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Post subject: Silverface Bassman 50
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 4:01 pm
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I recently acquired a '73 Bassman 50 and it kept blowing fuses when I got it. I took it into an amp tech and he fixed the problem (a cap was shorted out and kept blowing the fuse). However, when I got the amp home, I began played on it to test everything out. Upon playing on it I found that the bass channel was non working and that while the normal channel worked there was a loud hum to that channel. Also, after playing the amp for a while, I found that it began to pop extremely loudly while I was playing. Do the tubes in the amp need to be replaced or is it a more serious problem which the amp needs to go back into the shop for?


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Post subject: Re: Silverface Bassman 50
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 4:40 pm
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No competent amp tech with any shred of professional ethics would return a client's amp without at least mentioning that it had other, undiagnosed issues which required attention.

Find yourself a new tech and instruct him to perform a full bench check to determine the extent of the maintenance required to bring the amp back to full factory specs.

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