RideTheCrash
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I think I may have exploded my Epiphone Valve Junior head...
I am restoring an old Farfisa Fast 4 organ, so I have it in various pieces (for cleaning purposes) and it's missing some inside brackets to hold up the top part with the voice rocker tabs that also has the power switch. I was using the organ in this state (and have been on and off for a bit now) with a piece of the siding propping up this middle piece (with the power switch) so that the wires soldered to the jack wouldn't make metal contact with the metal bars connected to the keys below (because otherwise POOF, I have done it twice now by accident).
I was changing some cords on my amp (Epipy head with it's matching cab) and accidentally knocked this piece off the organ, dropping the power switch onto the metal key things and POOF again, except this time the organ and amp were on and now whenever I turn on the amp head, regardless if something is hooked to it or not, it just freaks out and makes terrible dirty pot/chirping/sci-fi sounds that get really loud and it gives me signal from whatever is plugged in.
I'm a retard I know, but I've never tinkered inside a tube amp before (because I would probably kill myself with the luck I've been having this month) so how !@#$ed am I? Did I blow up something in the amp...or did I just kill the tubes? I can post pictures if needed.
UPDATE -- Also, there was no black puff of smoke from the amp or any noticeable smell.
I am restoring an old Farfisa Fast 4 organ, so I have it in various pieces (for cleaning purposes) and it's missing some inside brackets to hold up the top part with the voice rocker tabs that also has the power switch. I was using the organ in this state (and have been on and off for a bit now) with a piece of the siding propping up this middle piece (with the power switch) so that the wires soldered to the jack wouldn't make metal contact with the metal bars connected to the keys below (because otherwise POOF, I have done it twice now by accident).
I was changing some cords on my amp (Epipy head with it's matching cab) and accidentally knocked this piece off the organ, dropping the power switch onto the metal key things and POOF again, except this time the organ and amp were on and now whenever I turn on the amp head, regardless if something is hooked to it or not, it just freaks out and makes terrible dirty pot/chirping/sci-fi sounds that get really loud and it gives me signal from whatever is plugged in.
I'm a retard I know, but I've never tinkered inside a tube amp before (because I would probably kill myself with the luck I've been having this month) so how !@#$ed am I? Did I blow up something in the amp...or did I just kill the tubes? I can post pictures if needed.
UPDATE -- Also, there was no black puff of smoke from the amp or any noticeable smell.
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