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Post subject: Fender Bandmaster VM problems
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:49 am
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I bought a Fender Bandmaster VM head about two months ago. When I first plugged in I noticed the clean channel to be loud even on low settings like 2 or 3 on the volume. The drive channel seemed awfully bright, but after talking to other VM owners, they said it's just a bright sounding amp.

Last night while playing the Bandmaster, I noticed that some of the top end of the drive channel had rolled off. It seemed like a blanket had been thrown over the amp. I also noticed a volume drop on the clean channel, and now it's very bassy. If I turn the volume knob on the clean channel to 5 (halfway up) it's pretty much at a loud practice volume. I was able to dime the volume without going deaf.

I tried different tubes, different guitar cable, different speaker cable, you name it.

This amp will probably be taking a trip to a tech, but any ideas?


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Post subject: Re: Fender Bandmaster VM problems
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:46 am
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TS808 wrote:
I bought a Fender Bandmaster VM head about two months ago. When I first plugged in I noticed the clean channel to be loud even on low settings like 2 or 3 on the volume. The drive channel seemed awfully bright, but after talking to other VM owners, they said it's just a bright sounding amp.

Last night while playing the Bandmaster, I noticed that some of the top end of the drive channel had rolled off. It seemed like a blanket had been thrown over the amp. I also noticed a volume drop on the clean channel, and now it's very bassy. If I turn the volume knob on the clean channel to 5 (halfway up) it's pretty much at a loud practice volume. I was able to dime the volume without going deaf.

I tried different tubes, different guitar cable, different speaker cable, you name it.

This amp will probably be taking a trip to a tech, but any ideas?


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