The Amp Garage

Thanks. Yeah, I figured that. Plus I think all the pots - some of them just spin round and round!

cheers,
Chris

Hi,

I recently acquired a broken down Vox Escort 30. Anyone know how they sound? Clips/vids are not too easy to come by and I'm just wondering if it's worth repairing or stripping out and turning into an AC15 kind of thing. Has a nice Fane 12" speaker in it.

Cheers,
Chris

Ah, right. Misunderstood that. Will try and report back.

With a short patch cable, only touching the tip produced a loud buzz. Nothing when touching the sleeve. There is only one input. I'm pretty convinced this is something to do with the heater supply at this point. I didn't get round to trying a battery yet (didn't have the right dropping resistors for...

Yeah I've had really irritating ghost notes on an amp in the past that I assumed were electrical, only to discover it was mechanical vibration in the speaker cabinet. But this issue shows up with multiple speakers in multiple locations. Resistance readings on the input jack were fine and I tried a d...

Thanks for all the suggestions. Tubeswell, the cable is a couple of years old, still in pretty good shape. Don't think that's the root, but I'll try another just to eliminate the variable.

Unfortunately I don't have any commercial amps. My house is fairly new so I guess I automatically ruled that out, but you're right - never rule anything out without trying it first. I'll bring them in to my workplace tomorrow. I'd be delighted if that was the case! (and after that, worried about the...

Thanks! I'll try that this evening.

I've got this problem with a noise in my amps that I just can't chase down. I'll call it a buzz although opinion seems divided on precise terminology of various unwanted amp noises, and therefore the subsequent diagnosis. From an objective point of view it's a fairly high frequency noise. I don't ha...

Agreed. Now I can't wait to crank it, but it's late and I'd wake up the whole street

Ah, yes. I used on/on. Same thing caught me out on the bright switch, now you mention it. I didn't initially realise it was supposed to be on/off/on til I looked more closely at the schematic.

Ok, so I was taking some pics of my switch/pot wiring, and I was reluctant to post them because if I'm honest my wiring is not the neatest, and I wasn't sure they'd be much good to anyone willing to help me debug it. So I had one last look at the schematic, and for some reason I decided to draw my o...

Thanks, I'll see if I can get a decent pic tonight.

As the title says, the bass pot on my 183 build doesn't do anything in Rock mode. No change at all, no matter where you set it. I can't understand it as it works fine in Jazz mode. I've been over and over and can't see any discrepancies vs the layout. Anyone have any ideas? I'm tearing out what litt...

Synchu wrote:Very nice. Now there you have 1 less Dumble type amp to build
Niki

You're right... I thought I'd be satisfied... But still what collection is complete without a SSS?