Rebel 30 users - questions

[bonedish]

So I was in my local GC today and had the great fortune and opportunity of playing the Tweaker, Rebel 30 (which I used to own), and the Renegade - all side by side, and all in the GC isolated amp room. Long story short, the Rebel 30 is IT for me. This was also the case a few months back before I sold my combo. I just kept having preamp tubes burn out on me. New and old tubes. I had it in my local tech shop 3 times (2-3 weeks each time - over a 6 month period) and the diagnosis from the amp tech was always the same - bad PI tube, blown fuse. The tech was even nice enough to test all of my preamp tubes for me the 2nd and 3rd times, and all tested great. No matter what I did, the same problem kept happening. Thank God for Egnater's incredible patience and customer service through these times, but in the end I felt like I had to sell it, as it was costing me time (in shop) and money (for tubes). Please know that at this time, the Rebel 30 was my one and only amp. No back up amps on hand.

So here are my questions:


Are there still existent issues with the Rebel 30?

Anyone have the same or remotely similar problem as I was having?

Has the QC gotten better now that it's been a year?


I don't know how Bruce and the boys make great tone so effortlessly and at such an affordable price. And then they top it off with a personal touch of beyond excellent customer service.

I really want, no, NEED another Rebel 30. This is *THE* tone I have been looking for, the "be all, end all" for me.

Please help me out with some good news?

 

[bonedish]

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Another question: have people who own the Rebel 30 heads been having issues?

Would a different style combo cab make a difference in relation to the tube issues I had?

Thanks again!

 

[JeepGuy04]

Hey,

I've owned a Rebel 30 1X12 Combo since May 2010. I think it is a good amp and I haven't had any issues with it thus far. I only use it about twice a week because I have a toddler here who likes to turn knobs and switches basically anything he can get his hands on so unfortunately I keep it covered up and out of the way and play thru my old amp to practice...

My serial # starts with 0909 so I'm guessing that means it was built September 09 and I am not aware of any persistent rebel 30 issues here on these forums. Some people have tube problems etc but I don't think there is one thing that is a plagues the whole line as far as I can see.

They have a 3 year warranty (90 on the tubes) so I would say buy it

 

[musicmanmu]

I've had my Rebel 30 head since around Nov/Dec 2009, and the only issue I've had is the power tubes crapping out on me within a month. Retubed it with quality power tubes, and I've been rockin' ever since. Although, I probably should retube it soon.

At any rate, I've never had a preamp tube problem. I replaced a few preamp tubes to give my amp a bit more gain (used Chinese tubes on suggestion of a HC form-goer), and it worked like a charm.

I don't know if the combos are just made to less stringent quality or not, but all the issues I keep hearing about are from combo owners, not head owners. So, get yourself the head version and a cab. It's more versatile that way anyway!

 

[jpfeifer]

I've had my Rebel 30 combo now for a few months, and so far so good. I did have some AC hum issues earlier but it turned out to be a noisy power supply in my effects loop. Since I made this switch to a VooDoo labs Pedal Power for my effects, the amp has been very quiet.
I've been using it for a weekly church gig and also an oldies band that I play with. With the oldies band, we played a show recently at a large indoor hall and the amp sounded superb, especially with the 1x12 extension (fantastic surf tones, etc)

I'm still fairly new with this amp, but I agree with you as far as the tone. This amp sounds better than anything I've ever had before. The clean tone is amazingly good and perfect for country, surf music, blues, etc. The lead channel kicks butt too. I'm just now exploring some of the higher-gain tones in the lead channel.

--Jim