Noisy Vibrolux

[drewl]

Got a Fender Vibrolux reissue that's very noisy/hissy. Noise increases as either channel volume or reverb is turned up.
Haven't cracked it open yet, just swapped in new preamp tubes with no change.
Of course removing phase inverter kills the noise so it's not in the power amp.
Anything I should look for specifcally or is this normal for these amps?
Thanks.

[slidincharlie (Carlo P)]

Good techs and experienced guys will give you precious advice here. Anyway as far as I know the so called "Custom" Vibrolux (it's not a reissue) is hissy by nature.

[drewl]

Precious advice? or precious little advice?

Okay, so it's a Vibrolux Custom...
reflowing and cleaning the input jacks as well as re-routing the input wires dramatically reduced the noise for those interested.

[Tom Phillips]

Precious advice? or precious little advice?...

Is that a complaint that you don't get enough (or fast enough) free help or are you just making a joke?

[TD_Madden]

as the owner of a REAL Vibrolux Reverb (albeit silverface), those are pretty common fixes...in fact true of most Fender amps mad since '68 or so.

Since the "customs" are sort of rare around here, I'm not surprised there wasn't much of a response...but I'm curious about how those jacks got so dirty...that's a fairly recent amp.

[drewl]

Is that a complaint that you don't get enough (or fast enough) free help or are you just making a joke?

Just kidding, I'm always greatful for the shared experiences of others.

[Rxtele]

I have the same issue as drewl
I bought a new Custom vibrolux Reverb at local Guitar Center. I love the tone, would like to dimish the hiss.
suggestions have been: 1)retube with boutique tubes
2)have power tubes biased
3)have additional resistors intalled

I would spend the money for any of the above if it would really work.
Guitar Center wanted to sell me $200 of Groove Tubes. The amp is 1y/o
and the hiss has been there since day 1

any of the above mods likely to work, or is this just an inherently noisy amp?

sorry for the basic nature of the questions, I am new to tube amps

[TD_Madden]

I have read in a couple other forums that they are hissy.