Ok, so my Engl plopped through the letter box this morning...
Had a quick go... basically:
The 'normal' channel doesnt work, i get sound but its not musical, its like noise, you can just about make out what note is being picked. This happens no matter how loud the Master vol is, or how high\low the gain is.
Its not me driving the channel, its just a mush of noise :( It reminds me of when i saw a band and mid solo the guitarists amp lost volume and just put out squeaky barely musical noise (that was a Mesa :P).
The UltraGain channel seems to work fine... the amp seemed to hum for a couple of minutes after power up, like the hum from a dodgy guitar cable (except no cable was attached and it still did it???), then it seemed to disappear. This channel seems to be ok, as it sounds good!
The Pre-amp valves look quite dark at the top, but the amp is new... i take it the amps been played a fair bit??
Not been able to open it cos i had work, but 1 valve at least looks black at the top, about 1/5 of it maybe more is blackened... the others are a bit dark on the top, but seems more silvery than black?
Any ideas? How do you know when valves are dead?
Pissed off with this, i phoned the shop i got it from but no answer, will try again later.
