Hello dudes. This is just a basic general thread created to see if any of you may be able to offer advice or make a diagnosis so that I can get the problem remedied as soon as possible with very little trouble.
SO YEAH.
Played a show at the "famous" Blind Pig last night and my amp was like BLOOAARRRNNCCCHHHH. It's a Fender Blues Deluxe, USA, tweed style, 40W. I usually put it at about 2 on the clean channel for practice and shows... loud enough. But last night there was barely any volume at 2, and when I turned it up to like 3.5, it was louder, but the tone was distorted and almost like fucked-up digital sounding. So I kept my Big Muff on most of the time (which is TBT anyway), but when I cut that and just did some clean stuff, the sound was still just, you know, broken sounding.
I put new tubes in it (3 Sovtek preamps and 2 Groove Tube power tubes) at the beginning of the year or so... and they sounded greated. I played it again today, just like aroudn 3 or so, with my Squier Tele and Les Paul... sounds cleaner than it did last night, but still distorted when I play harder/louder.
Do speakers on amps die or blow all that often? Do you think it's a loose tube or a dead one? What happens when tubes die? I noticed that all of them are glowing orange straight down the line, with no anomalies.
Might be silly to ask for a diagnosis on it... but what do you think? It's a solid amp... so this is weird.
Anyway... thanks!
C