Hi,
Yesterday I had my new mesa boogie roadster. I opened up the back to remove the plastic things from power tubes and change the english lead with an european one (I bought the amp from england and I live in Belgium). I did the same with a marshall tsl 100 that I bought from england and that one works perfect.
I read in the manual that the small tubes could've got some plastic on it too but I didn't notice anything on them. I set up the whole amp and used the 16 ohm straight into a 412 behringer cab on mono, so everything should've be good so far... I turned on the amp, played a bit and switched on the reverb on the footboard, I randomly set up the reverb on the rear of the amp for each channel but no reverb at all on any of the channels...
I thought it could be a broken tube maybe, but after playing I felt each of the small tubes and they were all a little bit hot, so I guess none of them is broken (probably that means nothing if they are hot or not). I'm quite new to tube amplifiers since a month or two when I bought my TSL. I'm a big fan of the TSL and roadster sound so that's why I bought these amps. Oh I also tried to play on the amp without the footboard and I guess reverb is always ON then? Doesn't seem to work without the footboard either...
I might change the small tubes from place so the 'working' ones are in place of the reverb tubes, but I didn't do that yet because I read something about 'bias' and I'm not sure if it's a good idea to change them?
I almost don't know ANYTHING of amps, so I'd rather do some research first before damaging anything of this highly priced but worth the money amps. Does anyone seem to know what I am doing wrong or what could've been broken?
(Kinda off-topic: I tested the slave out too and it seems this one has a shitload of crunchy treble but I guess that's because it's not speaker emulated? I recorded something on my juno G keyboard and put a 'speaker' effect on the dry slave out recordings and then it sounded much more realistic already.)
Any help is HIGHLY appreciated!
Yesterday I had my new mesa boogie roadster. I opened up the back to remove the plastic things from power tubes and change the english lead with an european one (I bought the amp from england and I live in Belgium). I did the same with a marshall tsl 100 that I bought from england and that one works perfect.
I read in the manual that the small tubes could've got some plastic on it too but I didn't notice anything on them. I set up the whole amp and used the 16 ohm straight into a 412 behringer cab on mono, so everything should've be good so far... I turned on the amp, played a bit and switched on the reverb on the footboard, I randomly set up the reverb on the rear of the amp for each channel but no reverb at all on any of the channels...
I thought it could be a broken tube maybe, but after playing I felt each of the small tubes and they were all a little bit hot, so I guess none of them is broken (probably that means nothing if they are hot or not). I'm quite new to tube amplifiers since a month or two when I bought my TSL. I'm a big fan of the TSL and roadster sound so that's why I bought these amps. Oh I also tried to play on the amp without the footboard and I guess reverb is always ON then? Doesn't seem to work without the footboard either...
I might change the small tubes from place so the 'working' ones are in place of the reverb tubes, but I didn't do that yet because I read something about 'bias' and I'm not sure if it's a good idea to change them?
I almost don't know ANYTHING of amps, so I'd rather do some research first before damaging anything of this highly priced but worth the money amps. Does anyone seem to know what I am doing wrong or what could've been broken?
(Kinda off-topic: I tested the slave out too and it seems this one has a shitload of crunchy treble but I guess that's because it's not speaker emulated? I recorded something on my juno G keyboard and put a 'speaker' effect on the dry slave out recordings and then it sounded much more realistic already.)
Any help is HIGHLY appreciated!
