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I have a Blues Jr; its a great little amp for the $$. It does some things very well.

I'm puzzled. How can a passive tone control have a "tone neutral" spot in the middle of its travel?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

All I think it would establish is that the hum is coming from the AC line, but we're pretty sure of that already. One question I don't think was answered: does your amp have a two or three conductor AC plug? If it's only got two, then changing it to three (adding an earth ground pin) might...

12p11p7? 10h12p0? What?

Well, if you are using a DAW, simply go into your guitar tracks and insert silence in those places. Every tube amp I have ever owned has produced at least a little bit of hum.

It might, but he needs to set the rest point first and set the intonation to that rather than the other way round. The springs are on the long side of the lever; it takes a lot of change in spring position to make a little difference in bridge position.

In the interest of getting onto the same page, you cannot change the tension in the springs of a floating bridge by adjusting the claw screws, only the rest position of the spring/bridge assembly. Well, it does change the tension temporarily, but when you tune the guitar it reverts to what it was.

Not the neck relief. Changing the spring position by tightening or loosening the claw screws hasn't changed the tension in the springs once you have tuned the instrument; they are counterbalanced by the tension in the strings, which is a constant for a given tuning and string gauge. Put...

FWIW, I didn't think the tone in the sound clip sounded very much like SRV's.

When you change tunings, you change the intonation, irrespective of the spring tension. If he didn't move the springs when he changed the tuning, then when he puts the tuning back the springs will be right. If he wants to stay with the alternative tuning, he should adjust the intonation at the...

First you set the rest point of the bridge/tremelo block where you want it by adjusting the springs/claw assembly. Then you set the intonation by adjusting the position of the bridge saddles. Whenever you change string gauge, you have to do it again, in the same order.

A very important thing to consider on a floating bridge guitar is what is happening in the headstock. As you exercise the bar, unless you have a locking nut, the strings slide back and forth through the slots in the nut and under the string trees (if you have them). Friction between the string...

Not the case with my brother. I had the guitar set up and it plays really well - for me. When I play a first position D chord it sounds fine, but when my brother does - not so much. I can play the D normally and it sounds fine, but when I squeeze the hell out of it it sounds, well, just like...

Part of it may be technique. My brother has played 12 string acoustic guitar for 30 years. He just plain cannot play my Les Paul in tune because he is used to squeezing the living crap out of the neck to make chords, and with the jumbo frets on my LP, he pulls every fretted note in a chord sharp.

They are supposed to. If the plates inside heat up red, though, you've got a problem.

The speaker cable could be bad, but that's not what is causing the hum. If it hums without anything plugged into the input, it's not likely a grounding issue. The fact that the hum goes away when you jiggle the speaker cable is a bit worrisome, though. It could be that the cable is shorting...

The Live Wire 3' cable is a speaker (not instrument) cable, right? You don't want to power a speaker through an instrument cable. That's a tube amp, right? You want to be very sure that the speaker cable and the jacks it plugs into are good; a short or open circuit in a speaker line while you...

Seal up what on a tube? If a tube has a leak to the evacuated envelope, it's already too late. Tube dead.

Well, the shape of the horns is like the horns on Tiger, Jerry Garcia's guitar. The Dead were hardly a metal act. :D