Mats A wrote:Mine has been away for two weeks now so i guess it must have been something more than a valve.
Yeah probably unneeded shop time or it HASN'T EVEN BEEN LOOKED AT!...
A little off topic from the AFD itself but a useful cautionary tale to amps in general....
This situation is exactly why I started fixing my amps myself, after a month of waiting for the bad news on my 1966 Blackfaced Fender Bandmaster amp I went down to the shop to ask them wtf was up with my amp and it was still sitting in their doorway with other amps stacked on it. I took one look at my amp being mistreated like that ripped it out from the pile and said "thats not the way you treat a classic" and from that day forward I fixed my own amps, I figured at the very least if I can't fix it, it will be treated better than having its tolex indented by other peoples shit.
Whenever you bring something to someone to fix weather its a car or amplifier for example, YOU ARE totally at the mercy of their honesty and sadly when you're paying for someone elses living directly in a fashion like that, they WILL take their time, which is why when I must have somebody else do something that I can't (due to lack of proper equipment,bad situation or time) I pay for results, not time when I have projects done.
This was one of the many reason that I'm so glad that Steve D is such a stand up guy who loves his work and his profession to such an extent to take the time to help a guy like me out in finding a solution to fixing the Vintage Modern litterally hours after it had things go wrong. I can't think of another manufacturer that would support their customers like Steve and Marshall have. I still chuckle to myself when a tech in my area said he doesn't work on Marshalls because the support "sucks" and "parts are tough to get", its been a breeze.
Amplifiers: Marshall 2555x 100watt Silver Jubilee Full Stack with matching 2551AV & 2551BV 8x12 70 watt Vintage 30 speakers.
Marshall 2466 100watt Vintage Modern w/ Matching 425A cab
1966 Fender Bandmaster
Effects: MXR:M234 Analog Chorus, Phase90, Slash Octave Fuzz, Slash SC95 Wah. BOSS: RV-3 & DD3 Reverb & Delay, GE-7 EQ,NS-2 Noise Suppressor, CS-3 Compression Sustainer
Guitars: 6 Les Pauls with Seymour Duncan Alnico 2 Pro Pickups.