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troyr
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Clean channel died last night in the middle of a gig, no pops, no static, no nothing. Dirt channel works fine. Any ideas what this could be? It seemed to quit as I was changing the channel if that helps.
university81
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it could be a faulty tube depending on how they do gain stages but really dunno, you could try swapping out the preamp tubes to see, seeing as one channel works fine
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Tawlks
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Pretty sure that's a busted 12AX7 in the pre.
Are reliability issues in Blackstar's common? Thinking about buying one.
Are reliability issues in Blackstar's common? Thinking about buying one.
university81
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Tawlks":7xhnrz17 said:
i've had no issues with the HT-5 and HT dual , had them about 2-3 months now
The HT-5 is used maybe around 20hrs a week, only thing i changed in it was put a Tung Sol in the 12ax7 slot, sounded better to me
not sure about their other amps, it's a fairly mass produced line so i would think the occasional hiccup would crop up
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Tawlks
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university81":1alakdox said:
That's my thinking, also, I'm looking at the HT-100. There's a whole load of shit to go wrong in there, unlike the HT-5.
university81
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Tawlks":9qxdc74w said:
I've heard more stories of Peavey amps going astray than Blackstar, but that's totally out of context, given how long peavey have been making amps. there's probably horror stories with a lot of companies
I've also been quite interested in the HT-100 and the Series 104 EL34 , but this is all coming from the hours i've spent with the Ht-5 which has always been at pretty low volumes
hard to beat the price/features tho, you should probably find good deals on blackstar stuff used