Savage Amplifier

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Saw this today...never heard of them.  Not much info out there.

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Looks pretty nice..kinda like a red 5150 combo

 

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Looks like it's from here:  https://savageamps.com/the-amps

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They def seem kinda pricey 

Edit: they are handwired tube amps supposed to be really good high quality amps.  So $600 seems like a decent price compared to what I see on reverb and gc.  I'm guessing the model I saw is a blitz 50

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Btw please accept my apology I wasn't thinking when I posted this (like most of the time) and given it's a tube amp this thread needs to be deleted or moved to player's corner...anyhow thanks for your patience 

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HT stands for High Tension, the fuse will be in line with the highest B+ supply line.  Usually there is a turn on surge of current so they use slow-blow fuses.  As they are marked S.B., a fast blow will likely not handle the turn on surge.
Check that fuse you took out of the HT spot, if it is really a 0.5A, I don't think it would power up the amp like it did.

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Ok thanks I put 0.5A and 2A normal fuses in and it's making good sounds but won't make any sound without standby on.

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Thanks for the help I better turn this guy off until I get the correct fuses.

It doesn't get very dirty..dirty enough I suppose but the cleans are pretty sweet 🎂

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Ok thanks I put 0.5A and 2A normal fuses in and it's making good sounds but won't make any sound without standby on

I think you are reading the switch wrong, up the amp is on and down the amp is in standby.

Slow blow fuses can also be marked with a "T" it stands for Trög which means slow in some languages. ie. T2A

That polarity switch has me wondering if that amp might be unsafe, if it switches the incoming supply wires around and there is no earth wire on the lead you might have to fix that.
It don't seem old enough for that though
Read up on death caps to check it out.

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Thank you sir

Somehow I accidentally deleted the NAD post where I brought it home.
Last thing I need is a big heavy combo amp but alas it's not going anywhere.
The sound is heavenly and I need to be playing thru it as it will only help and I can't cover up sloppy playing with teh brootal distortionz.
 
I read about some people jumping channels I'm not brave enough for that.
The downside is I'm a total chorus nut so I gotta bust out my long dormant Ibanez chorus flanger pedal to add some glassy shimmering icepick aspect.
It's definitely not a block logo 5150 that I had but I like that I don't have to put the second volume knob on 0.000000001 to play it at the house. 
But I also dont have instant crunch berries on demand.
 

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So I dragged all my pedals out and the little power supply I had always used

Could not get a single pedal light to come on

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Next checked it with multimeter read about 18v... idk...

Ok opened a brand new 9v...first try no go...trying to remove the battery I guess it was so rusty it ripped the neg terminal off the battery

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So I went back to trying all of them with the wall wart continuously trying to turn it on and off to no avail.

Oh well guess I should play my pedals more than letting them gather dust in a drawer.

Matter of fact last time I used one it had issues but eventually got to working.

 

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I am not surprised that the wall wart did not power the pedals, the polarity is wrong on the plug.
The center pin should be minus and the ring should be plus at 9vDC, your power supply is the opposite.
I hope you have not damaged the pedals with the wrong power supply.

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Man THANK YOU SIR !! for pointing that out.

I was at work all day and when I got home I ransacked the house looking for a wall wart with a terminal matching the one in this pic from last May

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The one I tried to use yesterday had a 90 deg on the end of it.  I chased down a couple desktop lamps...no.
Kept looking and finally found it in the bottom of a drawer under a bunch of stuff.

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What's crazy is I got this from my friend's junk store told him I needed a 9v adapter he had a mountain of them and handed me this one and I can promise you we were not cognizant of polarity.

Unless...and this was almost twenty years ago...it's possible I had a pedal with me and tried one until it worked...idk...

 

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I was anxious to try them and haven't tried to play through them but the light comes on in three
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And I couldn't get the chainsaw pedal to light up but it hasn't been connected to an amplifier at least since the early 90s

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They are a bunch of old ordinary pedals but I hope they still work.

Thanks again 👍

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Nm teh dreaded chainsaw liveth 

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It almost knocked me out too

I had it on the lead channel
I wanted to hear what it would do to the clean channel (of my audition chorus )

I made sure to turn all the volume knobs on the amp all of the way off
I'm standing there and I push the channel select button and I'm hit with the loudest noise I have ever heard 

So I reached down and turned down the output knob on the pedal which had been fully clockwise....duh 🤣 o

 

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Most pedals will not turn on unless you have the input jack plugged in, and it has to be a mono plug as well.
The input jack is acting like the power switch as well to preserve the battery when you are not using the pedal.

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Thank you sir seems like from what I have read that you enjoy pedals.  Now I understand why because I had gotten away from them as too much trouble but I have a renewed interest in them now I really had fun playing through all of them last night.

I need some help dialing in the delay pedal though I couldn't seem to get happy with my attempt to obtain a good setting.  It also has echo which gets out of hand quickly