The 67th installment of the Truth About Vintage Amps! TAVA Discounts: Use the discount code THETRUTH10 to save 10% off your order from Amplified Parts between now and April 15, 2021.  Use the discount code TRUTHV150FF to save $15 off Caddis readers between now and April 30, 2021.  Highlights: Capacitor talk (leaking and otherwise), fancy square dance rigs, more reverb taming and a special guest from the craft beer industry! Some of the topics discussed this week:  :29 Colleen Fazio's YouTube channel (YouTube link; listen to Colleen on TAVA 44) :40 Recommended amp tech in Seattle: Jesse at Acmeverb.com 3:07 This week's sponsors: Grez Guitars, Amplified Parts, Caddis  6:12 Taming the reverb in a combo amp with a tone circuit, redux 10:39 The '68 Custom Line from Fender 16:14 Vintage capacitors in Fenders: Myths and realities 20:26 What to do with leaky caps that sound great? 25:24 Replacing electrolytic capacitors with exact value matches or close enough? Plus: Eric Johnson's pilot lamp hack returns! 31:08 Skip's "George Thorogood" story 35:05 Skip finds a Red Foley cowboy / stencil guitar 36:55 Can too much boost hurt your amp? 39:39 Special guest: Marty from the Oregon Coast (Martin Bills, Director of Brewing Operations, Pelican Brewing!): Everybody's Brewing, the Mini Wall of Sound, the actual Wall of Sound, McIntosh Amps, Jerry Garcia's onboard buffered effects loop (Wolf Guitar), Deluxe Reverbs with 6L6s, gumbo explorations 1:13:00 Ampeg B-15/B-12 reliability, blackened cabbage 1:18:43 Putting a 6SL7 tube in a Gibson BR-9 1:22:35 Taming the "Traynor tang" on a YGM-3 1:26:04 The two-amps-in-one Hilton HP-95 1:28:56 Turning a low-watt amp into a harp amp, Kalamazoo Model 1s 1:31:48 What's going on with the Geloso G-18R; 6N7 tubes (Note: We'll walk through this schematic on our next episode) 1:35:16 Test equipment for grabs: a Ballantine volt meter; a Hickok 532 tube tester Support the show as a TAVA Patreon patron and get bonus episodes, in-depth articles on amp circuitry and other surprises. Have a topic for a future episode or a beer question for Marty? Email or send us a voice memo to: podcast@fretboardjournal.com or leave us a voicemail or text at 509-557-0848.