I live in Nelson NZ, we just had a metre (3.3 feet) of rain fall in 4 days!. well above average. Love your work. As a guitarist I hold amp techs in high esteem!
Bought a version 1 at a thrift shop for $15. Had the exact same problem. Your fix worked like a charm. Thanks for the info. You kept another amp out of the landfill. Cheers!
Local pawn shop had the head version of this fender mustang, and when I went to get it, they had sold it. It seemed to me you could get a good base clean tone with it, and then I was gonna layer it with my pedals....thanks for another one ...
Well done, Stuart. This repair is evidentiary that ROHS adherence equals dry, cracked solder joints. There nothing like good old 60/40 leaded solder. Cheers!
If you really want those solder joints to last, remove the old solder first before resoldering with 60-40 lead solder. Leadfree and lead-bearing solder don't always alloy in predictable ways, depending on what type of leadfree crap they used.
ROHS was agreed to by electronics manufacturers because 1) it "absolves" them of responsibility for disposing of the millions of tons of e-waste they create, and 2) a shortened product life is good for their financial bottom line.
@@goodun2974 Soubds about right! I worked briefly on a job where they were having to completely redesign a chart recorder used on a nuclear submarine. WHY? The (old generation) microprocessor had lead INSIDE it and the regulations now stipulate everything must be lead-free.
I have the 100w v2 model. Great tones and versatile amp. My worries is the main circuit board failures. No parts available in the USA. Great on the repair.
Hi Larry. Yes that's the major issue and it's happening with so many modern amps. I had to scrap a perfectly good Fender Rumble 200 yestrday as Fender do not supply spares. Also Blackstar have stopped doing replacement boards for the HT1 and HT5 - which was the only way you could repair them. So that's tens of thousands of amps heading for landfill. It's abosolutely disgusting in my view.
Great job on rescuing this amp from the dump. A slightly easier fix than the tube studio mic pres that were brought to you a month or two ago lol. Easy to laugh now, I am sure it wasn’t too funny at the time.
Nice fix Stuart, the owner got lucky with that one..! It's a pity such a great amp manufacturer like Fender, don't make it simpler with these new types to service. Surely it would attract more sales...Cool sounds for a small amp..Ed..uk..😀
I have the same amp, didn’t turn it on for around a month and when I went to practice again, it didn’t turn on. No sound, no buzzing, no light turning on. I cleaned the wires and ports but doesn’t seem to help. Any advice?
Here in New England we've only had .1 inches of rain in the last month (yes, 1/10th of an inch). We are approaching stage 3 drought. I was hoping to do some mushroom picking this summer and fall but there are no fungi to be found.
Great video. Maybe you can help me with my amp as well. I have a Mustang III that has no output to the speaker but the XLR output works. I called Fender and they said they "destroyed" all the schematics. They also said sorry about the inconvenience. Not funny. Would you have any idea about that? Thanks so much! Much appreciated.
Hi I just checked and alas I don't have the schematic for that amp. Did you mean XLR? That would be some sort of DI output wouldn't it? Have you checked the HT fuse?
Wow, extreme. The manufacturers never learn basic maintenance issues like this, they just keep doing the same things. E.g. very hot power resistors mounted right on the board and so on.
I think there might still be a fault with those jacks. There should be no sound, or very little at least, when there is nothing plugged in. That fault was present before and after repair, or am I missing something?
in my mustang i get sound via headphone output but on speaker sound is ultra quiet. If i use headphone output and connect to another amp line in i get sound normally.
I can;lt recall where the headphone out is taken from in the chain, but this would need fault finding from that point onwards. If headphone out is working, I;d expect you to get a good sound if you connected this to another amp of course, so that test doesn;t really add anything. Good luck.
I have one of these and the volume was fading in and out. It's now had a replacement part so it's volume is constant, but as a result the tone of the amp is muddy. So much so I have to turn the treble full up, the bass and mid full down and still use maximum treble on my overdrive pedal to get a workable tone. 🤷♂️ Any ideas people?
I have a Mustang 1 V2 that starts screaming a feedback kind of noise at me the moment I switch it on, even with all the dials turned down. No feedback when I plug in headphones, but also just mono static. Any idea what might be causing this?
@@stuartukguitarampguy5830 thanks for your reply! I wrote to the seller and they just sent me a shipping label to return it, so I guess that'll be that. They have a 2nd hand Nux mighty 20bt in stock which is kinda cool because you can control it through a phone app. Heard good things about it so will be getting that instead.
That must have been a relief ! My only problem with these types of amp is if the output board dies, then it's a candidate for the none recyclable refuse .. Pure corporate capitalism but not really very environmentally friendly . Plug in replacement modules would make these amps a really good investment but despite the present 'climate change' narrative, it wont happen as it's that wouldn't be good for making profits.
I really don't understand why they don't sell the spare boards and make a decent profit. Blackstar chave now stopped selling replacement boards for HT and HT5 - which was about the onlty way you could fix them. Not tens of thousands of amps are destined for landfill because of this decision, Charge £100 a board ffs and make a profit. We don;t care, we just want the boards.
@@stuartukguitarampguy5830 Totally agree with you Stuart. Replacement boards would still keep you in work, and customers would be grateful not to have to part with an amp they are happy with and used to using. Cabinets and drivers go on forever as long as you don't leave the amp out in a thunderstorm !
@@pda49184 , yeah, particle board, chipboard, or Medite ---- made with nasty chemical adhesives ---- don't hold up well in a rainstorm. Worst case scenario: old Danelectro/Silvertone amps with cabinets made of compressed paper (Homesote, what I call "mother of wasps nest") and masonite. Old amps with plywood or pine cabs are much better for the environment in the long run (and they sound better too).
It might be possible to extend the life of the product by having a tech replace the cheap, cheesy, low temperature, stock capacitors in advance with higher quality/105 C rated caps, before the originals bust a gut and cause damage elsewhere in the circuit; and resolder everything while they're at it.
