Mr H Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I bought an Orange Micro Terror guitar amp in March from Dawsons in Liverpool. Lovely thing, sounds great (I had a real guitarist try it out a week or so ago!), very pleased to have it around. Except yesterday I couldn't get any sound from it. There was the faintest ember glowing low down in the valve, but no sound at all. Tried the guitar and cable in a different amp, all good; tried a bass head into the Orange cab, which was fine; swapped the head-to-cab cable with a known-to-be-working one, still no sound. Arse. Interrogated the family to find out if there had been any unreported impact, but they all claimed innocence, so decided I'd have to take it back to the shop. When I finally found the receipt (I'd put it somewhere safe ... ) I noticed that they don't accept returns on failed valves after ninety days, so I checked the calendar. 91 days old. Double arse. Anyway, I phoned Dawsons, explained the trouble and the 91 days thing, and they told me to bring it in. The guy had a look at it, took it to a giant Blackstar cab, pulled a guitar down from the wall, wired everything up, and - BA-WO-O-O-O-OW!!! I had a look. That headphone output does look remarkably similar to the guitar input, doesn't it? D'oh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 LOL Luckily you didn't hurt the amp. Good on Dawsons for following through though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBus Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Senior moment. [size=4] [/size] [size=4]Been there. The magnetic pickup on my beloved Status Electro stopped working last year. Had to have some work done on the nut so thought I'd have the pickup looked at at the same time. Repairer asks what the control setup was. Two volumes and two tones I said with much confidence. He starts tapping away at pickups, as you do, and lots of sound from the mag and the piezo. "There's your problem" he says, "that's a blend pot not a volume". I'd had the bass for about two years by that time. I knew it had a blend pot. Not for the previous few weeks I didn't. And since when has Rob Green designed a bass with two volumes. Never to my knowledge. [/size] [size=4]It's a long slippery slope.[/size] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 [quote name='Mr H' timestamp='1371310305' post='2112457'] I bought an Orange Micro Terror guitar amp in March from Dawsons in Liverpool. Lovely thing, sounds great (I had a real guitarist try it out a week or so ago!), very pleased to have it around. Except yesterday I couldn't get any sound from it. There was the faintest ember glowing low down in the valve, but no sound at all. Tried the guitar and cable in a different amp, all good; tried a bass head into the Orange cab, which was fine; swapped the head-to-cab cable with a known-to-be-working one, still no sound. Arse. Interrogated the family to find out if there had been any unreported impact, but they all claimed innocence, so decided I'd have to take it back to the shop. When I finally found the receipt (I'd put it somewhere safe ... ) I noticed that they don't accept returns on failed valves after ninety days, so I checked the calendar. 91 days old. Double arse. Anyway, I phoned Dawsons, explained the trouble and the 91 days thing, and they told me to bring it in. The guy had a look at it, took it to a giant Blackstar cab, pulled a guitar down from the wall, wired everything up, and - BA-WO-O-O-O-OW!!! I had a look. That headphone output does look remarkably similar to the guitar input, doesn't it? D'oh. [/quote] Yikes! You sound like the guy who put a plug on the end of his guitar cable and went back to the shop for a refund because he couldn't get a sound out of it, even when he plugged it into the mains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 Erm, you mean there were dangers inherent in the act which I was not aware of? Oops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingBollock Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I did electronics at college and one of the other students threw a party at his house. There were about 30 people there, most of them also doing electronics. My lift turned up late, so we got there after everyone else. They were all looking rather gloomy... "We've got no music!" They cried, "The stereo won't turn on!" Went the lament. So the bloke who'd given me a lift had a quick look and plugged it in... The title of the thread reminded me of this: http://notalwaysright.com/ This is good, too: http://clientsfromhell.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 I love notalwaysright, and thought about it straightaway when the penny dropped in Dawsons. I even told them that I'd have the story of my idiocy online before the shop was closed and they had the chance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBob09 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 That's great. Glad you got it sorted. I did that years and years ago. I got in to a panic over how I didn't have anything coming out of my amp - Then realised the lead was in the wrong bloody socket! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Good story well told. At least you're not alone. I did the exact same thing with the exact same amp, and others told similar stories some time ago. That Micro Terror needs to be redesigned so Americans can use it. And I, maybe. best, bert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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