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Unexpected Valve wear in an Orange Rockerverb 50 MkIII

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of doing a quick service on and Orange Rockerverb MkIII. The amp is just coming up on two years old and gigged at least every week. The owner reported that the amp was creating murky distortion and it sounded so horrible it was no longer useable. So this amp is experiencing a lot of lugging around and used at giigs lasting 3 hours or more. He was leaving […]

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The Howl and the Hum fixing four Fender amps in one day

Its a couple of weeks since I wrote about fixing amps and I had not seen a Fender amp to fix for a few weeks and then along comes four all on the same day ! In the cover picture we proudly present four broken amps -At the Top a Fender Blues Jr III -Underneath is a Fender Supersonic 40 watter -to the left is a Princeton Reverb re-issue -to the right is a Hot

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Ashdown Evo II 300

This is essentially a solid state amp so before I get shot down in flames, my defence is that there is one valve in this amp which is there to warm up the sound. This Ashdown Evo II 300 is a 300 watt amp with twin 12 inch speakers. It is very well constructed with great access to the key parts of the amp This Ashdown Evo II 300 was distorting and sounded terrible. When

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Tone King Imperial Mk1 Repair of a weird fault

The Fault A nice Tone King Imperial Mk1 ( http://www.toneking.com )arrived with a strange fault. When you turned up the reverb control there was this horrible buzzing sound which increased as you tried to increase the wetness of the reverb. Faults like this are usually the reverb cables, plug and sockets not being earned correctly or even a faulty reverb pan. Not this one! Read on ….. Background on the Tone King Imperial Amp Mk1 and

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Two Rock Gainmaster 35

A two rock Gainmaster 35 arrived for a service. It is manufactured by the Premier Builders Guild LLC. A fancy name! The amps are made in California and are around £2000.. They are built on a printed circuit style board which looks very like tagboard . See in the picture below. This amp is extremely well made and is a relatively simple straightforward design having two pre-amp valves, one phase splitter driving the two 6L6GC

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Laney VH100R Service

A Laney VH100R amp head came in for a service. While “nothing” was wrong with it, the owner decided just to have its health checked out. This is a really high gain amp with 6 ECC83/12AX7 pre-amp valves driving 4x EL34B to give a 100 watts out. On switch on it was clear that a couple of the pre-amp valves had gone microphonic and the bases of the EL34B were all burnt. A sign of

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Some interesting links

As its a new year I thought I should share links of interesting folks who you could find useful. Juke Box Genius This is nice guy who is based in Bristol and he travels to customers and fixes jukeboxes. He does all the mechanical and electrical servicing and total restorations too. The Juke Box Man Continuing the juke box theme, here is a site where you can find all those important bits to keep your

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