Congrats on your new gear. Sounds like you'll be making some noise with those things. It's always good to have something that is more then you need ...

Well my order of 12AX7EH's turned up this morning. I gave the tube socket a bit of a clean as you guys suggested but they seemed pretty clean and new...

Oh I'll try that out. I've got some WD40 here, so that wont damage anything then if I spray a little in to the contact itself. Maybe it would be a go...

Thanks guys, you have been more then helpful in my time of Tube amp dispair......The tubes seem to be laid out in an L shape with the first pre-amp tu...

II have been playing in bands since I was 15 so its been about 10 years now. Gigged with bands all over the UK, but mostly in the South Wales area. ...

So now I know that I don't have to get the pre-amp tubes matched like I would with a set of power-amp tubes. And that the volume drop off could be cau...

I recently sold my ME-50 on eBay. I liked some of the effects but the distortion stomp box modelling is awful. They sound really metallic and shite!...

Start at the beginning like you did when you started to learn how to play guitar. Look around for some vocal exercises that help with strengthening y...

The best thing for a vocalist to use as amplification is usually a PA with a decent dynamic mic (SM58 or something similar) You can use an amp but tha...

Well I set up my chain this morning. I set it out as the list I posted to start this thread. Took me a while to get the EQ right but it made all the...

I was also told to be careful with the placing of the Noisegate with other effects such as reverb. Is it true that a noisegate slamming shut can caus...

I have always used solid state amps due to the cost of an all Tube, then moved on to Hybrid tube/solid state amps (Marshall AVT 150, Marshall mode4) ...