jared
Active member
Folks,
Picked up a used tremoverb head last week... R-0036xx with the power cord attached (can't remember the last two digits off hand)... seemed like a nice catch.
Gigged it with the tubes that were in there... not bad... volume dropped out occasionally but it came back... figured ok, bad tubes and since i didn't know how old the ones that came with it were, i'd swap out every tube in the amp... all 4 power tubes, 6 12ax7's and the two rectifier tubes..
So today I get around to doing just that... switched from 6L6 to EL34 to give that sound a shot, love it on the overdrive...
Sounds great for about 2 mins... can hardly turn the volume up... until a sudden loss of output... now, i need to turn the master for each channel up all the way, just to get bedroom volume!
I checked my V1, V2 and V6 sockets... as a spot check... still no improvement.. all tubes glowing... bold/spongy switch no difference... tube/silicone diodes no difference...
I had a tremo combo last year that did this same thing... took it for a fix.. got it back with all new tubes and they said it was fixed, but it wasn't...
I don't know what's wrong and I know they say it's almost always the tubes, and Mesa's are tanks, and this and that but I've returned 5 Mesa's in two years... and this is the second tremo to do something similar...
Anyone have any idea what i'm doing wrong? Again it was playing at full volume and dropped in the middle of playing it, no adjustment to knobs, loop settings, gain, nothing!
I want to take it back and have it looked at but I want to make sure I'm not overlooking anything blatantly obvious!
Thanks everyone!
Picked up a used tremoverb head last week... R-0036xx with the power cord attached (can't remember the last two digits off hand)... seemed like a nice catch.
Gigged it with the tubes that were in there... not bad... volume dropped out occasionally but it came back... figured ok, bad tubes and since i didn't know how old the ones that came with it were, i'd swap out every tube in the amp... all 4 power tubes, 6 12ax7's and the two rectifier tubes..
So today I get around to doing just that... switched from 6L6 to EL34 to give that sound a shot, love it on the overdrive...
Sounds great for about 2 mins... can hardly turn the volume up... until a sudden loss of output... now, i need to turn the master for each channel up all the way, just to get bedroom volume!
I checked my V1, V2 and V6 sockets... as a spot check... still no improvement.. all tubes glowing... bold/spongy switch no difference... tube/silicone diodes no difference...
I had a tremo combo last year that did this same thing... took it for a fix.. got it back with all new tubes and they said it was fixed, but it wasn't...
I don't know what's wrong and I know they say it's almost always the tubes, and Mesa's are tanks, and this and that but I've returned 5 Mesa's in two years... and this is the second tremo to do something similar...
Anyone have any idea what i'm doing wrong? Again it was playing at full volume and dropped in the middle of playing it, no adjustment to knobs, loop settings, gain, nothing!
I want to take it back and have it looked at but I want to make sure I'm not overlooking anything blatantly obvious!
Thanks everyone!