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    My beloved Archon 50 is suddenly noisy

    I'm going to try one more thing first I have a set of new pre-amp tube coming from Doug's Tubes. I'm sure that's not the problem but you never know, AND I'll have a stock of 6 known good 12AX tubes to add to my stock.
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    My beloved Archon 50 is suddenly noisy

    Whelp the noise is back. Friday at the our gig, mid set, my girl looked at me with a look on her face like, what was that noise? After the set she asked me where the static came from and I said I don't know...our drummer was really loud that night and I didn't really even notice...I just wrote...
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    My beloved Archon 50 is suddenly noisy

    You guys all rock. I love this forum, everyone is always very helpful. So a bit of an update, I brought the amp to practice last night to let my bass player hear it and give his opinion as he's a bit of an electronics guru. He's going through some stuff though and I really didn't want to impose...
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    My beloved Archon 50 is suddenly noisy

    No, the warranty is up. All the solder joints looked good, I cleaned the tube pins and it hasn't changed. Guess I need to have an amp guy look at it.
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    My beloved Archon 50 is suddenly noisy

    Ok, I tried swapping three of the four tubes I have into each of the 6 preamp sockets with absolutely no change...I think its safe to say its not a tube issue. I'll pick up a can of detoxit and try cleaning the pins when I get a chance but I'm really thinking its something more involved I may...
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    My beloved Archon 50 is suddenly noisy

    PS, what are the chances that 2 preamp tubes are bad and how do you even go about finding 2 bad tubes? Seems to me almost impossible to find the right combination.
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    My beloved Archon 50 is suddenly noisy

    I've tried swapping every tube in the amp, and there is no change. I have 4 preamp tubes, two Tung-Sols, a Mullard and a Ruby that I believe to be good...they were bought new by me..and a matched set of Ruby 6L6 power tubes and swapping them in makes no difference in the noise. I may just start...
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    My beloved Archon 50 is suddenly noisy

    I did a search of the forums but didn't find anything similar issues. The other day I was swapping tubes out of V1 and V4 in hopes of gaining a little more headroom on the clean channel when suddenly I started getting this annoying hiss with deep crackling sound that reminds me of rain hitting...
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    Archon 50 Dirt channel

    I believe it was. Funny thing now is, right after I typed my question I did a little test here at home. I set it up my board into the front of the amp and the boost had very little effect. Then I put my board through the loop and it's boosting just fine. Last week at practice I swear I was...
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    Archon 50 Dirt channel

    Back in December I got an Archon 50 combo amp. I really love this thing, it takes pedals really well and has that nice fat tone that I had been looking for, it's the amp that stopped me from shopping for amps. I primarily use the clean channel but the dirty channel has some killer tone too. So I...
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    HNAD to me!!!

    Whelp, I had some time to play around with it and I found it's my DD-7. Took a video but it dosen't want to upload, oh well you all know what hiss sounds like. Guess I'll have to ditch the Boss delay.
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    HNAD to me!!!

    Update time, I gave up on the non working amp I got a week or so ago and went for a new one that showed up today. I played through it for an hour and and the thing is absolutely glorious. It sounds just as good as the first one did before it died, I had an irrational fear that the first one...
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    X’s New MT 15 Amp Day Video & 1st Thoughts!

    Sounds great, I'm guessing you're in a 90s cover band :cool: I recognized everyone of those songs you played. Are you using the MT for gigs? *EDIT* Never mind I see that you do use the amp for gigs....that's what I get for posting without reading all the way through a thread.
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    HNAD to me!!!

    Here's the picture I was trying to post yesterday. It's definitely the bias adjuster, so nice that you don't have to dig into the amp to get to it...away from the caps.
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    HNAD to me!!!

    So I'm still working with the Support team to get this thing working but I was wondering about this 1/4" jack between the power tubes. Anyone know what its for? *EDIT* I think I figured it out, I got in there with my camera phone and I believe its the bias adjustment....unfortunately I can't...
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