Recent content by Norseman

Never mind. Turns out it was the battery in my guitar for the active pickups. I have a brand new (about a month old) Alex Lifeson Epiphone and didn’t expect the battery to die so soon.

I have a Mesa Mark V that’s a couple of years old now. I play through it every day and have no issues. Now out of the blue I turn it on and there’s a loud hiss and you hear me strumming like in the background. I was gonna order replacement tubes. Sound like that is the issue?

Good deal LOL Thanks guys!!

I played guitar for about an hour and set the guitar down on the stand, put the amp in Standby and must've gotten distracted. 6 hours later I went to play guitar and see I left it powered on :oops: Considering it was in Standby this isn’t really that bad for it right? I don’t know the...

Fuse and tube installs were a success!!! I’ve been playing all night! I should’ve been in bed hours ago and honestly I don’t want to put it down but I really need to get some sleep before tomorrow (later on today)!! Man I can’t thank you guys enough for the great tips 🤘🏻😎 I am sad to say I...

I should have them tonight. Is there anything special about putting these tubes in? I remember years ago everyone would always say “don’t try and do it yourself because you need an (attenttiator?) ...something like that.

Ok so power tubes haven’t arrived yet but I found a little 2.5A fuse that was blown. I ran to the local hardware store and bought a replacement. Put it in, turned the amp back on and waited like 15 minutes before attempting to play. It sounded loud - but sounded like crap. Then I start...

Awesome ...thank again!

Would these work: Mesa/Boogie 6L6 STR 440 Power Tubes - Matched Duet

Yeah I agree with the 6L6s and personal preference. Ok let me order a set of tubes and start watching YouRube videos to see what I have to do lol Thanks for the help!

So the 2 power tubes installed are EL34. I was thinking of buying 6L6’s. (There’s a switch on the back to toggle between the 2.). There’s like 5 smaller tubes in there. Would they have to be swapped out, too, or just the power tubes?

Ok I’ll start there and see. Thanks!

So I haven’t powered my Solo 50 Single Rectifier up in about 4 years. I decided to fire it up and jam a little. From past experience I know you have to let the tubes warm up so I waited like 5 minutes and I flipped the Standby switch and I could hear it really low. So I turned the volume up a...

Anybody know if my above scenario would work?

Would this do the trick: https://www.google.com/shopping/product/16659769358406993509?q=voltage%20regulator&hl=en&client=safari&biw=320&bih=360&sa=X&ei=1RfuUM-OAou60AGmmICABA&ved=0CHsQ8wIwAg Or should I go with the first voltage regulator I posted and plug a Monster power conditioner into...