Welcome to MyTubeAudio. A truly different kind of repair shop. TRANSPARENT! [Updated May 2021] MyTubeAudio, LLC., is a West Michigan-based company that offers “While You Wait” [temporarily video-conference-based] service for tube amplifiers of most any make and most any vintage. While historically “Live” with the owner in attendance, I’m again open and making repairs with […]
Author: danpaw
2016 – The New Year!
Thanks for visiting MyTubeAudio. 2016 is off to a great start already! The Business – It’s been a busy couple of years – the daughters are growing like weeds, my career changed paths again, and the amps keep coming. About the only part of my life that feels consistent is the repairs. For a few […]
Projects in Pictures – 2014
Here is a random collection of photos from 2014 work. I’ve been terribly busy, 2 bands, engineering day job, family (2 young girls + wife!) and tube work… lots of it.I don’t have much time to post here but I think I can upload a bunch of new pix and call it good for now! […]
Epiphone Electra needs a heart transplant
This Epiphone had an issue with a bad photocell/lamp combination – a special optocoupler that is no longer available – and so no tremolo. I managed to retrofit a new lamp into the original assembly and only had to make sure the current driving it was within spec and still performed well in the tremolo […]
SRV Strat Teardown
Sometimes a guitar just needs to be blown apart, gone thru end-to-end, everything cleaned and lubed and tightened, and anything replaced that’s not up to snuff. Then you do a complete setup from scratch knowing that there are no hidden demons. Such was the case with this SRV strat.. Also of note here is the new […]
Happy New Year 2014 from MyTubeAudio, LLC
Well, I have not posted here in a very very long time. A few changes have happened. We have daughters, 3 and 5, which take a lot of our time. That’s one reason, another is just the speed of life. So much to do, so much remains undone each day. I have acquired the http://www.mytubeaudio.com […]
An Ampeg doesn’t hit bottom…
Ampeg B15S – the Portaflex. This amp has a history, most of which I know nothing about. But this is one of those stories that makes legends, eventually. It goes like this… it used to live at a Theater (as in stage play theater..) for probably the major portion of it’s life, and one day […]
Photo Gallery II – More projects
Over the last year or two I have uploaded scads of photos of past repairs, and I keep promising myself to make a page or two write-up on each. Fast-forward many months and only a few have gotten done. That said, I think for now the best idea would be to just get the […]
Echoes from the past – the Silvertone Twin Twelve Reverb Project
Recently a blast from the past came across the workbench… the venerable (Sears) Silvertone Twin Twelve. This was the classic 2 x 12 two-channel amplifier that occupied young musician’s Christmas lists for many many years. I myself had one of these when I was about 15 – I liked the volume, (30 watts) and the […]
Recapping the Twin
Fenders are robust, but like anything else they need occasional maintenance. Her are a few photos of a silverface Twin Reverb I recently recapped. I often take a moment to remove all the knobs and give the face a moist cleaning with a soft cloth. Most customers won’t notice, but we all know a clean […]