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Welcome along Marty!

Very nice choice, I bet it makes some sweet noise with the amp

Morning!

Have your tubes arrived and if so, have they rectified said problems?

I've seen failing tubes cause these sorts of problems (in fact, the failing pre-amp tubes in my old TSL-100H caused almost identical issues).

I know it's late, but Merry Christmas back

Dogbreath wrote:also like to add that it was my son that brought over his Blackstar head for me to jam on. He's the one that got me really looking into the Blackstar brand.
Good lad that he is.

He's a good egg for sure!

How you enjoying the amp now you've had more time to play it?

Welcome along buddy

Welcome along dogbreath!

I have to congratulate you on using the word discombobulated, you just don't see it enough these days Fixable problem on your guitar hopefully?

I picked up this beauty last week

OK, a minor update. I pulled the valve that was not glowing quite so bright on one side as the others, and it was the ECC82 so no swapping around possible. That said, after inspecting (and finding nothing visually wrong) and re-seating said valve and playing for a couple of hours, the problem has no...

Hi guys, My S1 45 combo is losing drive intermittently on the crunch channel only. All other channels (bright clean, warm clean, super crunch) are fine and dandy. When it happens, it's like you have someone sitting at the amp dialling out the gain knob down to minimal gain. Tiny volume drop (could b...