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I have had the same issue with this amp myself. I have been playing since 1975. And I have been playing gigs since 1982. I know its not me. It is a frequency somewhere between 2.5 and 5 k and it can be down right painful at a high volume. And I find it hard to smooth out. I got the replacement...

Could you tell me how much the cab cost?

Hi, This is an excerpt from the owners manual. "The Express incorporates an internal EFFECTS LOOP to handle the interfacing of outboard processing. This circuit is a patch point between the preamp and the power section and it is wired in series with the dry (un-affected) signal. Since this...

The tubes I got are: SED 6L6 Pair Tung-Sol 12AX7 High Gain JJ ECC83 Penta 12AX7 Shuguang 12AX7 8th gen Sovtek 12AX7 LPS After I ordered the sets I E-mailed Doug and told him I wanted the replacement set for an Express 5:50 and this is what he sent. The only thing that was different from my...

Hi All, I got my set of tubes from Doug's today and installed them. It has made quite a significant difference for the better. It does cut the gain a little but I don't see that as a bad thing because it gives me a little more subtle room to play with. I am not a metal player so I don't need hi...

Hey Gezza, The replacement set of tubes on Doug's website is for a Express 5:50 ( 6L6 Tubes) . You have the 5:25 ( EL84's) . You might want to E-mail Doug and make sure which ones you should get.

I just ordered a set for my Express 5:50 from Doug's today. I am really looking forward to hearing it. It sounds like a great investment from what everyone else says about it. I have a 73 twin that I had converted to Blackface specs and experimenting with different tubes made a significant...

What is a Yute? heheheh

I own the 5:50 and I bought it because it is 50 watts and it has a 12" speaker. To make sound you have to move air. A 10" speaker will hit its limit before a 12" will. I have played in many different gig situations with my 5:50 and it was impossible to bury this amp in the mix. As a matter of...

Well, mission acomplished. I got the VoodooLab up and running and I have no tone loss.....woohoo!!! I left out the Ratt and the Volume pedal. I also got better (and shorter :0 ) chords. I got gigs tommorrow, Friday and Saturday so I will be doing more experimenting after the weekends over. I...

I ran from the guitar to the Keeley Ratt and then into the amp and it had signal loss when the Ratt was not engaged. Then I did the Exact same thing with the Keeley Wah and had signal loss with the Wah not engaged. Both pedals are true bypassed. Then I took the two cables I used on the pedals...

Well, I ordered VoodooLab pedal switcher that should be here in a couple days. I think I will give the Ratt a rest for a while and use the Burn channel instead. That will free up some real estate on the pedal board and I would like to explore the Burn channel anyway. I will post the results when...

Hi Newysurfer, Here is my rig. All the pedals are in front of the amp. My Rig: Les Paul Studio ( w/ Buzz Fieten and Duncan SH-4 in the bridge and SH-2 in the neck position) Ernie Ball Volume ( with a Korg DT-7 Tuner ran off the tuner jack) Keeley Cry Baby Keeley Ratt E. Harmonix Small Clone...

Well, I found what was causing the problem. My "true bypass" pedals are not so true bypass after all. After tinkering with every possible configuration I plugged straight into the amp with a monster cable and voila! It suddenly had all the character and definition I was missing. This a bummer...

That is kinda what I have been doing. I work the volume and the tones slightly most of the night. I think also I really need to adjust the amp according to my ears more than what I am expecting a correct setting to look like. This amp is so colorful that the slightest tweek changes the whole...

Hi, I have had a Express 5:50 for about 3 months now and I was wondering if anyone else has felt that there is a sharp high mid quality to it that seems to be impossible to get around no matter how much I tweak the endless combination of controls. This is a great amp and it is so close to being...