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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:26 pm
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Just get some tube dampners.

http://search.ebay.com/tube-dampers_W0Q ... eNameZWD8B


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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:53 pm
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It's interesting as I have been playing my Hot Rod the past few days. There is a hiss kind of noise that I can't seem to eliminate. I have a hum X that seems to do the job on my Blues DeVille 410. With pedals, without pedals it just hangs on. I think it is more a product of construction than anything else. I fear that I will eventually have to bring it to an amp teck, replace the speaker and have him re wire some of the amp. I think it can be a great amp even with some minor modifications, it just seems to be made poorly.


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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:38 pm
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I've got a Blues Deluxe (USA) I bought brand new in 1995. I haven't had any trouble with it. Sounds as great today as it did in '95. It likes Electro Harmonix tubes the best, although I have used some Sovtek 6L6WXT+ with success. When I do some retubes for a local band, I usually tell them to use the same tubes it came with if they like the sound. That way it doesn't change the general sound as much.


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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:43 am
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Some hiss and noise are normal in tube amps unless it's really loud.


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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:15 am
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Switched the tubes around (getting them out of those metal clips is a pain) and now both tubes rattle like a mofo.

This keeps getting better and better. I'm going for a set of JJ 6l6's. Or maybe I'll say screw it and just buy a Peavey Bandit 112.


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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:27 pm
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If they ever make a transitor sound really like a tube, I'll be first in line to buy one of them. In the meantime, we will just have to put up with the aches and pains of owning a thermionic emission device.


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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:07 pm
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I'm tempted to just play S.S. amplifiers and force myself to like them.


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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:02 pm
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You just need a higher end tube amp of build one yourself. There's a lot of amp kits out there.


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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:14 pm
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Hey Supro, I'm really tempted to build that Deluxe Reverb a certain tube depot has on their web site. $1000+ is kinda steep though for a bunch of parts that don't do anything unless I put it together. Have you had any experience with the mentioned kits?


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Nope. I have some electronics background though. I'm thinking a Deluxe 5e3. Fender has a reissue. It's a tweed circuit. I've played through one and they sound incredible. You can get a full kit for about $700 with a cabinet.
A deluxe Reverb may be a little complex for a first build. You can get a Princeton or a Champ too. They would be great first builds.

If my HRdlx takes a dump, I may use the chassis and cabinet and get a new faceplate made.


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Nope. I have some electronics background though. I'm thinking a Deluxe 5e3. Fender has a reissue. It's a tweed circuit. I've played through one and they sound incredible. You can get a full kit for about $700 with a cabinet.
A deluxe Reverb may be a little complex for a first build. You can get a Princeton or a Champ too. They would be great first builds.

If my HRdlx takes a dump, I may use the chassis and cabinet and get a new faceplate made.


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I've played thru numerous Champ amps. I repaired a Vibro champ and played some that were just sitting around in an old guitar shop. Great classic Fender tone, but don't have quite the grunt I need. I would build a Princeton maybe.

I too have a little electronics background.


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A good friend of mine has an old tweed champ (the one with the tremolo) and it sounds fantastic. It has a really great sound, and sounds best when it's just cranked the snot out of. I don't think I could put an amplifier together - or at least in less time then a couple of years.

I've been thinking about a Roland JC-120 for ages but sprang for the HRdlx because of the luck my brother had with it. Most of the old marshall's I've played through didn't have any problems, but it must be because of the Head/Cab design.

It's been so long since I've played through a transistor amplifier I'm not even sure if the sound is the same, but I know the Line 6 stuff is pretty good live.

Thanks for all the help.

Andy


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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:29 pm
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My HRDlx sounds great but it just doesn't hold up well in gigging situations.
My nephew has one from 1995 and never had a problem with it, but he only plays it a few times a year. Mine lasted through 3 weeks of gigging and landed in the shop for a week and a half. I'm not hard on my equipment either.
A 5 year warranty is great if you only need it once in a while. Originally when I started using Fender amps in 1964, you got a one year warranty. I would usually go around 10-15 years before it needed routine maintenance.

I never had a Fender amp fail in the first year ever. Then again they were all hand wired.


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I gigged with my Blues Deluxe a little while, until my bandmates bought 100 watt Marshalls. Didn't want to spend too much money, so I bought a B-52 AT-212 and modded the crap out of it. (Overdrive channel that is, clean channel sounds fine)

Dang Supro! Playing on Fenders since '64! I think I was being potty trained then.


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