I'm having some serious, or maybe not too serious issues with my Twin. It's a 2003 '65 Ri. Ever since I bought it used from Guitar Center for $800, I've been having issues here and there. About a month ago, I had my local and well trusted amp repair and rental put some new tubes in, check up on the speakers, bias, etc. He even moved around the wires and tied them together for the least hum possible, because that was one of the original problems. It cost me about $250 for the greatly needed full tube replacement including the price of the Electro Harmonix tubes and everything else. It seemed to do the trick, almost no hum or rattling at all. The only thing I noticed right off the bat was that it distorted a quicker than the previous Fender Groove Tubes. The place I got it done by is called On Stage Services, they do all the work for GC in my area.
Everything was great until about a week after, I was rehearsing with the band and all of a sudden I get this weird crackling noise about 20 minutes into playing. It sounds almost as if I'm losing connection with one of the instrument cables and regaining it right away. I'm going from the Twin to a Boss Blues Driver and straight into the Gibson SG Standard. I thought that's what it was but it only happens when you crank the amp past around 5 hit a chord or sometimes even a note hard. We usually do have to turn up quite a bit, our drummer is a very hard hitter. I also notice that when I pick a little harder or hit certain notes, not even cranked past 3, I hear a sort of buzzing sound coming from the amp, like speaker distortion except a little different; pretty muffled actually. This issue was not fixed at all by new tubes. The speakers are both Jensen C12k's, and I would hate to have to replace them. After all the shop did say the speakers tested fine. In addition to all the other issues, a couple days ago, I was playing with it a little while my drummer was practicing, and I was able to turn it all the way up to 8 with no issue, it was just as loud as the drums! I wasn't exactly sure what happened there but I'm out of town and haven't tried it since.
Also I'm plugged into the regular channel with the bright switch off, treble around 4, mid around 6, bass around 6. Volume is usually 5. If I turn the bright switch on, the muffled notes from what sounds like speaker distortion get MUCH worse. Please help me out, I'd REALLY appreciate it!
Thank you,
Daniel
Everything was great until about a week after, I was rehearsing with the band and all of a sudden I get this weird crackling noise about 20 minutes into playing. It sounds almost as if I'm losing connection with one of the instrument cables and regaining it right away. I'm going from the Twin to a Boss Blues Driver and straight into the Gibson SG Standard. I thought that's what it was but it only happens when you crank the amp past around 5 hit a chord or sometimes even a note hard. We usually do have to turn up quite a bit, our drummer is a very hard hitter. I also notice that when I pick a little harder or hit certain notes, not even cranked past 3, I hear a sort of buzzing sound coming from the amp, like speaker distortion except a little different; pretty muffled actually. This issue was not fixed at all by new tubes. The speakers are both Jensen C12k's, and I would hate to have to replace them. After all the shop did say the speakers tested fine. In addition to all the other issues, a couple days ago, I was playing with it a little while my drummer was practicing, and I was able to turn it all the way up to 8 with no issue, it was just as loud as the drums! I wasn't exactly sure what happened there but I'm out of town and haven't tried it since.
Also I'm plugged into the regular channel with the bright switch off, treble around 4, mid around 6, bass around 6. Volume is usually 5. If I turn the bright switch on, the muffled notes from what sounds like speaker distortion get MUCH worse. Please help me out, I'd REALLY appreciate it!
Thank you,
Daniel
