Less balls and noise :(

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So long story short I have a lot of noise in my Mark V now. The noise only occurs on each channel when I put gain on it. I feel like the amp is just thinner overall now and it has no balls. For the balls issue, I am at a loss because this weekend was my first show with the G90 but from what I've read and heard before my attempt to use it, the G90 works immaculately but this was the first time I noticed the lack of balls and I'm just a little put off by it now. As for noise, I have looked around and I found a few mentions changing V1 and fixing the noise issue. I was checking here to see if anyone had another thing to try before I drop all the money and get a SPAX7A tube from Mesa.
As for what I use and what I've tried. I use a Mark V, G System, Monster power conditioner, and Line 6 G90. As for guitars I use a few Gibsons with everything from Dimarzio's to EMG's to Burstbuckers to Bill Lawrence pickups to SD's. I have tried every guitar and gone straight in with two different high quality guitar cables. There is still noise with gain but not with the clean channel. Any advice here?
 
Have you checked ALL the tubes or just V1?

Sounds like a tube turning crap to me.

(BTW you want ballz you get a cab, to my ears combos just don't cut it in terms of low end thump)
 
I haven't checked any of the tubes, I was just fishing for other solutions but I'm fairly certain it is a tube since the amp sounded and worked great until this Friday. I did run the amp in 90, 45, and 10 watts and switched out the tubes in the 10 watt setting with another duet I had to be sure that that wasn't the issue. Also its been 100+ or in the 90's at least for most of these shows so I figured that'd be a good place to start looking.

As for the balls its a head and a Recto 2X12 so it had balls to spare until this weekend.
 
If this just started with the addition of the G90, try the cable tone feature on the unit. The G90 is very Hi-Fi like, and will add alot of the highend you were losing with a cable and that could "thin" out the sound a bit, but should not add any noise that was not there before. I think I have mine on the 15 or 25 foot setting. If that doesn't change anything try the tube suggestions mentioned.

BTW- I LOVE my G90!

Dom
 
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