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 […]
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. Â It was the sound of rumbling thunder with reverb. Not good ! So your first thought is the reverb unit is faulty. Â Unlikely. My thoughts tuned to the schematic and decided that the ECC83 ( 12AX7) driving the reverb could have become noisy. Â I
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While I was sitting drinking my morning coffee, I found this interesting article on diagnosing valve tube problems in amps ( I know I am a bit sad!). It is on the Mesa Boogie website and I thought it was worth sharing. it is well written and I thought it would be useful for folks when their amp starts “misbehaving”. We have suffered not just tha p stopping in its tracks, but the crackles and