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mellowb1rd's video: Troubleshooting a Vintage Guitar Amplifier Part 2 SHOCKING Ending

@Troubleshooting a Vintage Guitar Amplifier Part 2. SHOCKING Ending.
Back to troubleshooting this guitar amp. I've had this old tube amp for years, and it always had a problem. It worked fine at low volume, but I couldn't turn it up very far on either channel, before it got to the point where it would break up uncontrollably on louder notes. In the last video, I pretty much rewired the whole amp. Partly to make room to take measurements, and partly to work through the schematic, checking that it was all correctly wired. Also, the lead dress was appalling, and may even be the cause of the problem. I also replaced the filter capacitors, since they were 20 years old, plus however long they sat on the shelf. Now it's time to begin trying to diagnose the problem. I'll begin by simply measuring DC voltage at the filter caps, and by measuring plate, cathode and grid voltages at each of the preamp tubes. I'll also plug in a guitar to record a demo of the problem

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This video was published on 2019-12-20 01:30:04 GMT by @mellowb1rd on Youtube. mellowb1rd has total 150K subscribers on Youtube and has a total of 271 video.This video has received 161 Likes which are lower than the average likes that mellowb1rd gets . @mellowb1rd receives an average views of 24.4K per video on Youtube.This video has received 53 comments which are lower than the average comments that mellowb1rd gets . Overall the views for this video was lower than the average for the profile.

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