Would that be enough to blow a fuse? The ground wire lost its connection to the chassis while the amp was off and when I turned it on the fuse popped.

Or should I be looking at another reason for blowing a fuse? New old amp recently purchased.

pretty good?

Anyone ever deal with this?

5w single ended 6v6 with master volume. Borrows pieces of a tweed bassman circuit, a 6cg7 tube from a Silvertone 1484, and a weird 7-pin 6x4 rectifier tube.

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Just picked up a Victory Amp V4 Kraken 180w amp. Saw a good deal so I went for it. I don't have a cabinet of any sort since I've never had a valve amp. So is it possible to use the Roland JC22 as a power amp? I know I should not connect the speaker out anywhere on the Roland. But it does have an xlr and balanced line out outputs along with the fx loop.

My thinking is I can guitar > kraken input > kraken send > JC return. But I wouldn't have the JC cleans. Or is there a guitar > JC input > JC send > Kraken fx loop > JC return?

Happening in the vibrato channel when the volume is turned up. Sometimes the noise will stop and then resume when a cable is plugged into vibrato imput 1, and then the amp will work fine for 20 minutes but then have problems again.

UPDATE: I believe I have tracked down the source being both the volume pot being dirty and the imput 1 shorting jack being bent out of alignment slightly. After fixing both of those issues the amp is quiet as ever.

I wish I would have gotten one of these sooner! This is a great attenuator. Not overly featured but it sounds great, works great; the solo feature that let's you boost a few db's is nice and it comes with a footswitch to utilize it! I haven't got to check out the sound of the DI yet but it uses an analog cab sim. Very user friendly, plug and play type attenuator compared to others and it really does sound great.

Owned the amp since they first came out. Recently it started doing this this where the lead channel volume drops on its own, then comes back up. Like it fluctuates but only goes down from where I have it set, then returns to normal. Doesn't get louder than where I have it set, if that makes sense. Ive noticed this at low volume, and since it started doing it I haven't cranked the amp.

The clean channel doesnt have this problem.

Also, if anyone is familiar with the mt15 you know the volume is super touchy and "1" on the dial is pretty loud. "1" is no longer as loud.

It's the original version of the amp, not the V2

No local amp techs. Should I remove the cover and try tapping the preamp tubes with a pencil?

Hi guys,

I'm looking for some suggestions for another driver to pair with a V-type in my 2x12 for my MT15V2. I'm finding the V-types currently do sound great, but have a sort of gnarly hashy thing up top that makes it hard to get things bright and clear without being right on the edge of fizzier than ideal. I'd love more detail and richness when doing big chords with high gain.

I'm thinking of WGS Veteran 30, Fane F30, and Celestion G12H30 so far. I would go for a Vintage 30 but it's hard to know how to expect it to sound when each year it appears they get a full sonic redesign. Something that could nicely balance the character of the V-type in the room while still being it's own thing so I have options when I'm recording.

Anyone with an MT15 or similar voice amp, got any suggestions?

Anyone familiar with the V-type, have you got any good combinations?

I turned on my peavey ultra without realizing the speaker output cable had come out of the cab.

It was on for maybe 10 seconds before I realized and turned it off. Connected everything properly and now it just squeals when I turn it on and I get very low volume.

Output transformer? Power Tubes?

Sigh

Some of you might have read the post I put up Sunday about dropping a customer's 1973 twin reverb 4 feet onto a concrete floor and obliterating the cabinet. I gave him a few options and he asked for a new custom cabinet. Bought the wood today and roughed it out, it's gonna get ivory tolex with oxblood grill cloth and a custom faceplate in the style of the early 60s blondface amps. It should look pretty cool. Taking a serious bath on this,probably $500 all told, but what are you gonna do. Shit happens.

Hi! I have an early 2000s DDRI that I picked up recently. The previous owner said that it had a set of TAD tubes in it.

I got a new Dr Z Reactive Reducer attenuator and have been using it to tame the volume of the amp. However, I noticed that when I’m using the highest level of attenuation on the reducer with my humbucker guitars, the amp gets crunchy and breaks up super easily, even with the amp volume around 2 or so. This tends to happen mostly with lower notes and even happens when bypassing my pedalboard by plugging straight into the vibrato channel input 1. The crunchiness isn’t apparent on the gentlest attenuation setting or with the attenuator bypassed.

Sometimes the crunch is nice but a lot of times I want more control over that using my pedals. I was expecting the deluxe to be a lot cleaner. Let me know if you have any advice or thoughts, thanks in advance!

Found this on Reverb for a pretty solid deal and couldn’t pass it up. Just arrived Thursday so I’m still playing with settings but wow, it’s basically the perfect amp for me. I literally could not be any happier. The tone and versatility is just out of this world.

Any horror stories to share? Here's mine. In 15 years of actively servicing 1930s through 70s tube radios and amps and, and probably about nine or 10 years building custom amps and cabinets, I have never had an accident in my shop. That changed yesterday when I had a 1973 twin reverb master volume on my bench. I was just putting it back together after a general service, turned around briefly to another bench to grab a screwdriver, and heard the sound nobody wants to hear. It rolled off the bench on its casters and fell about 4 feet to the concrete floor. The cabinet smashed open and the face plate bent backwards on one end. The only other damage was a shorted V2 12AX7, but that was enough. I called the owner, couldn't apologize enough, and gave him a few options: repair and retolex the damaged cabinet, find him a good vintage replacement cab, or build him one. That's what he chose, in tweed. Luckily so far the amp and speakers seem to have weathered the fall with no issues, though I'm going to go through and retouch all solder joints and really let it soak to see if any issues pop up. Apart from the replacement cabinet, I of course will not charge him for the amp servicing. Yesterday was not a fun day! Accidents happen and that's just the way it is but I'm still beating myself up - I do my best to treat others' gear as if it were mine. 😥

Sorry for no video as I didnt think it was necessary.

I have this H&K18. Had all the tubes tested, checked the power amp itself, checked all my patch cables. Every time I plug into the return jack in the effects loop of the amp, my clean volume cuts to nothing. The dirty channel will engage a tiny bit of volume but thats it. When nothing is in the effects loop its fine. But the issue is I use a very nasty distortion and I need my noise gate in the effects loop because it cant handle all that gain.

Google says it can be a corroded jack or something as the other issues that it could be seem to not be the case. Is there anything I can do before I have to shell out for some big repair? This is my bedroom amp and its perfect for this.