Somehow with nice sounds it's like trying to find a nice place, you have to go with open ears and eyes until you reach your destination one day : )

[@johnnybrown9581]

Love this format of videos. You’re a natural interviewer

[@DMSProduktions]

A bit long, but very informative! Thanks Joh & Tommy! \m/

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks DMS!

[@hellsSG]

When i studied music during gymnasium all 3 marshall stacks were Folkesson modded :-)

[@Marshall-uy2dv]

Great interview! Im glad you did this interview, one of his amps actually inspired my Van Halen tone Chase!TheMarshallmaniac is the guys KZbin channel, check out the video where he is demoing jj6ca7 power tubes. He starts out jamming to D.O.A. from Van Halen 2. I guarantee you it will be one of the best amps you have ever heard! The amp in that vid is incredible, I mean wow! Check it out people if you haven't already, you won't be sorry!

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks! I’ll check it out!

[@paulj0557tonehead]

I've found the right special V1 preamp tube's Plate Coupling capacitors can make a very good sounding amp sound great. In 1986 I basically gutted and reused the parts to build a Marshall 1969 /1971 head from my incredibly stout 1973 SOUND CITY MkIV 120R (5 preamp tube, 6- Mullard EL34/Partridge Transformers aka Hiwatt transformers). I happened to find some piece of broken antiquated German audio visual equipment at a thrift store packed full of mustard dipped radial capacitors. So I had several .001uf and .022uf caps to experiment with, as well as other brands of caps. Very few had drifted. At any rate, I found the SS120's first stage .001uf sounded so special I kept it for the build. And only _that_ original cap sounded that good.

[@kkrekula]

Nice to see and listen to a legend! I am just trying to get my old Music Man HD-212 in shape but if I'd live closer to Tommy I would have contacted him a long time ago :) (I think he did som MM mods too)

[@jcoulter43]

Very cool! You should continue to do these and then at the end, play thru some of the builder's products. You might need to upgrade your mics for the interviews. I think you're on to something doing this type of thing occasionally on your channel. God bless and rock on 😎🎸👍

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks J! Yeah my initial mic concept didn’t really cut it 🤣

[@diederikbronsvoort7461]

@jcoulter43 i agree with yoy

[@paulcowart3174]

VERY cool....gotta hear his mods now

[@JohanSegeborn]

Glad to hear that! Here’s the he Mk7 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpTJqJaJer2Xb8k

[@Kashed]

Great interview Johan! Would love to see you do a video to highlight some of Tommy’s mods. It always amazes me how some of the best amp and pedal mods are done by guys who are self taught. Electronics are so voodoo to me, I wouldn’t know where to start. I always wanted to know how to do mods. -K

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Kurt! I demoed the mkVII here The Marshall Mod that makes you play MUCH better - Tommy Folkesson Eternal Classic MkVII

[@JohanSegeborn]

More will follow! :-)

[@peterschaefer1665]

This was a fantastic interview John but if you get together with Tommy again, ask him about the "Eternal Classic " JMP -1 preamp mod please. They sound fantastic and an interesting story. Cheers!

[@FKinGen]

super!

[@highdb1]

It would be nice to line up four or five amplifiers and play them, displaying the tones. And then discuss the changes you would like and have Tommy modify them. And then play them again and discuss.

[@guitarocd9984]

Your curiosity about where are these amps now. I was thinking the same thing.

[@JohanSegeborn]

We can recreate them otherwise! Amps that gets played is the best amps

[@stefftrim]

Tak Johan and Tak Tommy for the interview. I am dabbing with an 10 band equaliser in front on the the amp, keeping the bass low before the gain stage because my reference is a jtm45. Instead of the presence control I can toogle in a 68nf with a 2k7 in V1 and a 68nf with 4k7 on V2. and an ekstra resistor just before the toogle. But I have to introduce the bass later in the chain. It has given me a starting point. Wonderful inspiration to listening to Tommy. I have heard some of his work on a JCM900 witch I also have in my collection.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Thanks Steffen!

[@Andy_Yates]

Always takes a little longer to get to a long form video, but I really enjoyed the interview. The part about the transformer differences was really interesting. I could tell your engineering mind wanted to know more about his test methods and notes :)

[@jaycee30865]

Johan sits down with Viggo Mortensen.

[@JohanSegeborn]

Hahaha! Now that you mention it I can certainly see that!

[@jaycee30865]

@@JohanSegeborn don’t talk to me about duty son just open the fucking safe.

[@rveurope]

Great👍..... Why not place a halfstack near each of you guys ..then input into the mixer, Mixer into Marshall, Marshall into a free fullstack...booom we are plexi mic'd

[@JohanSegeborn]

Yeah the Stadium version 😀

[@willdenham]

When all is said and done we can still agree that power tube breakup has a different character than preamp, correct? Or is he saying it's dependant on the output transformer and how they interact?

[@JohanSegeborn]

Power amp and preamp contribution to tone is indeed different but I’m not sure if power tube break up (pushing them out of the linear region) is even a desirable thing. That’s certainly something I’d like to learn more about.

[@willdenham]

@@JohanSegeborn Past the sweet spot, is that what is meant by out of linear region or noon? My rig right now is a 65' Fender, it sounds similar to the Bassman head you scored. Even dimed it sounds good but I still keep it around 7 and push it with an eq and drive pedal for more juice and sustain. Still continue to tweak it, swapping drives, reshaping eq, always looking for what best compliments the band, but that master always stays at 7 or so.

[@diederikbronsvoort7461]

What type of filter are you discussing at 53 minutes?

[@tommyfolkesson3975]

It's called a Zobel filter. It works together with coils and passive resonce circuits.