Hello, just purchased this amp, play almost everyday and love it. When I first got it (playing for hours) I noticed there was a crackling/scratchy... almost like a loose connection sound from the amp, I played around with the cord and it didnt happen again until tonight, about 2 months later. This time it didnt just go away so here are my observations:
I was on full power, maybe 2 on volum, on the clean channle with gain. It seemed fine on e, B, G but on D is where it happened, didnt matter what fret and it seemed to do it on the A and E as well but not as much, I switched channels it did the same, I went into standby and switched cables, same thing, I plugged the guitar in another amp and the issue did not happen, I plugged the guitar back in to the marshal, the crackle was still there. I turned the amp off, put it in half power, turned it back on and no crackle. I turned the amp off, did a few things around the house. came back, put the amp back to 40W, turn it on and it is fine.
Thinking it happens if it gets warm? I have never had a tube amp... so im not sure what signs to look for with regards to a tube going bad... I'm not sure if originally leaving it at 40W and restarting it if it would have been fine. I will try and recreate and see what happens. Any thoughts?
UPDATING:
The foot switch made no difference. I'll move it to another room tonight. I have included a recording if anyone wants to hear it. In the recording you here the noise, I hit the B string 3rd fret... and it goes away, i then hit the D string 12 fret and you hear it come back.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0GN6N50JSBpbTdwZUFWYVVTOU1TMFdfODdFRmdSQkxEcjNB/view?usp=sharing
I have looked for a definite answer to this and have not found one. I played my amp the other night with no problems, but last night as I turned on the amp it just died on me as soon as I turned the standby off. There was no noise, pops, crackles, fizzes. It just turned off. I checked the main fuse and it was blown. I have not had any issues with tubes and they have not shown any signs of wearing out. I made sure my amp was connected to the cab correctly (remember i have had this rig for 8 years) and that I had a speaker cable rather than a guitar cable. I found online there could be issues with impedence and what not. I took the back off of my cab and noticed that a positive lead on one of my v30's became disconnected. I thought, 'Could it be?" So I reconnected it and replaced the fuse and the amp worked as advertised. I played for an hour or so and no problems yet. Could it be that the discoonnected positive lead on one speaker caused it to blow a main fuse?
Hi All,
Im a novice player (of thirty years experience :-/) and looking at putting a song repetoire together for a band. Ive always wanted to play sweet child live and have little experience with amp settings etc. Ive recently purchased my first Marshall (A DSL40) and was wondering if anyone could advise some good settings for playing the sweet child solo's?
Thanks!
Hi there,Back in 2000 or 2001 I bought a Jcm 2000 - 100w dsl 1960a cab...made in england I'm sure.Nowadays you can get a dslh and cab for $1200-$1799.Is the quality the same,and is the JCM2000 worth much more than that.Thats what I had in it 17 yrs ago,but haven't seen the price higher than that. some of the heads are $2500 alone now. thanks and please help clear me up on this .
Getting a fair amount of hum in the FX loop with my DSL 50 head.
It's not the pedals. No problem in front.
Is this a common failure?
Tubes are good, and bias is at about 43mv, and even.
A couple of weeks ago I bought aforementioned amp. I was very happy with it, no issues so far, but today while playing I noticed a weird buzzing sound that my amp makes whenever I play an A note on my guitar. I tried different fret position, plugging in my other guitar and even moving the amp in case something else than the amp itself was making the sound. Nothing helped. Did anyone else had a similar problem? Any ideas what might be causing it?
