Ramblings From Justin Penney

Not that anyone cares much but me. It had gotten really brittle and fuzzy in the power amp section. I thought it was toast. I was on a bass forum looking for replacement suggestions and a guy brought up the existence of a bias pot on the SVT-3 Pro. I had no idea that there was any biasing on solid state amps but there it was. A little black and white trim pot. As I twisted the knob this little guy sprung back to life, the low end came back the fizzy sound on top of everything went away, it's back to being perfect. When it started having the problem I really went through it pretty thoroughly. I checked the horn (since there was the high end distortion), replaced the preamp tubes, reattached the speaker port, blew out 10 years of dust and crap, cleaned it all up, fixed the dents in the grill. Still sounded like butt. That's when I bought the Ashdown, but that just does not work for me. Of course after cleaning it up I tried it at practice with the Silvermen once and in that trip... I lost a knob. over 10 freaking years of being beat around and it had all the knobs then after I show it attention bam... missing knob. I also broke one of the EQ sliders on my SVT-350. I fully blame Rich from Pendergast, he commented on the fact that I had all my sliders. Well... now I don't!