Re: Best Amp For the Money?
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"I'm tired of the lame tone my DSL 100 puts out"
Jon_B, may be have your amp checked? I mean it is all in the eyes of beholder etc, but it should not sound particularly lame. It is a decent amp, may be it is not working properly, or problem somewhere else in the signal chain... then you will not fix it by going with a different amp. By doing so you're going to get a different tone, different charecter but not all the sudden 'great' vs 'lame'. Just my opinion.
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Sorry, I should have stated my situation a little better, it's actually not a bad sounding amp. Some of my guitars sound better through it than my other ones. Not too long ago it had stopped working, no sound; so I went out and got some new tubes, still no sound. So I sent it back to my music shop and they couldn't find anything wrong with it, rebiased it and put the old tubes back in. Got it back and worked fine for a little bit, but I noticed when I didn't warm up for more than 5 minutes I would start playing and after about 30 seconds the volume would fade to nothing, sometimes I could catch it and switch to standby for a bit and it would play fine from then on; but now it won't make any sound. There is a slight noise when I plug the cable into the input jack on the head, but nothing on the other end of the cable. I tried the new tubes, and no difference.
Anyways, thanks for all the suggestions! Time for something new anyways.
[ QUOTE ]
"I'm tired of the lame tone my DSL 100 puts out"
Jon_B, may be have your amp checked? I mean it is all in the eyes of beholder etc, but it should not sound particularly lame. It is a decent amp, may be it is not working properly, or problem somewhere else in the signal chain... then you will not fix it by going with a different amp. By doing so you're going to get a different tone, different charecter but not all the sudden 'great' vs 'lame'. Just my opinion.
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Sorry, I should have stated my situation a little better, it's actually not a bad sounding amp. Some of my guitars sound better through it than my other ones. Not too long ago it had stopped working, no sound; so I went out and got some new tubes, still no sound. So I sent it back to my music shop and they couldn't find anything wrong with it, rebiased it and put the old tubes back in. Got it back and worked fine for a little bit, but I noticed when I didn't warm up for more than 5 minutes I would start playing and after about 30 seconds the volume would fade to nothing, sometimes I could catch it and switch to standby for a bit and it would play fine from then on; but now it won't make any sound. There is a slight noise when I plug the cable into the input jack on the head, but nothing on the other end of the cable. I tried the new tubes, and no difference.
Anyways, thanks for all the suggestions! Time for something new anyways.
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