They also have notorious issues with bad solder joints cracking. Same as all the JCM 800-900 amps. My little practice one needed to be fixed so many times eventually I just changed a bunch of stuff so it would stop happening. Like using wired pots rather than the ones that mount directly to PCB.
If you have twitter or instagram hit me up in my DMs. I actually have a good story about this one but I don’t wanna share it publicly. @Mikeballingerx on twitter Actionmike2077 or Ballingeramplification for Instagram
You may be thinking about the earlier 8100 valvestate which the vs100 replaced...the tube in the 8100 only works on the od channel, whereas the tube even works on the clean channel on these vs100's...I replaced the stock ecc83 in mine with an older groove tubes 7025 and saw a big improvement in both tone and background noise
Potting? Like a resin? I'm not sure I've heard the term before. I typically use silicone. OR if it's really that much of an issue, they sell mounting brackets. however that would require drilling holes into the chassis to mount said brackets. But they definitely don't let the capacitors move at all.
Yup that’s pretty much what it’s doing. Although I never tried to take out the tube and play the amp. I own one of these as well. It’s the combo version of this. I use it as a practice amp now. I did notice that when I changed the tube in mine it didn’t sound any different. In my view, these are just normal solid state amps with a gimmick.
I used to have that model….the tube is being used as a diode. You can even remove it from the circuit and the tone doesn’t change
They also have notorious issues with bad solder joints cracking. Same as all the JCM 800-900 amps. My little practice one needed to be fixed so many times eventually I just changed a bunch of stuff so it would stop happening.
Like using wired pots rather than the ones that mount directly to PCB.
If you have twitter or instagram hit me up in my DMs. I actually have a good story about this one but I don’t wanna share it publicly.
@Mikeballingerx on twitter
Actionmike2077 or Ballingeramplification for Instagram
You may be thinking about the earlier 8100 valvestate which the vs100 replaced...the tube in the 8100 only works on the od channel, whereas the tube even works on the clean channel on these vs100's...I replaced the stock ecc83 in mine with an older groove tubes 7025 and saw a big improvement in both tone and background noise
Would uou recomend putting some potting around the caps so they dont move under vibration.
Potting? Like a resin? I'm not sure I've heard the term before. I typically use silicone. OR if it's really that much of an issue, they sell mounting brackets. however that would require drilling holes into the chassis to mount said brackets. But they definitely don't let the capacitors move at all.
Yup that’s pretty much what it’s doing. Although I never tried to take out the tube and play the amp. I own one of these as well.
It’s the combo version of this. I use it as a practice amp now. I did notice that when I changed the tube in mine it didn’t sound any different.
In my view, these are just normal solid state amps with a gimmick.
I HAVE 0NE 0F THESE, THE 0D2 CHANNEL CRUSHES F0R TIGHT SATURATED M0DERN METAL, STATIC-X AND PR0NG USED THESE...
Nice! I have a small practice amp
Combo version of the Valvestate. I can definitely see these amps pulling of that crazy high gain sound.