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Topic: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

From  twitter:
http://twitter.com/JBONAMASSA/status/24 … 40/photo/1

Joe, that looks vintage!  I know my Dad had a VM record changer and I believe the whole system was RCA/VM.  The grill, the border (vinyl?), and the legs make me think 1962ish?

Dad's was circa '59.

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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

I saw that too. Very unique packaging. VOM were big back in the 50's and 60's. Most were based on 6V6 output tubes. Nice score Joe!
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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

I found this page,

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showth … p?t=337445

a photo shows it has three speakers, two large ones and a small center speaker. If Joe's is the same model as the one in the thread above...

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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

I found this page,

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showth … p?t=337445

a photo shows it has three speakers, two large ones and a small center speaker. If Joe's is the same model as the one in the thread above...


I don't think it is the same model, but could be minute details that are different, excepting aesthetics. 
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … p;TITLE=27 looks most like it, even down to the legs..Model 27, from 1956


Could be Model 32 from 1962? (if the legs were still the same for later models, or possibly could be the one you linked Nic, with legs, being wooden and stubby compared to what I believe were metal tubes) http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … p;TITLE=32


I fully remember that trademark Big V wedged into the crevice of the M.  Anyone else?!


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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

I worked on a few VOM home audio systems back in the early '70s. It was a good selling brand, fairly high end for the time so there were a few still around. Normal stuff, flat tubes, weak rectifiers. One smoked output transformer I remember because the idiot hooked up 6 speakers. I never saw one like Joe's though. Those feet on Nic's link might be replacements. Those legs were probably single side plated steel and tended to rust out. That's a rare one Joe scored. It looks pristine.
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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

I just wanna hear it - record a sample Joe! smile

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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

Rocket wrote:

I know my Dad had a VM record changer and I believe the whole system was RCA/VM.

Such memories!  My earliest exposure to music was on my dad's pride-and-joy VoM home system.  He fiddled around playing clarinet and saxophone (much the same way I fiddle around with my guitars), so I grew up on a steady diet of his heroes: Pete Fountain (when my dad finally got to see him play live on a visit to New Orleans, he had the same kind of reaction I had when I got to meet Joe), Boots Randolph, the Dukes of Dixieland, Acker Bilk, Al Hirt, Artie Shaw (still one of my own faves), Ace Cannon, etc. The first time I ever heard Elvis Presley was on that stereo, when dad gave mom G.I. Blues one Christmas and she practically wore it out that day...   wink

Ours looked like this:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/6939 … 16b4bb.jpg

...except with a lighter wood finish like this one has:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6793 … 394aac.jpg

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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

Coach305 wrote:
Rocket wrote:

I know my Dad had a VM record changer and I believe the whole system was RCA/VM.

Such memories!  My earliest exposure to music was on my dad's pride-and-joy VoM home system.  He fiddled around playing clarinet and saxophone (much the same way I fiddle around with my guitars), so I grew up on a steady diet of his heroes: Pete Fountain (when my dad finally got to see him play live on a visit to New Orleans, he had the same kind of reaction I had when I got to meet Joe), Boots Randolph, the Dukes of Dixieland, Acker Bilk, Al Hirt, Artie Shaw (still one of my own faves), Ace Cannon, etc. The first time I ever heard Elvis Presley was on that stereo, when dad gave mom G.I. Blues one Christmas and she practically wore it out that day...   wink

Ours looked like this:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/6939 … 16b4bb.jpg

...except with a lighter wood finish like this one has:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6793 … 394aac.jpg

Ah yes! My cousin's house had the same model as you Coach!  Same finish as the first photo, not the white.

I am pretty sure the one Joe pictured is what was called a "satellite" speaker in some circles, it was just extended mono.  But usable as a amp standalone for sure.  Probably had Line/Mic Level Selection too.

Ironically, my first guitar amplifier was a phony!  I didn't have an electric anyway, being the poor son of an underpaid teacher, and with all the paper routes in the hands of teenagers who could "will" their route to a younger brother or cousin, and also competing with a shovel against other kids with their families snow blowers (or father's with plow adapters for the trucks) clearing sidewalks and driveways of (our upstate double dose of hefty) snowstorms, where they all react like firemen to snow storms, taking all the urgent jobs immediately every time!...and only girls (sisters) could baby sit...

I had THIS:
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … ;TITLE=136

I'd take the tape recorder microphone and stick it in the acoustic sound hole and crank the gain up!!! I think the speaker was a 7" oval two-way...it was another extension speaker for their tape recorder, a 7 inch reel 3 3/4 ips (selectable 1 7/8 ips) , STEREO (oh Dad, the experiments I did a la Les Paul!!!), half and / or quarter track (! cool) reel-to-reel, which had the extender amp & speaker as a companion like dis here!:
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … ;TITLE=735
1962 models, now I know why I keyed on '62 look to Joe's.

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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

I wonder if the Voice Of Rock owns a Voice Of Music?

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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

Rocket wrote:
Coach305 wrote:
Rocket wrote:

I know my Dad had a VM record changer and I believe the whole system was RCA/VM.

Such memories!  My earliest exposure to music was on my dad's pride-and-joy VoM home system.  He fiddled around playing clarinet and saxophone (much the same way I fiddle around with my guitars), so I grew up on a steady diet of his heroes: Pete Fountain (when my dad finally got to see him play live on a visit to New Orleans, he had the same kind of reaction I had when I got to meet Joe), Boots Randolph, the Dukes of Dixieland, Acker Bilk, Al Hirt, Artie Shaw (still one of my own faves), Ace Cannon, etc. The first time I ever heard Elvis Presley was on that stereo, when dad gave mom G.I. Blues one Christmas and she practically wore it out that day...   wink

Ours looked like this:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/6939 … 16b4bb.jpg

...except with a lighter wood finish like this one has:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6793 … 394aac.jpg

Ah yes! My cousin's house had the same model as you Coach!  Same finish as the first photo, not the white.

I am pretty sure the one Joe pictured is what was called a "satellite" speaker in some circles, it was just extended mono.  But usable as a amp standalone for sure.  Probably had Line/Mic Level Selection too.

Ironically, my first guitar amplifier was a phony!  I didn't have an electric anyway, being the poor son of an underpaid teacher, and with all the paper routes in the hands of teenagers who could "will" their route to a younger brother or cousin, and also competing with a shovel against other kids with their families snow blowers (or father's with plow adapters for the trucks) clearing sidewalks and driveways of (our upstate double dose of hefty) snowstorms, where they all react like firemen to snow storms, taking all the urgent jobs immediately every time!...and only girls (sisters) could baby sit...

I had THIS:
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … ;TITLE=136

I'd take the tape recorder microphone and stick it in the acoustic sound hole and crank the gain up!!! I think the speaker was a 7" oval two-way...it was another extension speaker for their tape recorder, a 7 inch reel 3 3/4 ips (selectable 1 7/8 ips) , STEREO (oh Dad, the experiments I did a la Les Paul!!!), half and / or quarter track (! cool) reel-to-reel, which had the extender amp & speaker as a companion like dis here!:
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … ;TITLE=735
1962 models, now I know why I keyed on '62 look to Joe's.

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

Thanks for the blast of (cold air) the past Homes! I remember my uncle having one like Joe's.

Willowbrook golf course and Longways should jog your mind a bit! wink

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Spider wrote:
Rocket wrote:
Coach305 wrote:

Such memories!  My earliest exposure to music was on my dad's pride-and-joy VoM home system.  He fiddled around playing clarinet and saxophone (much the same way I fiddle around with my guitars), so I grew up on a steady diet of his heroes: Pete Fountain (when my dad finally got to see him play live on a visit to New Orleans, he had the same kind of reaction I had when I got to meet Joe), Boots Randolph, the Dukes of Dixieland, Acker Bilk, Al Hirt, Artie Shaw (still one of my own faves), Ace Cannon, etc. The first time I ever heard Elvis Presley was on that stereo, when dad gave mom G.I. Blues one Christmas and she practically wore it out that day...   wink

Ours looked like this:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7192/6939 … 16b4bb.jpg

...except with a lighter wood finish like this one has:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6793 … 394aac.jpg

Ah yes! My cousin's house had the same model as you Coach!  Same finish as the first photo, not the white.

I am pretty sure the one Joe pictured is what was called a "satellite" speaker in some circles, it was just extended mono.  But usable as a amp standalone for sure.  Probably had Line/Mic Level Selection too.

Ironically, my first guitar amplifier was a phony!  I didn't have an electric anyway, being the poor son of an underpaid teacher, and with all the paper routes in the hands of teenagers who could "will" their route to a younger brother or cousin, and also competing with a shovel against other kids with their families snow blowers (or father's with plow adapters for the trucks) clearing sidewalks and driveways of (our upstate double dose of hefty) snowstorms, where they all react like firemen to snow storms, taking all the urgent jobs immediately every time!...and only girls (sisters) could baby sit...

I had THIS:
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … ;TITLE=136

I'd take the tape recorder microphone and stick it in the acoustic sound hole and crank the gain up!!! I think the speaker was a 7" oval two-way...it was another extension speaker for their tape recorder, a 7 inch reel 3 3/4 ips (selectable 1 7/8 ips) , STEREO (oh Dad, the experiments I did a la Les Paul!!!), half and / or quarter track (! cool) reel-to-reel, which had the extender amp & speaker as a companion like dis here!:
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … ;TITLE=735
1962 models, now I know why I keyed on '62 look to Joe's.

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

Thanks for the blast of (cold air) the past Homes! I remember my uncle having one like Joe's.

Willowbrook golf course and Longways should jog your mind a bit! wink

Wow this stuff is maybe older then me. It all looks like it could be in the "carousel of progress" at Walt Disney world.

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cindyron wrote:
Spider wrote:
Rocket wrote:

Ah yes! My cousin's house had the same model as you Coach!  Same finish as the first photo, not the white.

I am pretty sure the one Joe pictured is what was called a "satellite" speaker in some circles, it was just extended mono.  But usable as a amp standalone for sure.  Probably had Line/Mic Level Selection too.

Ironically, my first guitar amplifier was a phony!  I didn't have an electric anyway, being the poor son of an underpaid teacher, and with all the paper routes in the hands of teenagers who could "will" their route to a younger brother or cousin, and also competing with a shovel against other kids with their families snow blowers (or father's with plow adapters for the trucks) clearing sidewalks and driveways of (our upstate double dose of hefty) snowstorms, where they all react like firemen to snow storms, taking all the urgent jobs immediately every time!...and only girls (sisters) could baby sit...

I had THIS:
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … ;TITLE=136

I'd take the tape recorder microphone and stick it in the acoustic sound hole and crank the gain up!!! I think the speaker was a 7" oval two-way...it was another extension speaker for their tape recorder, a 7 inch reel 3 3/4 ips (selectable 1 7/8 ips) , STEREO (oh Dad, the experiments I did a la Les Paul!!!), half and / or quarter track (! cool) reel-to-reel, which had the extender amp & speaker as a companion like dis here!:
http://www.thevoiceofmusic.com/popup_pi … ;TITLE=735
1962 models, now I know why I keyed on '62 look to Joe's.

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

Thanks for the blast of (cold air) the past Homes! I remember my uncle having one like Joe's.

Willowbrook golf course and Longways should jog your mind a bit! wink

Wow this stuff is maybe older then me. It all looks like it could be in the "carousel of progress" at Walt Disney world.

could be.....

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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

Rocket wrote:

Ah yes! My cousin's house had the same model as you Coach!  Same finish as the first photo, not the white.

I am pretty sure the one Joe pictured is what was called a "satellite" speaker in some circles, it was just extended mono.

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

We had the "satellite," too, but ours was more square (like a smaller version of the main unit).  My mom used it as an end-table in the living room...   wink

And, of course, a LOT of albums in those days were in mono anyway...

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Re: Joe's Voice of Music Amp

Hey guys! Bobby Getchell from Getchell Amplifiers here. I wanted to dispell some myths/explain some things about this unique and way cool amp that Joe bought!


This amp started out as a Voice of Music model 162 hi-fi extension speaker, which I found in southern Indiana over the summer. It is from 1963, and no VM corp never offered one like this wink It originally had two 8" speakers in it and a 3" tweeter. The legs were on it when I got it, but I don't know if they are original or not. Originally, it was wood grain vinyl. I stripped this off and painted it my signature Diner green textured and shot the legs with Goldust and cleared them.

The speakers were replaced with two 8" blue frame Utah's from the late 1960's that sounded surprisingly good to my ear for 'ol Utahs! I removed the tweeter (don't need it for guitar, and the empty hole now acts as a port.)

The amplifier is NOT stock, it was heavily modified by me. The things I did to it were as follows:

- Changed the input grid-leak bias scheme to be more guitar friendly
- Moved the volume control from the input jack to the output of the first gain stage
- Changed where the negative feedback inserts in the circuit
- Changed the values of the components in the tone control circuit to make the tone controls actually interact at guitar frequencies instead of the lower LF roll off and higher HF roll off associated with most hi-fi amps.
- The tone controls are in the NFB loop of this amp
- Changed coupling capacitor values so that the overdrive would be smoother and less splatty
-Finally, recapped the rest of the amp.

I sold this amp out of Six Strings Down in Plainfield, Indiana. Joe bought it from my good friend who runs the store.  It's a great sounding amp and cool looking too and I'm stoked that Joe digs it as much as I did!

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