Note: We now have a new, superior solution to Marshall JCM2000 bias drift and valve failure issues. Find the details here. Marshall JCM2000 DSL100 Tube Damage Cascading Events following an EL34 valve /tube failure This Marshall JCM2000 DSL100 tube damage results in a number of failures – all caused by a Marshall branded EL34. The valve had short circuited. The EL34 was a TAD EL34 and these were supplied to TAD I believe from […]
Early 70’s Vox AC30 (Birch Stolec) Revived Background Info When Jennings Musical Instruments ceased operations, the assets were bought by an organisation called Birch Stolec and they created the company Vox Sound LTD. This is a rare model. It is worth noting that the example of this model which is shown on the website https://www.voxac30.org.uk/vox_ac30_birch_stolec_1971-1973_vsl.html This AC30 was created to have all the features of an AC30 plus reverb. The target was also to
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Egnator Rebel Combo Service Summary. Again worn valves but other less obvious issues to be addressed.
Vox AC30CC1 a simple fault This Vox AC 30 model is a lightweight one speaker version and the speaker is a special light weight design. The amp circuitry is the same. Its big disadvantage is no lovely Alnico Blue speakers The owner reported the amp as sounding weak and intermittent. I played detective and asked a number of questions. When was the amp last used? It has not been used in a number of
Summary of this amp A lovely Fender Blackface Deluxe Reverb 1966 came to us. It was extremely noisy and the reverb was crackling and popping. It was a USA 110 volt AC model and so used a step down transformer to enable it to run in the UK on 230 voltsThe amp was all original apart from the power supply capacitors and the choke having been changed. It is very unusual ( at least to
Getting that Superb Fender Tone Blackface and Silverface Fender amps were renowned for their clean sounds which moved to nice gentle bluesy break up when pushed hard. How did they achieve this? Fender chose their valves/tubes carefully to produce this wonderful palette of sounds that players just love. If you are country or blues player you are in heaven with these old amps. They command high prices for good ones especially from 1963- 73.