In the “old days” UK mains voltage was 240 volts AC and Ireland plus mainland Europe was 220 volts AC. With the tolerances back in those old days UK mains voltage could be as high as 264 volts AC, so running an amp that was set for 220 volts AC in the UK could mean that the amp was being run at 20% over voltage. That means your valves have a heater voltage that is […]
We have been working to make it easier to find products in our shop. We have increased our product a lot over the past year and I was finding it difficult enough to find products on our website, so I am sure it was harder for you ! We have made a number of improvements. If you click on the categories picture on the front page, this opens up a set of selections. Here is
A very sick Mesa Boogie Caliber DC 10 amp arrived for me to have a look at. Our first Mesa Boogie Amp repair. This one had one dead channel and my 22 watt Fender Deluxe was as loud as this amp. The Mesa Boogie is a 100 watt amp so something was up. It also sounded naff. Mesa’s have a reputation of being complex and difficult to repair. I had never seen inside one but
We have introduced more new valves which are all now in stock. We now have the more specialised valves that are used in Ampeg and Peavey guitar amps. The Electro Harmonix 12DW7 ( also known as the ECC832) is a double triode and in this valve one half is like an ECC83 ( 12 AX7) with a gain of 100 and the other half like an ECC82 ( 12AU7) with a gain of 20. Peavey
We do sell on Ebay and our own webshop.. After all if Ebay is good enough for Argos and Tesco it should be good enough for us ! Ebay is a convenient and its a click with Paypal and the goods are on the way. We are a premium power seller on Ebay so we do well on Ebay. Our user name is Vlavetubeguitaramps and we have an Ebay shop. There appears to be all
This is a summary on Brexit and valve pricing. Following the UK referendum on Brexit, we have seen a lot of turmoil in the stock market and currency markets. How does this affect pricing of valves and imported amps, guitars? Russian valves makes such as Tung Sol , Electro Harmonix, Sovtek have their base pricing in US $. JJ Electronic are in Slovakia and we buy from the factory in Euros. The Uk £ has
A Vox Ac30 CC2X arrived that was sounding mushy, crackling and popping and when you tapped the case made wonderful microphone ! On removing the back it was obvious that the EL84’s had been in the amp since new and I guess the amp to 5 or more years old. One of the ECC83’s had been changed for Groove Tubes at some point. On testing the EL84’s they were totally mis-matched to each other and
