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Offline clyde

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6G6-A Grid Blocking?
« on: October 01, 2016, 04:19:03 pm »
This one has me stumped.  All new tubes, everything seems to spec inside the amp.  When you strum hard with the volume and bass up on the Bass channel, the signal seems to disappear and then is distorted.  I lowered the value of the grid resistor on stage 3 to 470k from 1M and it helped but didn't completely stop it.  The normal channel is unaffected.  It has to be an extremely loud transient to make it happen.  Under rather more normal playing the amp sounds killer.  The bass control doesn't seem to be very effective as well, not sure if this is part and parcel of it.  Thanks.


http://el34world.com/charts/Schematics/files/fender/Fender_BASSMAN_6G6A.pdf

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Re: 6G6-A Grid Blocking?
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2016, 11:06:00 pm »
Voltages on that Bass channel first tube?

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Re: 6G6-A Grid Blocking?
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2016, 08:16:07 am »
P1 (G2)- 153v, C1- 1.5v, P2- 276v, C2- 155v.  Thanks again. 

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Re: 6G6-A Grid Blocking?
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2016, 08:08:12 am »

Bump before page 2 obscurity.

 


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