maverick help. NOW WITH VIDEO!

This sums it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnTyxsTKQBk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

It would make more sense if you plugged you guitar in and played, since that is the way the amp was intended to be operated.

I just went down and tried mine. Yeah it has about the same amount of "rush" noise as your video. Plugging in an axe changed the sound a little bit. Funny thing is I never noticed this before, I would have said the thing was quiet. I just never get the volume settings up that high.

And yeah it gets hot. I had it repaired once and the thing had melted parts of the board.

I like this amp. The clean channel is great but I can't get anything but mud of the lead channel, must be bugged up. Dosen't matter to me I have not switched a channel on an amp in years.

Yup, this is what happens when you don't use the standby switch to warm it up.

I can let the tubes warm for an hour, mine does the same. Crowbar, could you get video of yours?