I'm new here and new to Egnater

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I just bought a Tourmaster 4212 and it had issues, I called egnater and talked to Nate, he said ship it and pay for return shipping and we will make it right.

Now That is serious customer service !!!

Got me looking hard at a Rebel 30 also.

I like supporting business that values their customers and their reputation !!!

And hey shimmilou, glad to find you here.
 
I had a 4212 for years- loved it. Eventually found it a little too heavy. Had a Rebel 30 for about a week but it wasn't enough amp for me. Got the Renegade and love it!
 
It is a big old Beast !

Like a twin on steroids, I just can't wait to go through all of its tonal options, I might have to lock myself in the music room for a few days.

So far this site seems fairly under control, Mostly adult I would say.

That makes for a far greater learning experience when reading others posts
 
Hi blues bondsman, good to see you too. :)

I've learned a lot here already myself. Please keep us informed about your amp progress. I am really interested to know what happened to the tranny, did they have problems with them as other sites have described, or what. :rock:
 
Hey shimmilou

Not much traffic here ? very few postings from what I see.

The trouble with my amp was that it kept blowing the fuse at the power plug, and blowing it in a big way.

Must have been a major short somewhere, I'm guessing thats why Nate asked me to just ship it to him.

I'm wondering if Egnater is regretting the China connection ??? However making them here would most likely add 30 to 40 % to the price.
 
apparently there was an issue with the earlier tourmaster power plant power transformers. as far as i know, if you dont have an "m" before your serial number, it means the amp wasn't "stock" modded.

some of the older TMs were modded aftermarket to the tourmaster "version 2- "" M "" " mod, but won't show it on the serial number.

the mod involves a new power plant, and some different components replacing older ones on the circuit board to tighten up the gain and bass and take some of the harshness out of the treble.

i did half of the "M" tone mod. and am waiting on a new power transformer. hopefully soon! they got mine on tuesday, so, for what i understand, Nate is pretty expedient about getting new PT's out to people!

one thing i WILL recommend to you, if you own the combo, and if you have ANY ability to solder, open your chassis, follow the reverb driver wires from underneath (theres only 4 of them i think) onto the board where they just slide onto those spade clip type attachments..and solder them hard to the spade clips that they're attached to on board. one of the wires on my amp vibrated off and it took me FOREVER to figure out what was causing me to not have reverb, so when i found it, i soldered them all on. i may even solder all my PT wires on the spade clips too when i reinstall it.
 
Combos and vibration, ya gotta love it !
I do believe I'm going to start to work on a collection (small one) of heads and speaker cabs.
Ya don't have to set a head on the cab LOL !!!
Buzzed apart solder joints and rattl'n cabs are getting old real fast.
I do hope to get this one back together soon, i still have a little hearing left to destroy, HA !!!
 
Carfeul when you open the Tourmaster. The fan is connected to the part that you remove. Believe me, it is easy to yank it too hard and break the connecting wires!
 
The fan had a simple pull apart connector in the middle of the wiring, no trouble at all.

I wonder what the turn around time is for Egnater, they have had it for at least two business days now LOL !!!!
 
blues bondsman":1hx36prc said:
...I do believe I'm going to start to work on a collection (small one) of heads and speaker cabs.
...Buzzed apart solder joints and rattl'n cabs are getting old real fast...
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Definitely! Not to mention the pounding that tubes get in a combo, being only inches away from the speakers. I started my collection of heads to replace my combos. I got a Carvin X-100B head to replace my HRDvl 4x10 combo, and an Egnater Tweaker 40 head to replace my HRDlx 1x12 combo. I would also like to get a smaller 15 watt 6V6 head, even though the BJr is small enough to carry, as I'm really enjoying the separate head and speakers better than most combos. The closed back speaker cabs that I use with the heads are probably much of the difference in sound. :rock:
 
Ya and much easier to play with different sounding speakers !
I would like two or three 2x12 cabs and even one good 1x12
 
blues bondsman":igkquyvo said:
The fan had a simple pull apart connector in the middle of the wiring, no trouble at all.

I wonder what the turn around time is for Egnater, they have had it for at least two business days now LOL !!!!
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Boy I wish I had know that! :D :lol: :LOL: :doh: :cry:
 
I hear ya, i was just trying to re solder a piezo pickup on an older USA Ovation Balladeer, wish i had known how junky and fragile they were, now I have no pickup and no saddles.
CHEAP !!!! JUNK !!!
and absolutely NO customer service or parts availability.
Egnater Customer service is Top Rate ! Ovation....... Not So Much !
 
The Tourmaster Cab (without chassis) is staring at me, making me nervous.

It keeps saying where is my head !!!! :D

O.K. its only been a little over a week.
 
Nate said it was done and would ship out this week !!!!

I can't wait to get to hear this beast, i've been plugging a VHT special 6 head into the speakers, pretty amazing for a single 6V6 and one 12AX7.

Its getting close to Outdoor gig season too, I'm going to accept a few more invites to play this year I'm betting the power divider is going to come in handy !!!
 
Well do !
I never heard from them, so i don't know if it shipped or not ???
My guess is its gonna sound pretty cool, lots of tonal tweeking available, it may take a few hours to find "it"
Glad to see ya 63 !
 
you're sweet spot for your master volume and channel volumes should be somewhere around 1-2pm on the dial.

remember, these amps like to SOUND huge with lower gain settings than you'd normally think....and react well with lower bass settings if the gain is above say..1pm. if the gain is below 1pm, you can adjust the bass to some really boomy levels, yet tight. i'm assuming this amp has been modded to "m" specs by nate?

you'll love it...channel 3 is a kick ass channel (overdrive 1)...and can do just about any sound you'd want.
 
Nate said they would "go through the amp" I assume it will be all up to date when it arrives.
I have heard the same advice many times over about this amp, I am not a high gain guy, i'm a blues Player so......
My guess is that its going to be way over the top as far as possible Gain goes.
My hope is to get great blues crunch and vintage Zeppelin tones.
Some days I do want to put on the spandex a wig and be a hair band Rock Star !!!!! LOL !!!!!!!
Its gonna be fun !!!
 
Well........
My chassis for the tourmaster showed up yesterday.
I had sent the Groove tubes with it to make sure they were not part of the problem, i wrapped them each in their own little bubble wrap blanket.
When I got them back thay were all together in a box and in a zillion pieces, the one pot on the back of the chassis was bent and the knob was found in the bottom of the box.
Must have taken a pretty hard hit !
They replaced the power transformer according to the invoice.
No replies to my e-mail about the tubes.
Lucky enough for me, i had some old missmatched 6l6's laying around so I could install the chassis and at least make sure it worked.
I guess I'll be out tube hunting on e-bay today.
So much for a glowing review (that I had really hoped to give) !!!
 
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