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Ampeg Reverberocket II - lil' help
Howdy, I'm a new member. Just getting re-plugged after 15 yrs of purely acoustic music. Wanted an amp with great 50's-60's garageband, blues, etc. sound with lots of clean headroom for gigging with a full band including a drummer. Did lots of reading and finally bought a 60's era Ampeg Reverberocket II off eBay. Seller was great and swore I'd be 100% satsified with the amp, and even posted it with a 7-day return period. It came yesterday, only two days after I won it.
I installed the tubes which seemed in good shape. I turned it on and let it warm up 5-10 minutes before trying it out.
The amp sounded ok, but didn't seem terribly loud even at wide open nor did it break up much at all. And then when I clicked on the tremelo I got none or maybe only a very, very, very hint of trem. Thought footswitch might be bad but it works fine for the echo which is quite strong.
The only change the tremelo-adjustment knobs had was when I turned the "intensity" knob down the amp got noticeably louder and started breaking up (i.e., distorting).
Does anyone have any ideas? I'd rather not return it if I don't have to. Did I do something wrong installing the tubes? I mean a tube is just a tube as long as it is put into the proper socket right?
Thanks for any help possible. I'm about 3.5 hrs away from anyone that works on tube amps for a living, so if I can solve this myself it'd be great.
P.S. This seems like an excellent forum BTW.
I installed the tubes which seemed in good shape. I turned it on and let it warm up 5-10 minutes before trying it out.
The amp sounded ok, but didn't seem terribly loud even at wide open nor did it break up much at all. And then when I clicked on the tremelo I got none or maybe only a very, very, very hint of trem. Thought footswitch might be bad but it works fine for the echo which is quite strong.
The only change the tremelo-adjustment knobs had was when I turned the "intensity" knob down the amp got noticeably louder and started breaking up (i.e., distorting).
Does anyone have any ideas? I'd rather not return it if I don't have to. Did I do something wrong installing the tubes? I mean a tube is just a tube as long as it is put into the proper socket right?
Thanks for any help possible. I'm about 3.5 hrs away from anyone that works on tube amps for a living, so if I can solve this myself it'd be great.
P.S. This seems like an excellent forum BTW.
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