vibro champ volume drop

gotzz · November 8th, 2009, 08:42 AM

hello!
I've put new electrolytic caps including the cap can and when I tried vibrato the overall volume of the amp dropped a bit. tried to change the vibrato and preamp tube but no luck. here's the sound sample, hope you'll hear the difference - http://www.box.net/shared/nz5r23uch2

and this is the cap kit I bought...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fender-Vibro-Cha...item5ad2af5821

any thoughts what it might be?

mistermullens · November 8th, 2009, 09:41 AM

Mine has a slight volume drop when the Vibrato is kicked in. I think thats common with these amps. I'm not aware of a "fix", but there are plenty of VC owners/gurus on this forum so someone else will chime in.

gotzz · November 10th, 2009, 05:06 AM

thanks mistermullens!
can anybody else of you VC owners confirm that?

Groovey Records · November 10th, 2009, 05:34 AM

I had a lot of VC's I've never noticed it.

Is it more pronounced live rather than the mp3?

SamBooka · November 10th, 2009, 10:54 AM

Hate to go OT but Groovey?Why have you had a lot of VCs? I got one a couple of years ago. Love it. Never getting rid of it :)

nogin007 · November 10th, 2009, 11:30 AM

Mine has a volume drop when I use the vibrato. I have read in numerous threads that this is common with the amps.

November 8th, 2009, 08:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
gotzz TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: croatia Age: 25 Posts: 53	vibro champ volume drop hello! I've put new electrolytic caps including the cap can and when I tried vibrato the overall volume of the amp dropped a bit. tried to change the vibrato and preamp tube but no luck. here's the sound sample, hope you'll hear the difference - http://www.box.net/shared/nz5r23uch2 and this is the cap kit I bought... http://cgi.ebay.com/Fender-Vibro-Cha...item5ad2af5821 any thoughts what it might be?

November 8th, 2009, 09:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
mistermullens Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Atlanta Age: 33 Posts: 3,780 36 Photos	Mine has a slight volume drop when the Vibrato is kicked in. I think thats common with these amps. I'm not aware of a "fix", but there are plenty of VC owners/gurus on this forum so someone else will chime in. __________________ Jonathan ReverbNation Twitter Teles & Esquires

November 10th, 2009, 10:54 AM	#5 (permalink)
SamBooka Tele-Holic Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Montreal Age: 39 Posts: 630	Hate to go OT but Groovey?Why have you had a lot of VCs? I got one a couple of years ago. Love it. Never getting rid of it :) __________________ I used to be DH82c but I changed so the 'copters wont spot me

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November 10th, 2009, 05:06 AM	#3 (permalink)
gotzz TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: croatia Age: 25 Posts: 53	thanks mistermullens! can anybody else of you VC owners confirm that?

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