Recent content by maB

Hi everyone, indeed, one of the contacts of this capacitor in the image of my last post was loose. After renewing the soldering the noise is gone! :m17: Thanks for everyone who tried to help! Maybe one last question: Can someone with a known stock Diezel VH4 tell me whether the soldering / the...

After experimenting around with another two new preamp tubes and getting no results, I had another look at the wiring and I think I've found the culprit. When I tap the yellow marked element I get the exact same cracking. In fact even if I tap around the element, e.g. just the PCB, it's also...

Thanks everyone for your replies, here's a short update. In my local music store they had a single TAD 12AX7A-C. I tried it in different positions and switching it out for different pre-amp tubes → still there I bought a new set of power tubes → still there I tried to tighten the contact...

Der Sound des VH4 is nah genug dran an Zauberei! Vielen Dank 😁

Okay, I'll try tapping to check for microphonic tubes and cleaning the sockets and will report back. Another thing I forgot to mention is that the cracking scales with volume, so if I turn up the volume the cracking becomes louder with sound. Thanks! And thanks for the help :cheers: Edit: I...

Mir fällt gerade die Kinnlade runter, dass der Peter Diezel höchstpersönlich hier die Seriennummern zuordnet! Du bist einfach eine coole Socke ;) Könntest du sagen aus welchem Zeitraum mein VH4 mit der Nummer 010227 sein könnte?

Hi! First post on the forum! Recently I bought a used Diezel VH4, it's my very first tube amp, before I was playing only a modelling combo. When testing the amp beforehand I didn't really notice anything, but at home after a while I noticed that the amp is sometimes producing very loud and...