Amp repair

[Ken Byng]

My beloved Webb amp let me down in the studio a few weeks ago. I switched it on and the neon mains lamp flickered a few times and the amp expired on me. Very unusual, as the Webb has been utterly reliable since I purchased it new from Tom Bradshaw in the early 2000's. My long time friend and fellow steel player Danny Hughes from Pagham in W. Sussex is a first class electronics engineer, and he agreed immediately to check it out for me. He has some mightily sophisticated testing equipment in his workshop, and very soon had diagnosed that a large electrolytic capacitor was at fault as it had gone short circuit. I ordered a new pair of these components as once one has failed it's probably best to change both of them.

I took the new parts along with the amp back to Danny's and he very quickly had the old ones out and the new ones in. Danny also found a couple of problems with some of the sockets on the back of the amp's chassis, and there was obviously a problem with at least one of them too. When I got home, I plugged in the amp in my studio, and the first thing I noticed was how quiet the amp was. It was hum-free and there was no hiss. He had done a great repair, and I'm a very happy camper. Here is Danny checking out my amp on my first visit to him. Thanks Danny - you're a star mate!

[hickenjr]

Sweet, love the sound of those Webbs!

I've finally gone and got myself a good steel amp too.

[Ken Byng]

It's a great amp Steven. It has often been described as sounding like a Fender Twin on steroids!

I love valve amps, but I don't love the cost of replacement valves or the regularity that they need to be changed. I used to swear by RCA valves but they are really hard to get hold of and the price is prohibitive.

[hickenjr]

It's a great amp Steven. It has often been described as sounding like a Fender Twin on steroids!

I love valve amps, but I don't love the cost of replacement valves or the regularity that they need to be changed. I used to swear by RCA valves but they are really hard to get hold of and the price is prohibitive.

In recent years, solid state has started to sound really great and to be honest...always has for steel anyway with the old Peaveys.

As someone who has moved to the new Quilter amps...it blows my Twin Reissue away and it also won't blow a disk in my back.

[Ken Byng]

It's a great amp Steven. It has often been described as sounding like a Fender Twin on steroids!

I love valve amps, but I don't love the cost of replacement valves or the regularity that they need to be changed. I used to swear by RCA valves but they are really hard to get hold of and the price is prohibitive.

In recent years, solid state has started to sound really great and to be honest...always has for steel anyway with the old Peaveys.

As someone who has moved to the new Quilter amps...it blows my Twin Reissue away and it also won't blow a disk in my back.

I have always found that Peavey steel guitar amps to be generally very reliable. In fact some are built like tanks. But they all have inherent mid range honk that needs to be dialled out via the parametric EQ. I have only found one Peavey amp that sounds great, and I have owned 9 of them. I love their Valve King 2 x 12" 100w amp for steel - no issues with pronounce mid honk whatsoever. Likewise the Webb is very easy to dial in the required tone with its Bass, Middle, Treble and Presence controls, plus a 3-way EQ switch and a 5 way sub fine EQ bank of controls that can be switched in or out.