Help! Repair Shop ideas or amp suggestions ...

4/11/2005 11:37 PM

Dale

Help! Repair Shop ideas or amp suggestions ... Help! Repair Shop ideas or amp suggestions for an idot. OK. I am next to (if not fully) an idot at this stuff. I can tear apart cars, build furniture, rewire a house, and teach statistics to Ph.D.'s but can't seem to repair an amp. I give.     I have a 5e3 someone built and I bought "as is." It seemed to be working fine, bit now has a noise. It has developed a buzz-fizz-zzztt type sound when I hit a note. It is most noticable when the amp is distorting, and seems to trail the decay of the note, dropping out abruptly near the end of the note decay. It sounds a bit like a blown speaker (it isn't I have tried several), or fret buzz (it isn't I have tried several guitars). I also tried switching tubes.     Any clues as to what I should look for here. Or, figuring I am the idot I claim here, ideas about who would be willing to take a look at this type of project on an hourly rate (amp repair person)?