[porsche911girl]

Well I took my amp to the amp guy at Sam Ash (hey, don't yell at me, it went well).

He quickly solved the 'no reverb' problem straight away by pointing out that my reverb tube had a crack in it, so d'oh of course it wasn't working! I stood there feeling like a huge idiot.

He found a replacement reverb tube for it, installed it, and turned the amp on and it sounded great. The reverb sounds like Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" sound...very sweet, pure, and clean.

Then he opened the amp up to check the transformers, caps, etc, and checked the bias on it. It was running a bit high, around 41-42, and he told me it should be in the mid-upper 30s range, so he lowered it to 35, and tried it. I couldn't tell a difference in sound/tone quality, still sounded good to me.

He also showed me detailed schematics of the Fender Deluxe AB763 (I think) circuitry and explained what each of the tubes did, which was very helpful. I must've spent close to an hour and a half there, talking about amps and the various mods he can do to them (he custom-builds tube amps). He's got me thinking of adding a mid-boost kit with a push/pull knob to control both the middle-tone control and the mid-boost separately on one knob.

We also share a love of classic and vintage cars as well, he's quite knowledgable about them as well; he drives a 1966 Mustang coupe.

But the best part of the whole thing? He didn't charge me a thing! I think he likes me, but it could be cos there probably aren't too many young girls with vintage tube amps who come there...

Anyway, just thought I'd let you all know of the status of my amp. I think it sounds better than ever now, and if I had the proper equipment, I'd record some riffs thru it and post them on here.