Hi,
I have a problem with my BF Princeton Reverb clone. As far as I remember it was working propperly a while ago but my harp player borrowed it for a year or so and now that I have it back it farts out badly. To put this in somewhat better terms, here is what it does:
Even on rather moderate volume settings (around 3 or 4) it has developed a very unpleasant distortion that sounds like a blown speaker but the speaker is ok. I have replaced it with a known good one and it still does it.... it has a weak and very "broken" tone especially in the low frequencies. There is no singing quality to it anymore ... the lower the frequency and the bassier the guitar the worse it gets. The bass frequencies feel pretty weak and the more I bring up the bass controll the more it farts and grinds without developing any real low end. It'S hard to describe tone but I hope you get what I mean.
Before I go any buy all kinds of new tubes, filter caps and such ... what would be the first things you would look into?
THANKS!!!
I have a problem with my BF Princeton Reverb clone. As far as I remember it was working propperly a while ago but my harp player borrowed it for a year or so and now that I have it back it farts out badly. To put this in somewhat better terms, here is what it does:
Even on rather moderate volume settings (around 3 or 4) it has developed a very unpleasant distortion that sounds like a blown speaker but the speaker is ok. I have replaced it with a known good one and it still does it.... it has a weak and very "broken" tone especially in the low frequencies. There is no singing quality to it anymore ... the lower the frequency and the bassier the guitar the worse it gets. The bass frequencies feel pretty weak and the more I bring up the bass controll the more it farts and grinds without developing any real low end. It'S hard to describe tone but I hope you get what I mean.
Before I go any buy all kinds of new tubes, filter caps and such ... what would be the first things you would look into?
THANKS!!!
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