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did you ever move the melos on? was it one of the cartridge based ones?

poor you! as an amp tech i see quite a few blackstar amps, they tend to just have valve issues though, so not end of the world. personally dont like the sound of them though as they tend to be really fizzly

impedance mismatches get more and more dangerous as you get to higher voltages.

they do about 220watts if you leave the ecc83 in as the phase splitter, if you swap it out for an 81 they hit around 300. v6 that is. I really want another v6

With the JJ's around 160 - 200watt depending on voltage and output transformers, The reissue gold lions will hit around 220watts.

I'd love to put it on the scope to check that as those numbers seem a bit over the top without running the valves really hot or running original gec valves. I've got a 400watter I made but It was to heavy and impractical

they're cheap chinese stuff, don't think they were a lot more than that new

lookin swish

the tone control is a blend between a high pass and a lowpass as you go past twelve it cuts lows and vica versa. at 12 o clock theres normally a mid cut to compensate for the mid heaviness of the circuit. best way to use one of theses for bass is with a clean blend.

Take your amp in for a service

I was wondering if there was a cheaper alternative as can't justify £400 on a set of pick ups haha

Does anyone make a decent clone of it nowadays for less than 300 dollars a pickup? I seem to remember someone on here doing one a few years ago

valve amps want sensitive cabs rather than ones that take a bunch of power to get loud. Also flat with a fender tone stack is 1/ 10 / 1 (bmt) anything else starts to scoop the mids. Also try running the master on full and using the input as the volume control for best headroom

avoid hotrox, I've had a lot of bad valves from them, watford valves have been 100% reliable thus far

the trace elliots are amaze, I can take or leave most mesa boogies

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1506117372' post='3376642'] I keep seeing posts about the concerns with speaker cab ohms ratings, and although with more efficient speakers and higher powered amps this is mainly irrelevant these days it got me thinking. With the old valve amps I believe you could plug a dummy resister in to simulate having a speaker plugged in so as not to damage the amp if powering up with no cab connected. Could a variable resister to used in cabs to allow you to alter the ohms rating of a cab, allowing for greater versatility and mixing and optimal matching of cabs? Like I say, probably redundant these days with the more efficient equipment easily available but I was just wondering. Waddya think [/quote] [quote name='Maude' timestamp='1506117372' post='3376642'] I keep seeing posts about the concerns with speaker cab ohms ratings, and although with more efficient speakers and higher powered amps this is mainly irrelevant these days it got me thinking. With the old valve amps I believe you could plug a dummy resister in to simulate having a speaker plugged in so as not to damage the amp if powering up with no cab connected. Could a variable resister to used in cabs to allow you to alter the ohms rating of a cab, allowing for greater versatility and mixing and optimal matching of cabs? Like I say, probably redundant these days with the more efficient equipment easily available but I was just wondering. Waddya think [/quote] thats why they have different impedance taps

Maybe you should invest in a nice speaker level DI to go with it and hopefully a midget will be loud enough for stage monitoring

personally if i could only have 1 I'd have a proper mutron because they're one of the few pedals that live up to the hype. on a budget though the dod 440 / fx25b does it for me

those are the two best plans you can get but if you wanna keep it simple the tl606 design is tried and tested

with valve amps you can go lower but not higher, but having an impedance mismatch will mean less power. At those sorts of wattages though it's not that massive difference. So running it into 4ohm will be fine. As to speakers you'll want the most cone area possible to get maximum sensitivity. Great amps though and use some cool valves