All of us that have a valve / tube amplifier at sometime find our lovely favourite all valve amplifier suddenly starts blowing fuses. Sounds like a disaster has happened and out wallet is about to take severe damage. Has the amp gone to the great gig in the sky ? A Vox AC30 CC1 blowing fuses was what was presented to me. The Vox AC30 CC1 is a hybrid amp with the reverb and tremolo […]
I switched on my amp which had been working perfectly the day before. When I used the footswitch to turn on the spring line reverb, strange sounds came from the amp. It was the sound of rumbling thunder with reverb. Not good ! So your first thought is the reverb unit is faulty. Unlikely. My thoughts tuned to the schematic and decided that the ECC83 ( 12AX7) driving the reverb could have become noisy. I
Here is a short video under 2 minutes on 6L6 output valves and long plate versus short plate valves. This video shows something surprising about different 6L6 valves. A quick look a long plate and short plate ECC83 /12AX7 type valves is included too. Click here to watch on Youtube We started creating our Youtube channel only 2 weeks ago on 16th January 2016. Here is a link to the channel
It is February 2016 and we have added more new products, as part of our commitment to our customers to greater choice and they are all in stock in the UK. This month’s introductions are : Two new suppliers of the 6V6GT which was highly favoured in the Fender Tweeds and amps like the Fender Deluxe Reverb. I have a vested interest here as I have a Fender Deluxe Reverb ! We are stocking the
We recently repaired a Bugera V55 Infinium amp. We added a Bugera V55 Infinium video to our video channel . There has been a lot of chatter on especially North American forums about these amps so we thought we would show the amp repair with an amp that was blowing fuses. We then did a quick review on its build and features and then finished off with a couple of suggestions to improve the amp.
Why did that valve suddenly stop working? I thought it might be useful to look at what the common failures in valves are as they age. I have had a number of folks ask me why their amp suddenly started blowing fuses. My first recommendation is to replace the fuse , unplug the valve rectifier and see if it still blowing fuses. More often than not, the amp stops blowing fuses when the rectifier is