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Gibson was known for changing their amps fairly often. I recently purchased a used mid 60s gibson explorer amp ga15rvt. Three of the input jacks have a 47k tied to them as a group and one jack with a 33k. I did find one on line that has no voltages for the power supply taps, or the caps and resistors. Ga20rvt musical instrument amplifier pdf manual download. May 30, 2003 ive restored and sold several of the ga 20rvt minuteman amps and currently own one as well.
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I have aquired a gibson g80 chassis and a schematic. Normally folded and mailed in ordinary business envelope. I had always thought of gibson amps as pretty dark sounding and fender as the bright ones. This is a very simple circuit that uses a 12au7 valve, running at a low voltage. Gibson ga20rvt minuteman vintage tube guitar amplifier.
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