New amp questions?

Vick

So i got the champ! :d and i love it...got gr8 service and everything from musicmadness...

Just a few questions...the amp is making a 'krakling' sound at hige volumes...is this normel? ?

And...i kinda whant it to brakeup earlyer,and a bit more,can i have it do that by swaping the tubes with others? And if yes,what do u guys recomend,thanx ?

aja

stock speaker suck!

You really should top up the little guy with a good dose of matta

matta

Vick wrote So i got the champ! :d and i love it...got gr8 service and everything from musicmadness...

Congrats!

Vick wrote Just a few questions...the amp is making a 'krakling' sound at hige volumes...is this normel? ?

Yes, pretty normal for the stock amp... happened on every one I've tried... known issue, but some of the mods take care of it... it is because of the amps heaters, it is most prevalent around 8/9 on the amps volume knob.

Vick wrote And...i kinda whant it to brakeup earlyer,and a bit more,can i have it do that by swaping the tubes with others? And if yes,what do u guys recommend,thanx ?

Sadly it will take more than a tube... the tonestack of the amp is voice with a preset to match the chinese speaker, giving it an almost glassy hi-fi sound, it really doesn't sound very 'champ' like, hence the mods I do t remove the tone stack completely, giving you a more raunchy in your face rock and roll tone.

I'm surprised you haven't mentioned the hum... that for me is the worst part of the stock amp... tunr the amp one, no guitar connected and keep the volume down, listen to how bad it hums... before you even turn the amp up, this is because the power transformer is WAY too close to the Output transformer and EM is being induced into it.

stock speaker suck!

You really should top up the little guy with a good dose of matta

Hah Hah, kind of like 'Hit it with the matta stick', LOL.

Matt

Vick

Jup...she hums...but i didint mension it,coz i didint think one can do anything about it,haha...

Were in pta/joburg can i find sumone who can do these mods?

matta

Vick wrote Jup...she hums...but i didint mension it,coz i didint think one can do anything about it,haha...

Were in pta/joburg can i find sumone who can do these mods?

Yes you can do ALOT about it! To the point where on the modded amps you can have the amp open FULL volume and hear just white noise, no hum! Obviously if you have a single coil guitar you will have hum from the single coils, but the amp itself will not hum... if you have nothing plugged into the amp stock, volume down, it hums, even pull the tubes, it STILL hums, bad Chinese design floor that can be overcome.

RE someone in Joburg, not sure, but if it is any consolation the owners of 'Matta Modded' amps are both IN JOBURG.

Cheers

Matt

aja

Gearhead might be able to help you, not sure if he can/would do the champ. Send him a PM

P.S. Shipping it up from matta was easy and effortless with no damage to any of the components at all. Don't be afraid to send stuff down to the place of cape town, yes it is a strange place though... ?

Gearhead

Gearhead only last year learned some stuff from Karel Mars in a workshop (where were you when?) and he's sure as ... not going to fix up other people's gear for money. I am making a fine living the way I am and there's no need to empoverish myself as a luthier/ampier.
What Gearhead can do for you however is provide you with some workspace and advice - you do the work yourself at my place while I'm there. MikeM is going to do a Champ variant that way soon...

TomCat

Vick

My suggestion is ship the amp to Matta and let him do the mods for you. It'll be worth every cent.