Did I ever get this this vintage delay unit working? Last time I was able to pass a wet signal on the long delay channel, but no dry signal. Watch and find out!
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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome back to, uh, adventures and Emily is in over her head and, uh, purchasing this telephone oil can delay. Well, maybe I did. Maybe I did, but you know what? Oh, do you hear that
[00:00:26] in case you didn’t hear it? Let me turn it up.
[00:00:37] Now there’s dry signal in case you didn’t see part one, please watch that. But the gist of it is I paid $250 for a Tel raid for Intel re fender echo verb that, uh, I was sold as non-function. I knew that I’d only worked at tilted at an odd angle. I was told by Greg at recovery effects that probably just had too much oil in it.
[00:01:04] And let me tell you, Greg was right. And then, uh, when I plugged that in, I had no dry signal and, uh, I was very confused. I’m like, normally you normally will have the opposite problem. I have no what signal? Uh, so what I figured out was there’s a trim pot on the back. And, uh, I’ll show you that, uh, at the end of this video, but let’s, let’s hear the sounds.
[00:01:33] I want to play it for you. It clean through the, just completely clean channel of my tone master super reverb here with the S and 57. So, uh, let’s
[00:01:49] nice. So I have the, uh, The echo volume at about two right now.
[00:02:04] And, uh, the reverberations are about three and a half out. I never got the short delay working. And in fact, the short delay kind of works less right now. It’s a basically. No signal passing. I think I kind of almost prefer that way.
[00:02:39] All right.
[00:02:47] Let’s turn up that echo.
[00:03:28] You don’t have to believe me. I don’t really care.
[00:03:42] Let’s run up even higher to eight. Maybe nine o’clock let’s just go tonight.
[00:04:41] all right now, let’s listen to, uh, it all the way up. Never done this.
[00:05:00] I’ll tell you it back down to five.
[00:05:05] Let’s turn the reverberations up to five.
[00:05:15] You can hear that kind of teetering almost on self oscillation, but not quite
[00:05:50] alright, turn out tonight and see what it does.
[00:07:03] So for the dramatic pause,
[00:08:01] Uh,
[00:08:24] and just to show you the short delay.
[00:08:30] Actually works a little bit less than, than before, before I felt like it was kind of like, oh, trying to do something. And now it’s just like, thanks for noticing. So yeah. That’s um, that’s, uh, that’s it clean? Let’s not put it through the Benson phys. I have basically just to realize it, the impedance down all the way in the gain up all the way.
[00:08:54] So, you know, Real nice.
[00:09:01] both of these dials, the, uh, echo volume and duration in the middle, going over to long delay.
[00:09:52] the rhythm circuit. That’s why that sounded a little bit on the dark side. I’m not, I’m not refilming lists. You can live with it.
[00:10:13] I like the rhythm circuit. I’m not refilling it, not refilling it.
[00:10:32] I was playing with.
[00:11:14] More reverberation.
[00:13:02] let’s do the impedance up and keep the gain up.
[00:13:11] is about.
[00:13:32] oh, I forgot to mention this is the oldest Castille’s signature Jazzmaster.
[00:13:43] Alright. Alright. Alright. Alright. I gotta just stop having so much fun with year. That’s a real problem. Uh, stay tuned, uh, at the arrest, stay tuned. I’m going to actually take this thing back into my work area and, or actually, you know what, I’m just going to show you the back of this thing. So you can see exactly what I’m talking about, uh, as far as trim pots go.
[00:14:10] So, uh, stay tuned for that. All right. So first we’re going to take the back off of this thing. Very nice. All right. So this is not plugged in, so do not freak out at all. So, uh, let us see. There is something in there that says direct level signal that I had sent home this before. That’s the trim pot that adjusted direct level signal.
[00:14:35] It had been all the way down, I assume. So that the tech who had been working on it previously, uh, could, you know, hear if it worked or not. So I, you know, not going to say, think about the tech. There are also two other trumpets. And there, uh, let me find my headlamp really quickly so I can get some light shining on there.
[00:15:00] I recommend investing in a headlamp. This is my headlamp. I love it a lot. So you can see there are two other trim pots. The one on the left appears to be the short, the one on the right appears to be the law. I’m not a hundred percent sure what those control they had been, both turned all the way to the right.
[00:15:21] So, uh, I kinda put them in the middle and I liked the way they sound. So that’s a look at the inside again, that direct level there, sir. Uh, get closer. Look at that, that trim pot controlled the what dry mix. And I was really happy to find that. Big, thank you to the YouTube subscriber slash viewer who suggested that?
[00:15:51] All right. All right. Well, there you have it. That was a, an adventure with, uh, getting this thing about as working as I think I’m capable of getting it to work. Uh, I know that there’s obviously an issue with a short delay. I’ve measured with my multimeter, every capacitor and resistor in there. Uh, I think there might be some things in there that aren’t quite working.
[00:16:19] Uh, I it’s, it’s out of my pay grade. It’s out of my wheelhouse. Uh, I think, I suppose working as it’s going to be, uh, w things that I think should be done, uh, I think it’s, it’s not grounded. It’s not three prong wire. I would not want to continue to use this without a three-prong wire, uh, is a pretty sick slap back.
[00:16:42] I don’t think that. Getting electrocuted over. Uh, I’ve been told by some people that, uh, you shouldn’t do three prong wire on it. And I think that’s kind of madness. I think you should upgrade it for safety. Cool. Sounds aren’t worth. But then Joel electrocution, that’s, shouldn’t be controversial. My take on it.
[00:17:09] So yeah, I mean, I’m glad, I’m glad to pick this up. I’m glad it hasn’t experimentation with it. Uh, and, uh, I’m, I’m pretty, pretty happy and proud of, uh, taking myself or taking a risk and feeling like I could get this working and in some capacity, uh, I’m actually trading it back to the person I bought it from.
[00:17:37] For a little bit higher value because that guitar that I was playing a minute ago, it’s from the same person. And, um, so I’m getting a little bit of value value back on that guitar. So, uh, I think all in all, it’s a happy story that Elvis Costello jazz master is a bit of a white whale for me. I love Elvis Costello.
[00:17:58] I been wanting that guitar for a long time. I couldn’t afford them when they came out, uh, with a little bit of trade value. Pretty much afford it now. So I’m really happy. I’m really excited. Uh, anyway, this is going kind of heavy. It’s going to create a look like a baby, cause it’s not plugged in. Thanks for watching.
[00:18:20] Thanks for understanding, please like comment, subscribe for more music shenanigans for me, all that stuff. Check us out on patrion.com/get offset. Get off@podcast.com slash. And um, until next time, my name is Emily. Goodbye.
[00:18:41] Is that a good screenshot thumbnail
[00:18:48] later days?