Recent content by fendercat

even my tele with stock picups sound a bit lifless in comparison with the cheap guitar ,i have been playing 28 years and know what a guitar should sound like through a good tube amp but i suppose you can become accustomed to a sound but i am overwelmbed by the sound of these cheap picups even...

yeh this is weired ,i have a much loved fat strat ,that had a symore duncan pearly gates in the bridge and two texas specials .well i was getting a little bored with the sound and especially after i got the boogie the guitar just didnt sound alive .i thought it was the amp because i have had a...

go out do yrsel a big favour and get the rockbox boiling point even the clean boost on the thing is fan dabbie dozie 8)

exactly :mrgreen:

will do mate but could take a while :cry:

ok all i have the solution to some of your questions about a decent overdrive in a word THE ROCKBOX BOILINGPOINT thats 3 words i know but i think you get the picture it id the dogs danglers a bit pricey but worth the money it leaves you feeling full instead of hungry ..well youl be hungry...

no mate the amp is brand new wine red taurus a beaut it is pamperd i am taking a day off work tommorrow and taking it to the amp dude an hour n a half away the third set of tubes i put in were jjs and they have lasted all of maybee 3 mnths of playing about yeh 4 hours a week if lucky the amp...

well hears an update to my problems after about a month the power tubes shat them selfs ,when i took my amp back to the shop he told me that the repair guy was over an hour away and they very rarely ever go there,so he said look dude ,i put two new tubes in there and it sounds fine see how you...

no i havent replaced them yet mate i just swapped em over one valve was glowing a little reder than the other so i turned the amp on to standby and swapped em around turned the amp back on and they both warmed up together the same both glowing the same and the horrid sound dissapered but i...

thats it yeh i was trying to think of the sound as well and i was going to say like dragging the palm of your hand across a dry window but the ocean coming through the speaker is simmilar .the amp is less than 6 months old from the shop so i can get two new ones i fink so good oh :)

ok here is my latest dilema ...when turning my amp on to stand by there is a small amount of back ground noise that is constant it sounds like wind blowing on top of a mountain.then when the amp is powerd up and playing some of the notes dont decay properly and have a wooly floppy decay ,I...

ok got it back,it didnt need repairing the guy in the shop didnt realise that the second pre amp valve in the chain is for the crunch blues and burn channel so he thought there was somthing wrong and didnt think of checking it so it has had a re tube with new mesa valves and sounds like a busy...

yeh well ,i was in work today but my wife was home and the guy called from the shop and said that he took it for repair and they said it was a valve problem ,i dont know yet cos i didnt speak to him and you know what women are like they forget to put things like oil in the car :roll: but she...

I am gutted ,i finaly made the purchase of a lifetime ,told my wife i was buying the amp of my dreams ,an express 5.25 ,and it sounds fantastic.however 4 days after taking it home from the shop(i live in perth western australia) it died.I was playing the welsh national anthem on my strat on the...