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The big one is that Marshalls are usually heads and so are at the mercy of shitty speaker cables, musicians not plugging them in properly, setting the impedance incorrectly etc - and the plug can actually blow itself out of the jack in the cab due to the air pressure build-up when the speakers are working hard. (Really!) Fenders are usually combos so there's none of that to worry about, and they also have a shorting switch in the first speaker jack in the unlikely event that someone does pull the plug out, which will save the transformer.
A secondary one is that the selectors, both impedance and mains voltage, which Marshall used are a dreadful component, especially in the 1970s (the earlier 60s ones not quite so bad) which were never fit for purpose and can also make an intermittent connection. Fenders don't have impedance selectors and are less sensitive to mismatches anyway. They do have rotary mains voltage selectors which can be accidentally or deliberately set to the wrong voltage, but this *usually* blows the fuse before the transformer. (Not always.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Oh, and really doesn't like the Jensen C12K does he?
Just repaired another amp ... A 2 x 12 Carvin combo with some kind of liquid (beer maybe) all over the preamp PCB which had hardened with the HT over the valve bases and caused havoc. Nice amp to work on actually
Like Fender Blues & Pro junior & Fender 68 Custom Princeton Reverb.
You will find many videos regarding re biasing the Hot Rod series due to valves running too hot and the reason for this is
Voltage in the UK is 240v and Europe 220v so Fender export their amps set to 230v and the result of this is the amps run hot
in the UK ! But you can just change a couple of wires ( no soldering needed ) and set your amp to 240v and this allows the
amp to run cooler in the UK. Just Google it and you will find it.
My advice would be if you want an amp to last buy something basic so there's not much to go wrong and if you can
afford it go for something that's hand wired and it will last !
of the 3 of them, the Laney was the only one that gave me the feeling it could go at any time, but in fairness never did. The Classic 30 never let me down and I never came across any owner who'd had a problem with them despite the potential from the well publicised PCB design flaw.
The HRD for me is just in another league though. It just feels so well put together and exudes solidity at every level.
Oh..... almost forgot, props to my old Peavey Bandit as well, it was the first of the Transtube models and as per the HRD had that brick outhouse feel about it. Frankly, I don't know why I ever sold it!