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Nice playing man

thanks for the honest review. seems that unless you're into the building aspect, a used point to point reissue seems to be worth the price to save time.

V2 is a bit of flub

Thinking about starting with a 5E3?

The sound of this guitar is more similar to Gibson does not have Gretsch sound, i prefer original pick up

I started with a 5f1. Built another one a few years later with a 10 inche speaker, beefier trannies, and a bunch of mods. That's probably my favorite amp of all time. It's just so damn good. It'll take 6L6s if I wanted to play with a drummer, but I like the 6v6 better. I've since built a highly modded 5e3 and mildly modded AB763 Deluxe. Fender amps are the best.

Going through the same thing right now... building a British 800. But absolutely NO instructions... just a picture and schematic. Even better, the PT has 2 pairs of the same color wires. I had to look up their PT and get the schematic of that. I'm working with Mojo right now with voltages that are not even close to their schematics. However, it does play. That being said, I'd love to build a Princeton next.

At the 3 min mark going on for about 30 seconds was my favorite sound, great playing 👏🏾👏🏾 ...what gauge are those strings?

Soulful playing🙏🏼

My first build was the Mojotone 5E3 clone and had no issues putting it together. I purchased the cabinet and speaker from other vendors and when it was completed I had an amazing guitar amplifier. This was 5 years ago and it still looks and sounds great. Currently I'm building the Princeton Reverb clone and the wiring diagram is giving me fits. I wish the instruction manual and diagram were more clear. You shouldn't have to guess where the connections are being made. I'm so frustrated the project is in a corner collecting dust until I find clearer resources to guide my progress.

Try 12 or 18V for higher headroom or if you wanna mod change the 100k resistor to 1K for less gain like standard king of tone.

it has a dip switch inside for the low mid bump. was it on when you tried it? cheers

Wasn’t an Orange Gretsch 6120 Pete Townshend’s secret weapon on Who’s Next?

Version 1 keeps it's clarity better. V 2 has more mids. Both good. Maybe V2 has too much low end flubber?

Hey great tones! But how did you find one for $100? Everywhere I look it's well over $250

Great information and comparison. Thanks for sharing. To my ears the Lollar’s offer something different but lost most of the Gretsch sound.

This is really helpful! Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and walk through some great points and observations in such detail. Ive been looking for a review like this since their products caught my eye. Plenty to consider, and if I do take the plunge, this video will be hugely helpful with my approach. Ps. Lego style pictures would be great

Great tone from my phone...not bad dude

That sig seven is absolutely beautiful! Love the Thrice riffs! Not a fan of the metal settings on the iridium though it’s not sounding “horrible”. Great playing!

A mojo DMBL, The Dude and soon a personal Bombastortion pedal from Tim himself. Love the DMBL for edgy cleans and fat blues tones. The dude for smooth overdrive jazz and rock the the Bombastortion for when I take no prisoners and make it scream. All 3 pedal or best for what they do, for me that is

Thanks a lot for this video. Saved me 1,000 bucks 😂

Beautiful sound. Great job on Silent Night.

Hi, nice guitar, I have one too, I wanted to know what strings you put together because I also have flatwounds but I can't do much bending, especially with the G

Whenever I feel like I spent too much on my Lollars, or just need a laugh, I listen to sound clips of Throbaks, and then look at the price tag on them. I have not found a single clip of the Throbaks *not* sounding dark, muddy, and lacking detail. Different strokes as they say. Though the joke is kind of on me, because now I want a set of Lollartrons. The Collings reminds me of a LP Jr. Special with dice for knobs that I had on long-term loan. Special indeed.

Grand. Thank you.

Love the sound of gretsch guitars Twangy for country rock

My dad is an electrical engineer too and he worked in television for 30 years! He has helped me make a couple of mojotone amps and he convinced me that I can make my own PR from a kit instead of buy a reissue.

Great video! This was the first amp I built as well and after building a number of others, I’d say that there are definitely easier ones to dip your toes into the building water with (like the 5F1 Tweed Champ). The Princeton Reverb is quite a bit more complicated, especially with the reverb and tremolo effects, which add additional stages, tubes, and components. In general, spring reverb circuits in these amps are known to be more noisy. I had to go to extra lengths to keep the noise floor on the reverb circuit as quiet as possible. Mine also didn’t make a sound the first time I turned it on. However, having built other amps, that’s not necessarily uncommon and if you delve into a project like this, be ready to really study and learn troubleshooting skills. Learn how to follow the signal path, etc so you can tactfully trace the signal through the amp and where it stops (or isn’t right). Learn how to read a schematic and compare the schematic with your actual wiring before turning it all on. One great piece of advice I saw on one of the amp forums is to print a black and white schematic and/or layout and then color/highlight it as you check against your wired amp. RobRobinette.com has a LOT of excellent information about tube amps in general and specifically some mods you can do to the Princeton Reverb circuit. If you are new to doing this, a lot of it may not really make sense until you experience it first hand and learn (after making a few mistakes in my case). In the end, you’ve got an excellent amp and it sounds great!

Is there any way you can share your settings for all of the Iridium sounds?

No.98 here. I love it. Definitely a keeper.

I’ve got #97 and this thing fucking rips, I have no need for another overdrive this is it.

It’s warm !!!:) 👍👍👍

Thats a great sounding drive... nice playing too. +1

I hope this b.s.ruins lollar.900$ for a stinking common overdrive...shameful.and your pups are way overrated.

Man, that sounds awesome!! It was cool to see how it sounded with the different guitars. Especially that baritone!

Awesome demo! Killer sound with the baritone. I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of these and I've been loving it. As you mentioned, that clarity of tone across the range is a real treat with this. Thanks for posting! Just subscribed.

Sounds so good!

I just discovered gretsch after a lifetime of metal playing. What pickups did you switch to. Its sounds fantastic.

Whats the first song?

I built the StewMac version of the 65 Princeton this summer and I think it may be a rebranded version of the Monotone kit, I took my time and it probably took me two months to get it done. The StewMac instructions were very good but like you I made several mistakes along the way that I found when rechecking my work. I was also missing a capacitor that they kindly sent me. I was pretty nervous when I began the circuit tests after completing the build but everything checked out and it worked the first time I turned it on (I honestly wasn't expecting that). Like yours, I found the reverb to be really intense at higher settings and the tremolo was a bit weak. Thanks to Uncle Doug and Psionic Audio videos I found suggestions for improving the tremolo and also a use for the cosmetic only ground switch. Adding additional .02 micro Farad capacitors in parallel with the .01 micro Farad caps in the tremolo circuit and a 1 M ohm resistor in parallel with the existing 1 M ohm resistor at the output of the tremolo circuit slowed down the speed and increased the intensity and it's perfect for me now. I also put the ground switch to use as a switchable negative feedback control to make the amp more versatile. I absolutely love this amp!! Good luck with yours!

I just had all frets replaced on my Gretsch G5420/LH (lefty) the guitar has not played well since I bought it 10 plus years ago. I've always preferred light gauge strings now I'm advice that I may need to go with heavier gauge to avoid some of the buzzing and that archtop guitars play better, my question is this fact? does anyone have an opinion on this? I love this guitar I wish I could be enjoying it like my D'angelico every note on, every fret rings clean like a bell.

Iridium can do high gain. It just can't do "modern" high gain.

Cool video and I agree, it’s a pain to work from ‘a picture’ and yes, these kits do cut corners on some components. I’ve just finished a TAD kit. Doesn’t come with a manual at all, only a schematic and diagram. So I downloaded Mojotone’s and Stewmac’s instructions and the 60s wiring diagram. Interestingly all were slightly different. Eg. Stokes mod, screen grid resistors, pot tapers, ground schemes… I used the 60s schematic and checked everything following the schematic before soldering. Huge learning curve, but in the end: a successful build. I did add grid stoppers, bias trimpot, used the correct pot tapers, another on/off switch, another reverb cable… Fun project, but next time I’ll order parts to my taste instead of a kit. Tremelo: check your bias. Biasing a bit colder will emphasise the trem. You can also replace a resistor and a cap to improve depth and slow down speed. Rob Robinette’s website has some instructions. Reverb noise: rca jacks on the reverb tank facing the front side of the cab should have the lowest noise.

That julian lage playing was nice 👍👍

Are you rocking a Norseman bro?!

It's a great pedal but a learning curve. Not for overdrive It's for tang into ambient and very transparent

A Timmy does it even better 🎉

Vi is tighter brighter cleaner clearer less mud

I really like this video, I also build tube amps