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Thank you! Sound points you made! No pun intended, lol

Hi, Wondering if anyone has heard both the Trickfish J-Core preamp AND the Guitar Fuel SBK Tone Monster preamp? I'm trying to decide which one to get. I'm leaning towards the J-Core, with its super neat and tidy "everything attached to a circuitboard" design, but if the Tone Monster actually...

Hey, Remember back before Tobias became MTD? Does anyone know why the creator would make such a decision? I remember the first time I saw an MTD bass at Guitar Center. It was one of the worst POS I'd ever seen. Literally, it was worse than a poorly set up Fender Squire. I was SO...

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! Just wanted to update this in case anyone was curious... I ended up buying 3 new "JJ" brand, ECC83 preamp tubes from "EuroTubes" online (as recommended by the techs there, over a few emails). While I still am not clear on the mysterious static noise my...

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! Just wanted to update this in case anyone was curious... I ended up Cool! Thanks again. I didn't know contact cleaner would not help clean in this situation. So, is it more of an electrical, solid state kind of thing, as opposed to a physical, mechanical...

Thanks! I wasn't going to spray directly into the jacks. I just sprayed some electrical contact cleaner (which is designed to evaporate almost instantly) onto a patch cord plug and inserted it in and out of the jack, to hopefully clean the contacts the plug makes contact with. I actually don't...

Well, I Don't know how you feel about Ampeg, but I use similar sized speakers as you but Ampeg brand. I have a ported 410 cab I use with a high powered hybrid head for bigger gigs and I just bought a solid state 150 watt micro head paired with a great sounding 210 cab for smaller gigs and taking...

I have an Ampeg 410HLF cab. It was serviced years ago to have some drivers replaced and I want to verify that it's got Eminence speakers in it. (That's what it ships with from the factory, right? Eminence brand speakers?) Is it a big deal to find out? I've never even taken the grill off...

Haha! Love it! Thanks so much! I totally get it. And I do know to lower the Master when adjusting the Gain. We practiced yesterday in my living room and It was actually (as usual) hard to get it to sound bad, lol. It did begin to approach breaking up some, but it never gets gnarly like a guitar...

Thanks! You sound quite knowledgeable. The place I'm taking it to is actually an authorized Ampeg service place, so hopefully they know what their doing, lol.

Thanks! - No, I didn't know about checking for issues with the effects loop. So If I put a guitar effects patch cable from the in to the out on the effects loop, and the noise goes away, what does that mean? - Thanks for the tube source -I also didn't know about setting the gain by sound and...

Hey everyone, I will be taking my beloved 4-Pro in for servicing soon (It's been making weird static sort of noises) and I'd like to have them go on and put all new preamp tubes in it while they have it apart. From what I've found online so far, it takes 12AX7's, 3 of them. I don't know...

@twinfallsbass Thanks a lot for your input! Sweetwater told me on the phone yesterday that the 2X10 was the way to go. He basically said he hadn't had very good luck with 15 inch speakers overall. But, of course, that's just one person's opinion, which I asked for. Which cab "sounds better"...