Glacies
August 22nd, 2012, 04:00 PM
I got this amp for my birthday 2 weeks ago and it's awesome. Awesome tone, clean headroom to spare in the band and some awesome crunch, particularly with my Les Paul. However, I noticed 2 things with it that are giving me some concern and I was hoping you guys could help out a tube amp newbie.
1. The volume kind of died out for no reason. It didn't go away, it just seemed to drop a level or 2 for a bit. It was such a surprise that I didn't know if I hit a knob on my guitar or what, but after some fiddling I got it back up to where I needed it. This may or may not be a problem, I just thought I'd mention it in case it sounded familiar to anyone.
2. This is the real issue, the sound seems to drop out. I noticed this particularly on my clean channel when I start digging in a bit.
3. On the crunch channel if I raise the gain it will start sounding out some scratchy static (not from my guitar)
Is this a tube problem, a speaker problem or what? This is my first venture into more serious gear and getting a nearly 20 year old amp, I figured i'd need to do some maintenance. Well, word is tube amps are maintenance period.
1. The volume kind of died out for no reason. It didn't go away, it just seemed to drop a level or 2 for a bit. It was such a surprise that I didn't know if I hit a knob on my guitar or what, but after some fiddling I got it back up to where I needed it. This may or may not be a problem, I just thought I'd mention it in case it sounded familiar to anyone.
2. This is the real issue, the sound seems to drop out. I noticed this particularly on my clean channel when I start digging in a bit.
3. On the crunch channel if I raise the gain it will start sounding out some scratchy static (not from my guitar)
Is this a tube problem, a speaker problem or what? This is my first venture into more serious gear and getting a nearly 20 year old amp, I figured i'd need to do some maintenance. Well, word is tube amps are maintenance period.