Anyone here a guitar Tech or know how to repair amps?, lol random, but no seriously I need help Options

[HaysoosKreesto]

Well, on the off chance that anyone here knows I decided to post to see if anyone can help me with a bit of a problem I am having. I have a Krank Krankenstein head/cab half stack that is giving me problems and I was curious if someone had an idea as to why .

Well about 4 weeks ago I turned on my Krank to play, and it decided to not play. At first I thought it was the cord, so I got a new one recently (SP1000 Monster) connecting my Krankenstein (original) to the Krank cab.

After I did all the connections, I turned on my Krank for the first time in a while all excited to play but almost nothing came out. I always let my tubes warm up for like a good 2 or 3 minutes and usually that gives a fantastic quality sound, but unfortunately I have not been able to hear this sound because the Krank is somehow malfunctioning.

Now to describe the problem (as best as I can): Well from the instant I turn the stand-by feature off and try to play anything, what comes out is a VERY very faint signal, and what sounds like Filiment moving around. It sounds considerably worse on the Dime channel (the high gain makes it a worse SSSSSSS sound and the Filiment sound and almost no signal, maybe 1% of what should be close to 50% of volume). All of the tubes glow evenly and the Krank is VERY rarely moved anywhere, never dropped or smoked around. The closest thing I can describe it as, if you ever had a guitar that had connection issues, you know the sound of it semi-connecting to the amp giving only a small sample of what is being pushed out by the pick-ups. My guitar works just fine and I know all the cables are fine, so logically the only thing that is left is the Krankenstein.

Before I take it in to get repaired and probably shell out a couple hundred for the repairs, I wanted to know if anyone on here has the knowledge of possibly if anyone has experienced such a problem or has any idea what I could do to get this problem fixed.

[solidxsnake]

If you're not scared of pulling the amp apart, do so. Check the solder joints on the speaker-output jacks.

QC'd = Quality Control(ed). Basically, how well a device is inspected at factory before shipment.

The tubes in any tube amp should always glow. When you flip the amp on (but leave it on standby) the poweramp and preamp tube filaments will start to glow, as power is being applied to the heating elements to warm up the tubes. When the standby switch is flipped to put the amp into it's fully-on state, signal will start to be sent through the tubes and the amp should start working.

Try cleaning the pots on the amp. Turn it off (or on, doesn't matter) and turn all of them all the way up and down vigorously for a little bit. This has the potential to loosen up any dirt built up inside the pot.

Otherwise, I'd try switching the tubes out and around (try the ones you have in different combinations and see what happens). For the record, Sovtek tubes are garbage, from my experience as well as most others I've talked to. JJ-Tubes are my favorite.