1956 Silvertone 1333 | Vintage Amp Restoration | Fazio Electric
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Watch me refurbish the circuit in a late 50's Silvertone 1333 tube amp.
This is the last video shot in my first Los Angeles workshop (shot Sep 2021). My hiatus is due to moving, traveling, and looking for a new spot. Thank you all for sticking around!
If any Chicagoland folks would like their amp serviced, I will be here through the month of December 2021. Shoot me an email, and be sure to mention you're in Illinois.
EMAIL: fazioamps@gmail.com
INSTAGRAM: @fazioelectric
I am 68,electronics engineer with 42+ years of experience. I see the patience you have and appreciate the logical analysis you do to troubleshoot the amp. Very well done. Congrats.
Except for one thing, she replaced the power cord with plastic cables on the interior. If you notice, the original power lines were cloth covered to prevent power source melting and causing a short. That's a rookie mistake!
Great movie.
It's nice to hear a woman's voice on the technical channel and nice colored nails instead of hairy paws.
Best wishes
Hi Colleen , Thank you again for the work you have done on this amp ! All your effort has resulted in my Dads's old Silvertone being one of the most requested amps in my studio backline . Your work is beyond fantastic !
I have used other Tube Gurus in the past and your work ethic and attention to detail set you above the rest .
For the record I am using the amp most often with a Fender bassman cab loaded with NOS Muscle Magnets . These
are old production Eminence speakers that really bring out the Silvertone sound .
Thank you again for your hard work and devotion .
Best ,
Jonny T
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING RUMBLE!!! I was sitting like "imagine if she played that".
I loved the Link Wray ! Great job, I could watch you all day !
A good reparation/restoration of a tube amplifier, a calm female voice while soldering with fire nails, is a kind of art. Very good video👍
Hi young lady. I am a 66 year old tech working on rf equipment all my life. I would like to say that your work is very clean. Thanks for the fun videos.
What's amazing besides your obvious skill is the fact that even with You Tube compressing the heck out of the audio, the warmth of that amp comes through like a thick, fuzzy blanket on a cold day. It just sounds gorgeous! Excellent work! You provide such a rare and needed service to classic audio lovers everywhere!
I spent half an hour learning about amp repair and then was treated to your renditions of Grant Green and Link Wray!? Fabulous! Love your work!
I would like to take this opportunity to compliment you and your mentor for doing such a great job. Its refreshing to hear a younger person speak and explain why circuitry is being configured the correct way. I'm a professional electronic technician and I can quickly differentiate between someone that knows their stuff and someone that is just repeating the words they were taught. Please keep up the good work and making great videos. You are unique and should be very successful in what you do as you have what it takes to really understand what needs to be done.
Very neat work, I use to be an old tube jockey, your work is very impressive, great too see a young lady carrying on an old tradition ! Enjoyed the video.
I’m a shade tree amp builder / player. Love your systematic method of bringing these old amps back to there former glory. It’s easier to build one, then fix one sometimes. Kudos!
That is crazy how quiet that amp eventually got. Excellent video! I don't know why, but it's almost therapeutic watching you solder, you're so solid. That entire room would smell like burned insulation if I was attempting any of those tight reaches. I think you could solder around corners if you so desired.
My Silverton 1482 is in a new cabinet, and I constantly leave it on as it's so quiet.
Do wop doobie do wop. Nice soldering. You brought an old one back to life. Too cool
That amp sounds like a David Lynch film.
Best coment ever
that remember me when I started learning electronics in 1973...tubes,relays, no printed circuits,hand soldering....its fun to see a nice girl with your knowledge ! , dont give up ! the world need more persons like you !
Nice old amp! I hope the owner can get it into some version of its original cabinet so it can be played out again.
Good job rearranging the fuse and switch. In the end the amp performed well, but here are some suggestions:
The safety ground (green earth wire) should be attached using a dedicated bolt, as requirement for new equipment. Transformer bolts can loosen over time.
The safety ground lead should be left long enough so that it will be the last thing to break free if the power cable is pulled out of the chassis.
The best place to ground the first filter (reservoir cap) is at the same point where the power transformer’s high-voltage center tap (or the bridge rectifier) is grounded. That minimizes the chance of 120Hz buzz getting into the audio by keeping the return from high-current charging pulses off the chassis.
Stabilizing large electrolytics by attaching them to the chassis with silicone is a good idea to prevent lead breakage, but they should be located away from heat sources to maximize service life. The power transformer, output tubes, and output tube cathode resistors are things to keep them away from.
TH-cam recommended this video because it knows I'm into tube radios and such. I am a very picky radio restorer, and would not agree with the workmanship or practices of a lot of TH-camrs here. You checked several boxes including switching the hot to the switched and fused side (paying attention to AC safety), completely removing the old caps instead of the lazier "clip and J-hook" method). You are one of very few people I would trust to work on any of my gear including my favorite guitar amp, if I played guitar and had a tube amp that was my favorite! (My instrument of choice is the turntable!) I'm glad to see younger people with an interest in this older technology, and I guess it's thanks to musicians who still appreciate vacuum tubes.
Forty years of experience in repairing and building audio and radio equipment allow me to rate you with AAA. Excellent work!
Amazing what 12 watts could do back in the 1950s. Reflowing the solder in EVERY contact in a 100% point-to-point wiring layout is the definition of a lo or of love!I had the Silvertone 1485, which today has a cult following.
Love how you put it into the historic perspective too. Old old amp.
What a wonderful dramaless restore of an old classic amp was very entertaining and the rumble rendidtion at the end was a bonus.
Colleen is a thoughtful reflective natural teacher.
Thank-you, Colleen, for this very helpful video and for response to my email. 👍🏼 #RockOn
P.S. -love yer nails!
Those knobs look like bakelite. I learned my lesson on having a lighter around bakelite. Lol. You are a wonderful teacher and more. Thank you!
What a heroic effort! Not only showing all the skill and dexterity, but also all the editing that went in to this. Totally worth saving, that is one honey of a tone. Cheers!☘
Hi Colleen,
Mark from Australia here. I love how everything is so simple. 3 pairs of hand tools, solder sucker, Weller iron and a great set of finger nails!. No walls full of cro's, signal generators and power supplies. A nice homely setting in a quiet environment that is still very productive.
So satisfying to watch.
This is such great unintentional ASMR. Your voice paired with the sounds of snipping and placing down tools is just fantastic. Educational too!
Thank you for this. The amp sounded great at the end.
Check out twoodfrd. He's a Canadian luthier and he also has an incredibly calming voice
Wrist watch revival is another jem, I don't care about watches but I've watched hours of that guy take apart watches and put them back together
I love how you appreciate small details and classic design from a bygone era. I love old classic stuff as well.
Link Wray was a great choice for this amp. Nice job.
Damn, that was some spot-on Link Wray! Such a beautiful tone.
Idle Moments by Grant Green was a surprise treat! One of my favourite songs and albums of his. I love the care, attention and historical perspective you’ve packed into this video. Your nails look awesome btw.
and Link Wray's "Rumble" sounded fantastic too!
I worked 34 years in communications and you're the best I've ever seen. Accurate and precise and very patient. I'm glad I found your channel.
Aluminum chassis means it was built by Danelectro (early Silvertones with steel chassis were built by Valco). Watch out for riveted chassis grounds that have often oxidized or worked loose over the years. The green Sangamo caps are almost always leaky (electrically).
Sangamo caps are good enough for that thing
I have the same amp and all of my coupling caps were leaky. I just recapped the whole thing. Replaced the old carbon resistors in the front end to quiet that down as well. I've found several old Valcos use pretty cheap resistors that hiss and pop when warm.
@@cheezhead6007 What does that mean?! I have rebuilt some Danos and Silvertone Danos and find that good 'un is right. The Sangamo caps do not hold up well. Not only do they leak DC but they also drift way off spec. I just finished a Dano/Silvertone and had to replace every cap in the amp. Now sounds great - Sangamos were not "good enough."
Whats better than watching a good tech go through a classic amp? Watching one with badass nails do it👍
It is an absolute pleasure watching you work. You always leave me in awe of how effortless you make it appear when I know that's far from reality. On a separate note, if you re-order T-Shirts, please let us know? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to purchase one!! Please keep up the great work and the Great Videos!!!
Thank you! I have a feeling that’s in the cards for the future :)
@@FazioElectric Also waiting for the next batch of shirts! Great video as always,
@@FazioElectric I’d buy a t-shirt too
@@FazioElectric I just joined today and would love to see you assemble a tube amp from the start.
I LOVE Silvertones! 1484 was my first tube amp! With a fuzz face, it was an absolute monster in my garage band in the mid 2000's. These really old ones have THE BEST tremolo, to my ears... Maybe second only to Magnatones. Keep up the fantastic quality work! I'm watching your TH-cams like binging a TV show. I'm taking notes on how to solder cleanly. My joints are a mess.
Nice nails for amp tech Coleen - mine are always frayed and broken.
If you want to be thorough, you would want to replace .5 200VDC wax wad cap as well. There's excellent video on Mister Carlson's lab channel why paper caps go bad with time.
Aslo, check that these old Tropical caps don't leak DC through - if tremolo caps went bad, coupling might be on the way.
Best of luck.
Yeah, paper caps are ticking time bombs of trouble. If the rest go bad the amp will start burning up tubes.
You are so natural at it. Buster was fantastic!
Cool stuff, thanks for the video! Shout-out to the camera person and editing in this video. Very good work!!
Hello Colleen how are you hope you're doing fine. I'm 58 years old and been a TV repairman for 37 years. Back then I had to have a Radio TV licence. I studied at VoTech in Shreveport Louisiana and still at it today and sometimes I like to repair tube circuits. Sometimes a customer brings me an old black and white TV from the 1950s and tube circuits work great when all those old leaky paper in oil bumblebees capacitors get replaced with new plastic film capacitors but I don't believe it when a musician tells me that paper in oil sounds better untill I saw a comparison video on TH-cam with different types of capacitors that are the same value and I was amazed. The difference is subtle and I did notice that the paper in oil ones did have a more pleasant treble. The comparison was done in the guitar but not the amp and I know that an old leaky capacitor will damage output tubes, transformers..etc. they make new reproduction paper in oil but maybe the reason the sound is different is because high frequency like treble is easily affected by the SIZE of the capacitor that passes the signal. The new ones are much smaller than the old ones and that's the only thing I can think of so I have an Idea: I wonder what an old vintage amp would sound like if the old paper in oil is wired in series with a new capacitor. The new capacitor will block the DC to protect the output tubes and the old one will shape the tone. The new capacitor will have to be a large enough value to pass the entire audio spectrum as not to color the sound such value like a 0.47uf and all the tone shaping will be the old 0.02uf
Que raridade é ver uma mulher técnica em eletrônica! Voçê é um diamante!! 👏👏👏👏👏
That crackling is the amp sucking in the magic smoke from the surrounding atmosphere. Don't mess!
Heeeeeey, long time, no see :). I love your channel - amp/pedal/synth girls of the world, unite!
Lovely amp on the outside, but it could surely use some redesign when it comes to ground connections. Depending on the chassis layout, I choose bus or star grounding. For the latter I use a thick copper wire (e.g. 4mm²) grounded close to the input jack, going all the way to the power supply. The wire between the rectifier bridge (or secondary C.T.) and the filter cap is "dirty", should be reasonably heavy and nothing else can connect to it.
I always use some kind of strain relief if going for a hardwired power cord; heatshrink for soldered connections on fuse ockets and switches, and whenever a wire goes out of the transformer and I need to splice it, I use a terminal strip or a DPDT power switch.
I really love that you know your thing and talk about amps and repairs with competence and confidence. Uncle Doug (and probably Mr Carlson too, as I see his school of fuse-before-switch) has taught you well. And you have nice nails :) I sometimes do repairs and build stuff with painted nails, but it's kinda tricky...
Glad to see you uploading again, Coleen!
That’s is a rad amp and rad video! Also, I really dig the nails 😉
Came here from a “Unintentional ASMR” channel and have already watched a few of this ladies videos. Her voice is very relaxing for my European ears. I had no interest in amps but have taken away some tips and tricks simply by listening.
Great work as always. I noticed that the two cathode bypass caps that you replaced were actually different values in the amp than were indicated on the schematic. (10uF vs 25uF) Props on going with what was in the amp, imho. Thanks for sharing and great touch on the demos.
Did you catch the El Pato shrink wrap container. She knows what’s up.
Nada es más hermoso que un amplificador valvular lo único malo de verlo es que no se puede transmitir la sensación de calor! Muchas gracias por compartir señora
Those are some badass fingernails! 👍
Hot rod.
Nice touch.👍🥃
I can't believe there aren't more comments about them, they are so cool!
just found your channel and im stoked what a treasure much like yourself never apologize for a messy bench its the hallmark of a genius !
That's a nice size amp, the turret boards seem to make for easier service work than busy point to point.
These were built cheaply and by the thousands. Valco, Magna, Danelectro, and dozens of other little amp makers in LA cranked these low-powered amps out with point to point from the 40's through the 60's, affordable to lots of entry players. Hi-fi amps of the day used turret boards and all the fancy stuff, but the steel and electric guitar was seen as a "craze", so getting the product out was the most important thing.
@@87mini I searched up a schematic for the 1333 and found one courtesy of Sears.
Nice, glad to see another video. It's been awhile.
Dang, I’m blown away by how far this restoration goes.
Well done madam. Congratulations and we are all thankful for any videos here
Great work as always!! Love the fingernails- much prettier than Uncle Doug’s 😁
I just scored an old Vega Commander made in ‘46, so I’m going to need to do pretty much the same.
FYI. Uncle Doug rapes a lot of amps. He changes out transformers in really rare amps, instead of having them re wound. He is clueless
@@johnsmith-bk4ps Rubbish .
@@johnsmith-bk4ps I'm not sure I've seen Uncle Doug change out a transformer unless it was fried. As a part time tech myself, having transformers rewound is costly. Getting the correct replacement makes no discernable difference to the sound.
@@johnsmith-bk4ps BS, dude. His customers have to pay for it, and please tell me how new windings around an old iron core is any different from a quality new Canadian or American transformer. There's no magic in a transformer. Pickups, yes, transformers, if you use the same gauge wire and the same core design, the output is the same. Any artifact of early construction technology is lost in the rewind.
There is a clueless one in the room, and it ain't Uncle Doug.
@@87mini you can get it rewound for the same money. You are clueless about vintage. Changed transformer is a dealbreaker to collectors so why do it when you can repair and sound just as good. Uncle Doug is not the guy to take a rare vintage amp too.
I do lots of electronic work myself and have even designed and built two tube amplifiers. I just stumbled across your site and love this. Just seeing a woman who not only likes electronics but does such a great job is pure awesomeness. Wish I'd have known about your channel before. I am subscribed now. Keep up the killer work and helping these old classics see even more life out gigging. Love the channel.
Awesome to see a girl into electronic repair. I started repairing tube radios and like equipment when I was in 5th grade. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's getting harder to find like equipment. Keep it up, great work.
Nice bit of Rumble at the end there 👌🏼
Good luck with your travels and in finding a new spot.
I saw a tehnician(?) woman that know what to do.such a skilled person.thank you for uploading this video.
Colleen, you are very good at your profession. And so adorable as well. Thanks
love the killer flamed nails!
I love watching yr. work. You seem so confident & smooth + the nails!!
WOOOOOWWWW from today this is my favorite channel, forever!
Heard about this channel on a know your gear pod cast . Said this was a top notch channel . I agree .
Link Wray Rules! Saw him perrform. what a legend..
You do a really really great job showing and explaining it all
a video like this one is enough to fall straight in love with u.
great to see a young lady into electronics
Really a meticulous and careful work. I love the look of your little dog, he has a wise soul as a true bodhisattva. Ciao !
Nice work!! You can hear the love mojo put in comin' back out!!!
Really cool to see a woman doing old school tube type stuff 👍👍💯⁉️
You're really good at this Colleen.
Great restoration of a fine old amp! Just loved the way you and it bashed out the rumble at the end; magic!!!
A female Uncle Doug?.... thankyou TH-cam algorithms.
Huge fan of amps .Many stacked up in working condition....n....hot rod too ....nice flame work on nail art
Hi from Portugal. Thanks for showing your work. Have a nice day.
Greetings from Australia. For me this is perfect. Old valve amplifiers. Demystifying with meticulous skills
27:53: Idle Moments!!!
Absolutely awesome.
I love it. I used to build custom tube amplifiers back in the early to mid late 70s both HiFi and guitar amps. Reminds me of when I was young delving into that old technology. You do your repairs very like I used to approach them. I also used to work on my friends amps. This was back when I was 16 and a bit more wild than I am now. I am a working electrical engineer designing integrated circuits. I would like to retire soon and delve back into my old passion.
Speed and depth! I have a 1979 POOvey "Classic 212" w trem depth and 'rate' and I frkn LOVE it.
Your channel just randomly popped up. I have a Silvertone 1484 that was given to me in horrible shape. The case and amp cleaned up nicely. It was a fun rebuild.
Girl, that was the best half hour of my life spent looking at your work.
Nice Link Wray riff at the end. I really enjoyed this.
Those old amps (Silvertones, Kay, Montgomery Wards, etc) always had the most beautiful designs and tones. Great video. I'm digging into a 5c1 with a 6x5 rectifier today and now know how to add a 3 prong thanks to your beautiful self.
nice flame job, props on all the work without chipping.
Love learning from your videos! Digging the flamed nails too.
23:10 it's amazing to think electronics came with board diagrams for easy repair. What different times. Love your videos.
I dig the history lesson. I do this with my band when we add new cover tunes...helps us understand the original vibe of the tune when it came out. Love the rebuild too! Thanks!
Hi Colleen, just stumbled onto your channel...
Nice job on the Amp. It's great to see young people taking up the lost art of troubleshooting and fixing tube equipment...
Yeah, those nasty electrolytic caps always need to be replaced, no question...
The static noise may also come from fractured resistors. Poking around with a swizzle stick will help find physical defects..
Have fun...!!
Nails look cool. Very thorough
I enjoyed seeing the heat gun on its maiden voyage.
Yes gorgeous amplifier and knobs! I love large octal tubes cool 6SC7 and 6SN7 tubes..Neat the way the power transformer is mounted mostly under the chassis..I think 6V6 tube has the most wonderful rich harmonic ring to them..., not only for guitar but for music....I had my DVD/VCR hooked up to a Bell and Howell reel to reel tape machine with a 6V6 output tube with speaker out connected to a large hifi speaker and the sound is unbelievable( movie soundtracks)...
I don't speek english... but I can only say : it is very, very good work ! Congratulation !
WOW you know your stuff and do fantastic work paying attention to every detail you can work on my 51 Valco lol 😂 Thanks Jim
Gotta love any amp that uses a 6SJ7. Thanks, Colleen, for the instructive and informative series of videos on heritage amp restoration. Your videos have helped me make a vintage '54 Champ Amp into a safe, cool-running and quiet tone meister.
your videos give me peace of mind! thanks
You are a really excellent technician at modifying circuits of electronic components early and modern. I enjoyed your video.
Your videos are so soothing I keep falling asleep. That’s a good thing. They’re very relaxing.
You made me think of my old Silvertone which sits collecting dust...used it back in my high school days in 1964. My cabinet and amp are still working and in original condition...wish I could say the same. :)