Hi, I have had a .50 caliber + combo ( 6L6, GEQ, EV12L ) combo since ~2004 and love it. The user manual says you can get clean up to 5 or so on gain dial ( rhythm channel ) but i've never been able to get a properly clean tone at all even with standard tele single pickups ( vol on max always) and rhythm channel gain down to 1-2. I know about mid control, gain staging etc but can you get fender like cleans out of this boogie or is it more dirty ?.
Contacted boogie tech support ( great help ) and they said new pre valves ( particularly V4 and 5 - reverb ) were needed as it has been cutting out ( total volume loss now but extreme low volume before this ) after a few minutes after turn on for quite a few years now, even when i just go into fx loop return ( so V1 - 3 are out of chain ).
Do you think i should get a full new set of pre valves to try to help with clean sound ( in addition to V4 and 5 ) or is this just the nature of these pre-amps ?.
The user guide says you don't need to replace valve preamps unless noise or obvious problems but i've had dirty cleans at low gain levels since getting it, even before the cut out problem started.
The reverb has always been not so loud on full. Is the reverb quite low level on max on these amps ?
Any help much appreciated.
cheers
Contacted boogie tech support ( great help ) and they said new pre valves ( particularly V4 and 5 - reverb ) were needed as it has been cutting out ( total volume loss now but extreme low volume before this ) after a few minutes after turn on for quite a few years now, even when i just go into fx loop return ( so V1 - 3 are out of chain ).
Do you think i should get a full new set of pre valves to try to help with clean sound ( in addition to V4 and 5 ) or is this just the nature of these pre-amps ?.
The user guide says you don't need to replace valve preamps unless noise or obvious problems but i've had dirty cleans at low gain levels since getting it, even before the cut out problem started.
The reverb has always been not so loud on full. Is the reverb quite low level on max on these amps ?
Any help much appreciated.
cheers