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23 May 2011

Amp/ PA repair

Filed Under : Rants , Gear

Posted By : Andy Mack | Comments : 8

Help!!! My old repair guy has gone- need a new one Wigan area Quick!

I have a small Active PA speaker I use all the time for more smaller gigs- its been dying for a while and finally went tonight!!!! BOLLOCKS!!!!! Anyone know of anyone who can do the repairs!!

Symptoms- :-(

Previously harsh buzz from vocal bass- that continued into microphonics and did not stop till power shut off- this was controllable until tonight where its actually just making a humm noise now when powered up

HELP!!!!

cheers!

Comments

# Posted by MAXIMUM TORQUE - 23/05/2011, 20:42 (GMT)

Give Barry or John a call at Gee Electronics on 0151 228 2280 just at the end of the M62 at Liverpool.

# Posted by Prairie Dogs - 23/05/2011, 23:17 (GMT)

Ring Rolland In Salford best in the busines and good rates tell 01617878082

# Posted by jeni - 24/05/2011, 09:11 (GMT)

SAI Underground in Chorley is good, not got the number to hand tho, sorry.

# Posted by Andy Mack - 24/05/2011, 09:49 (GMT)

Just looked it up - cheers for that Jeni- will be making some phone calls at dinner time!!!

# Posted by Andy Mack - 24/05/2011, 09:54 (GMT)

Iys the old MA Amps bloke- from Standish= brilliant!

# Posted by The Kasuals Solid Sixties Musi... - 24/05/2011, 10:29 (GMT)

Mick Atherton (MA AMPS) is no longer working with Frank at Underground SAI so you might find getting items repaired somewhat difficult.

Lee :)

# Posted by Andy Mack - 24/05/2011, 10:35 (GMT)

Bugger!! any idea where Mick is??

# Posted by The Kasuals Solid Sixties Musi... - 24/05/2011, 11:49 (GMT)

The guy who both my father & I use is first class, unfortunately he is based out in Catforth north of Preston, a bit a of a trek.

He is the only guy I know of who could repair Mackie speakers, everybody else I spoke to said you have to send the complete amp/module back to Mackie and they will send you a replacment at the cost of £180.00 (SR1530's)..........Ouch was the word.

Anyway, spoke to Ste, no probs leave it with me. By the end of the week he had spoken to Mackie USA had the part shipped over and all done & dusted for the deal of the century price of £50.00. Happy days.

Another job he did for me last year was to sort out a Peavey Reknown 1x12 160w combo that I had bough second hand off eBay, it worked ok but the volume pot was either on or off, I also wanted a direct to speaker DI fitted.

Ste repaired the suspect volume pot, cleaned all the others fitted a direct DI input, also, whilst he was trying the amp out he noticed there was slght distorsion coming from the speaker when the sound dissapted, he removed the Scorpion speaker to find the cone had become oval and was rubbing on the other part of the speaker causing this sound issue. Now most shops/repairers would tell you that you need a new speaker, not Ste, he removed the speaker, removed the cone and re-shaped and then re-fitted it in to the speaker.

That amp is being used every weekend and sometimes midweek all over the UK by my fathers and has been faultless ever since, the price I was charged was agian, £50.00.

Ste also restores AC30's and other vlave equipment, I know he just finished a complete restore of an old Fender Rhodes, Ste currently has a Wharfedale PM, a mid 70's Fender Twin and a couple of valve effect pedals of mine that he is repariing, thankfully I wont be expecting any massive bills that you get when having shops repair stuff.

Lee :)

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