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mrguano
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I believe that the Egnater Tweaker 40 is fantastic. I've had it for one week and as soon as I tried it I knew that this amp was perfect for me, and not only that, I thought that it was a piece of genius. All the great tones are here: you can get Marshall distortion and switch to a fender or Vox type clean channel. It's great fun to experiment with all the tweaking options and it's loud enough to gig without having to lug cabinets around. But...what a first week with it.
I had an H&K Tubemeister that was giving me ridiculous feedback and electric shocks. The clean channel was cold and useless and the overdrive channel had nowhere near enough distortion. I had to get a refund and find a replacement in one week to play my first gig with my new band having had to learn 30 new songs in a only a few weeks since the audition. I needed a shop with good options and a soundproof room in order to try the amp out. My nearest option was 3 and 1/2 hours drive away. Nevertheless, I found the Egnater and loved it. My amp nightmares were over.
In two days I had learned how to take advantage of the gorgeous overdrive and the footswitch with my pedals to give me everything I needed. Rehearsal was satisfying. The clean channel was loud!
Another rehearsal two days later the night before the gig. Half-way through and suddenly lots of noise, like interference. One song later and all sound was lost in my now fifth day with this new amp. I almost cried. My back-up amp would not cut it and would utterly spoil my first gig. So, I took the day off and drove 7 hours there and back to the shop I got it from. They were flummoxed and could only speculate about valves and fuses. The lights were on but all sound was gone. They tried another one from the same shipment. Woops, it sounded ill, a bit like mine had sounded initially. They dragged another from an earlier shipment. It has some marks on it, but it worked. They were apologetic and bunged in some nice Fender cables and some strings. I drove back and just had time to get some food and load up, get there, set-up and play my first gig for about 8 years.
So to get to the point: make no mistake this a work of genius and I love it. However, does anybody have any advice for me on how to cope with the things that may go wrong with it in the future, particularly, how to deal with fuse and tube problems quickly that other users may have already experienced - because I'm worried! And by the way, I think I will save in order to buy a second one just as a back-up but when I will have the money is a whole other story!!
I had an H&K Tubemeister that was giving me ridiculous feedback and electric shocks. The clean channel was cold and useless and the overdrive channel had nowhere near enough distortion. I had to get a refund and find a replacement in one week to play my first gig with my new band having had to learn 30 new songs in a only a few weeks since the audition. I needed a shop with good options and a soundproof room in order to try the amp out. My nearest option was 3 and 1/2 hours drive away. Nevertheless, I found the Egnater and loved it. My amp nightmares were over.
In two days I had learned how to take advantage of the gorgeous overdrive and the footswitch with my pedals to give me everything I needed. Rehearsal was satisfying. The clean channel was loud!
Another rehearsal two days later the night before the gig. Half-way through and suddenly lots of noise, like interference. One song later and all sound was lost in my now fifth day with this new amp. I almost cried. My back-up amp would not cut it and would utterly spoil my first gig. So, I took the day off and drove 7 hours there and back to the shop I got it from. They were flummoxed and could only speculate about valves and fuses. The lights were on but all sound was gone. They tried another one from the same shipment. Woops, it sounded ill, a bit like mine had sounded initially. They dragged another from an earlier shipment. It has some marks on it, but it worked. They were apologetic and bunged in some nice Fender cables and some strings. I drove back and just had time to get some food and load up, get there, set-up and play my first gig for about 8 years.
So to get to the point: make no mistake this a work of genius and I love it. However, does anybody have any advice for me on how to cope with the things that may go wrong with it in the future, particularly, how to deal with fuse and tube problems quickly that other users may have already experienced - because I'm worried! And by the way, I think I will save in order to buy a second one just as a back-up but when I will have the money is a whole other story!!
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. Can it be me? Could a faulty pedal in my chain do this to an amp or are they so poorly made that they just can't be transported? I guess they'll be sending me another one. And when then that breaks down?
