Recent content by rowbi

well it's not my bass amp, it's the bassists from my band, and he's skint, and knowing a little about valve guitar amps I've got the job to fix it for free (cost of parts).

okay, so you may have seen my other thread about other issues which seem to be fixed noe YEY. but there's one last thing to fix, and that's a HUM. it's not really loud but it's a pain, and I would like to get rid of it. it's a solid state amp, a trace elliot 1210, it's got a GP12 preamp...

thanks for that. I think I've found the issue. all the jack sockets in the amp seem to have some green-ish corrosion on the surface of the metal parts of the jacks. this seemed to be that the effects loop return jack was really greean and where the pins on the jack touched to make the...

cool, sounds like you really know what you're talking about. I'll try all that and see what happens... just a thought.... is there any reason why there's the screw block in there?? wouldn't it be better to solder the wires direct??

there's no fan. the only thing I found was the bolt holding the big round transformer was loose, so the transformer could move around. apart from that it looks very complicated. photos of the inside of the amp here: Link Removed any clues where to start looking? also should I be...

Hi I'm the lead guitarist in a band, and my bassist is having some issues with his amp, and as I mod a lot of my guitar amps, I thought I'd try to fix it. my problem is that I haven't ever worked on a bass amp, and so I'm posting in the hope that someone knows any common issues that I could...