This came in with a loud hum as soon as switched on, I found dc was reaching the speaker and the only way this could happen was if there was a fault in the output ic. Not an easy circuit board to remove but I was able to fit a new ic and get it […]
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A new jockey wheel for this one, someone had filed the old one down so far that that the plastic backing was contacting the motor pulley and platter, I have no idea why they did that but the mechanical noise was very distracting. I wasn’t able to get an original but found that one from
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On the bench today, a classy Orange guitar amp, the fault reported was the reverb not working and one of the foot switches also not working. Stripping the amp down I thought I’d cracked it straight away as one of the connections into the reverb tank was broken, “easy” I thought but it wasn’t to
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A lovely Fender valve amp in for repair, I found two microphonic preamp valves, everything else checked out and it now sounds great…but probably better with someone else playing through it!
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This nice little amp was brought in with the reverb tank missing, apart from that the input jack was a bit hit and miss and the whole thing was in a bit of a mess. I was able to get an appropriate reverb tank from Hotrox, the input jack was a bit harder to source
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What a classy amp, made in Sweden by EBS and a few years old now. It was suffering from an annoying hum, even with no instrument plugged in, I traced this to poor earthing on the preamp panel which relies on a good contact between the chassis and the metal bodies of the potentiometers, I
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Not something I normally do but as it was for a mate I thought I’d do it anyway. He had a lot of scratchy controls and the output of the clean channel was fluctuating quite badly. My initial hopes of this being caused by the noisy controls were dashed when the problem persisted after all