Hi everyone.... I'm new here so.... I'm Ronnie, I live in Kent, Uk. Nice to meet you all.

Funny little story:

I took my amp into a sparkie's a while ago for problems with the volume pot. The clean channel's volume was really unstable, raising and dropping randomly. He ordered a propper Fender pot from the states and had it shipped back to the UK, replaced it (and the worrying part) never charged me. When I went to pick it up, he seemed to have forgotten all about the volume pot and said "I've looked at your amp. There was a little bit of a loose solder connection so I just resoldered it for you."

He was a little on the old side, and I have a feeling he may have been missing 1 or 2 of his marbles. He didn't charge me as he said the solder wasn't worth the effort of opening the till and said see how the amp goes.

The problem.... I then moved 130 miles away a couple of weeks later and never had time to use the amp (I know I should have checked but I had a lot on with moving). This was 6 years ago!! (I've been using my old 30 watt practice amp in this time as it's small and more friendly for the neighbours.) I've just been asked to join a band and start gigging properly again and the amp is (for lack of a better word) BUGGERED!

When you turn the amp on, the overdrive channel light is on, even when the amp is on the clean channel. When you press the button for the overdrive channel, the light stays on.... and the amp stays on the clean channel. I would have worded that to say that nothing happens.... but something does. A very painful electric shock through the finger.

I've taken the amp apart and there's a massive wadd of solder underneath where it looks like the circuit on the board was cut and he's piled solder on to replace the board's paths.

I know he must have crossed a path here somewhere but although I can locate this on the diagram that came with the amp, this is a little over my head!!

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!!!

Sorry this was so long.