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
My name is Dan, and I own MyTubeAudio, LLC, a small West Michigan service that offers exclusively While You Wait repair for tube-based equipment. I have been building and servicing tube amps for over 30 years. During the day I am a mild-mannered Senior EMC Test Engineer for Gentex Corp, where I get to play with seriously good RF equipment, design and build test setups, make antennas and devise new applications for test and measurement equipment. At night I'm either repairing gear, building something new or playing guitar, which is one of my serious passions. I also love audio production, playing out live, hold an Extra-Class FCC License and have a family and two great cats. Since 1989, when I stopped watching television altogether, I have found I can get a lot more done in life.
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 […]
