Lonestar Lossy Crunch out Problem oh please help

[django]

Dear gurus...please advise:

My Lonestar is 'crunching out' when i play at any volume. Like the sound disappears a little and kind of makes a crunchy sound when it does. I've tried new cord and guitar and its still the same. Its almost like its getting too much signal to process...any ideas?

please help i need to fix asap!

 

[tle4]

Maybe time for tubes. I would check preamp first. Get a known good preamp ube and swap it in and out of each position and see if it goes away each time you swap

 

[django]

took it to the man and tested the tubes...they seemed to be okay, but he put in a few new ones. i couldn't seem to reproduce the crunch...time will tell.

 

[felix vampiro]

Is the effects loop in or set to hard bypass?

we just seem to get a few posts with problems that are cured with cleaning the jack sockets on the loop