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Try swapping all the preamp tubes, they're probably not doing you any good. 90% likely to fix the squeal, 50% to fix or mitigate the hiss. After that, take it in for service. They do need check-ups, just like cars.

I can vouch for the SX. I bought two, a P/J and a P. I intended to swap the necks and give the P to my brother (I couldn't get the finish/neck options I wanted on the PJ), but the parts weren't interchangible without surgery. I set up both, with a little work with the nut slot, they both...

If you're in the US, email dougstubes or thetubestore. Those guys will know better than I about your amp's preferences.

12ax7 is a tube type, not a brand.

*shrugs* I have used a ton of gain, really dense sound, never a problem. Like I said, if your signal volume is 100dB+, what difference does it make if you have 70dB of noise? If yo have the gate up high enough to get rid of all that, it will chop off the notes when they get down into that buzz...

I secretly work for the all-powerful computer monitor and keyboard sales lobby.

Ah well, could have been a fraud. Somebody that knew enough to go into details about cone construction and fabric generations didn't know they had misplaced the decimal point in the price? Unlikely.

A retube may be in order. If you can reach the tubes, tap on them with a pencil eraser while the amp is on and turned up, either no guitar or volume off. If the vibration is translated to output through the speakers, you found a bad tube. How old is this thing anyway? You may just want to take...

Get the amp sounding good. Put the 57 in front of the speaker. Try a lot of different positions for the mic. By "a lot," I mean somewhere from 3 feet back to touching the grille, anywhere in front of the speaker, at any angle fro straight to nearly parallel with the grille. A good starting point...

The entry level Variax feels a little slapped-together, but the other models feel pretty good. Also, Warmouth makes replacement parts, so if you scored one on eBay, you could get a new body and a neck to taste. I'd try to get my hands on one, just to see.

That's not feedback! That's just noise. IME, with a high-gain amp, there's going to be noise, but it is still (usually) insignificant compared to playing volume. The marketing of noise gates has always exceeded the technology. All they do is attenuate below a given signal strength. If your noise...

For 25k, it had better include some licks from Valerie.

Keep in mind, the combo predates the modular stack. Gigging musicians (or at least roadies) demanded the amps be broken up into more manageable pieces, and the manufacturers responded. If your effects are in one case, the "plugging in" would amount to, at most...

Your gate is probably unnecessary as well. It certainly won't do anything for feedback.

Without being glib or condescending, judging by the fact that you're using software "amps," I'm assuming you're looking for convenience and versatility, even if it costs excellence*. As such, I would highly recommend the Line 6 guitars. The models are better than passable (I'm more impressed by...

Master volume, with the channel volume adjusted to balance the channels. What you're looking for is to drive the power section, which means playing pretty loud. So start on the clean channel, turn up, switch to the dirty channel with the gain down, then gradually increase the gain and decrease...

Turn the gain way down, all the way to clean. Turn the volume up, until you can hear the sound thicken or even start to OD a little. Bring up the gain to taste. Try with and without the boost. Report back with findings.

Those are not the cans I noticed.

"Basswood" is pronounced like the fish.

I've seen one in person, it was sort of impressive, and anticlimatic at the same time.