[Steve[_3_]]

"Robin G" wrote in message
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Maybe the same problem I had on my piece?

But first, what is fake about the tube stage?

It's a "starved plate design". Older tube equipment used to run the tube
plates at 300+ Volts. The new fake "toob" stuff uses more like 24 Volts to
simulate that warm sound (which is not really the sound it used to sound
like).

(apart from the "design
for the suckers" orange LED enlightment of the tube)

Exactly. Pump 300+ volts through just about anything and it will glow
orange with minimal assistance. :-)


And, second, the input meter is wired before your "toob" meter and of
course also before the tube stage.

I understood that.


But anyway, the input meter is located on a separate board mounted
above the VU meter. Try wigling it, my card had some bad connection
with the motherbord and lit up when I did.

I did. It did nothing. I found when I touched it in some places the meter
pegged (the tube meter did nothing, I assume I was connecting the supply
voltage to that PCB to the meter with my finger).


And also, while you have the lid of, check that the power cables to
the frontpanel switch is as far away as possible from the left input
stage...

Checked all connections and made sure everything was okay. Thanks for the
help! :-)

Cheers;
Steve


Good luck!
Robin