The reason I even posted this was because I recently watched a youtube video reviewing the Badlander amp and watched the guy reach out and flip the power switch from full power to variac exactly as I described in my post(without standby). I thought it might be a useful reminder.
I recently had a problem with my Mark v 90 watt. I was mysteriously blowing pre-amp tubes and couldn't figure out why. I started evaluating the way I was using the amplifier for clues as to what could be going wrong. One of the things I had taken to doing was to enter variac mode from normal...
Not really what you are looking for(parametric), but I just got a great deal on an Ashly 31 band GQX3102 stereo equalizer from musicians friend. It was a used unit but I got it for around $130. I use one half for input eq and the other half for loop eq and it works fantastic. I got the Ashly...