Hey if anyone out there is familiar with the Hot Rod Deville circuit, I've got some problems. Earlier last year I installed the Fromel Supreme kit (which sounds great by the way) along with replacing the speakers with a set of Weber Blue Pups and Celestion Greenbacks. I was using Yellow Jacket tube adaptors for a while and when I switched back to using 6L6GC's I noticed that my volume was incredibly low. Almost like I was only running on one poweramp tube. Heavy, heavy, heavy compression very early on and distortion extremely early in the clean channel (about 11 on the clock). I measured the dB output when fully dimed at it caps at 85 so all in all it sounds like a 5 watt amp now rather than the screaming 60 watter it used to be. After doing some research I've found some people suggesting it could be an open load on a cathode bypass capacitor or possibly that the phase inverter is faulty. Can one of you sagacious amp gurus help me troubleshoot this thing?
Having trouble with my Hot Rod DeVille!!
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Chickenwings
Alnico 6/8
Re: Having trouble with my Hot Rod DeVille!!
are both tubes glowing hot, or only one?
hotrods all suffer from the fairly common complaint of a burned out screen resistor. It is not difficult to replace one (or both) and upgrade the wattage on them so they dont burn out so easily.
are both tubes glowing hot, or only one?
hotrods all suffer from the fairly common complaint of a burned out screen resistor. It is not difficult to replace one (or both) and upgrade the wattage on them so they dont burn out so easily.
Chickenwings
Alnico 6/8
Re: Having trouble with my Hot Rod DeVille!!
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?272031-Hot-Rod-Deluxe-Burned-Up-Screen-Resistor
looks like the fantastic old resource "the unofficial hot rod deluxe" page has been brought back from the dead!
http://hotroddiy.com/
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?272031-Hot-Rod-Deluxe-Burned-Up-Screen-Resistor
looks like the fantastic old resource "the unofficial hot rod deluxe" page has been brought back from the dead!
http://hotroddiy.com/
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Funkfingers
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Re: Having trouble with my Hot Rod DeVille!!
2 weeks later and I've discovered it had nothing to do with internals. Weber and Celestion wire their speakers backwards from eachother, I had the phase reversed on my Blue Pups so half of the sound was being sent right into the top of my amp chassis. I'm a darsh.
2 weeks later and I've discovered it had nothing to do with internals. Weber and Celestion wire their speakers backwards from eachother, I had the phase reversed on my Blue Pups so half of the sound was being sent right into the top of my amp chassis. I'm a darsh.
Kamanda~SD
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Re: Having trouble with my Hot Rod DeVille!!
Nice find though.
Nice find though.
Re: Having trouble with my Hot Rod DeVille!!
Nice. Hot Rod Deville Noise Cancelling Amplifiers!
Nice. Hot Rod Deville Noise Cancelling Amplifiers!
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