- Mexican or USA made Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Amps?
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I did have it unplugged when I took the back off. Are the power tubes the two 6L6's? Is there a way to date this amp with the serial number? Sarah , Dec 4, How long are you letting it sit with the standby on. The tubes need to warm up real good.
Fire up the amp with the standby engaged and do something else for several minutes. Get your sheet music or lesson plan together. It won't hurt to sit that long even if you arte folding a load of clothes out of the dryer. When you flip the standby there's a lot of current hitting the tubes and that sounds like what you are hearing.
Mexican or USA made Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Amps?
Just give it a minute and it will clear out before you start playing. Remember when you are done to let the amp power down with the standby engaged.
Give it several minutes! Before I go to bed I always walk by the amps to make sure I shut them off. Sometimes I don't go back there and got my head into something else. I can turn to the right from the computer and see in the other room if I left them on. For the most part I'm pretty good about it. Just remember to warm it up before playing and power down before you shut it down. If you would PM me a snapshot of your chassis in the back with a list of what tubes are in it. I'm thinking it's probably still loaded with GTs. I'll go over what all you need and have to do for tube changes.
Anything that doesn't require cracking open the chassis.
For now you should be fine but I don't care for Fender's genaric speakers. I'll be happy to go over speakers with you. That sounds like excellent advice and I will follow those tips to a tee! Typically I do turn it on and then switch it to standby. I'll let it warm up quite a while, at least five minutes, before I play anything through it.
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe questions
I never thought of the power down sequence, but that makes perfect sense. I'll take the pics and PM you with them. Thank you for the help. Here are some pictures. The first 2 numbers show who made it and the next four are supposed to be a date code. Look for "speaker date codes" or something like that.
Fender® Forums • View topic - date of manufacture my Hotrod deluxe?
Eminance might have the codes on their site too. The transformer should have numbers on it that will give you a date too. I swear I get like 3 or 4 a month with the input jacks broken. I had a USA-made Deville. I always got better results with stomp boxes into the clean channel.
The Tonebone hot british distortion worked particularly well with that amp. It was a very good sounding Marshall in a box. Now you can get a two-channel hot british the plexitube with an effects loop in the lead channel, which I imagine would be pretty killer. I used that, and a tube screamer for bluesy tones or as a lead boost in conjuction with the TB Hot British and had a pretty nice set of tones to work with.
In fact, I miss that setup now that I think about it, it was every bit as good as any multichannel high gain amp that I can think of. If you only want a clean channel But if you want a good dirty channel, dont even go there. Originally Posted by Arpanoid I was meditating on the finer things of life and then I realized that PrimeHoly is the god of this forum.
Originally Posted by eudaimonia Just think: There must be thread ideas that pop in Charveldan's head, but which, after some thought, he rejects and decides not to post. Imagine how bizarre those ideas must be, if they don't even meet Charveldan's standards. Stay far, far away from it. It sounds like crap and it will stay broken. It is a very poor excuse for a tube amp. It is absolutely the worst amp I have ever owned. I regretted buying that thing everyday I owned it. Help FAQs Go to top. Advertise on the most comprehensive and widely viewed musicians' website.