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Originally Posted by Mr. Joe
Hey Marshall users,
I'm a new member here and thought I'd get community active and stuff.
I've only just started trying to reduce noise along the signal chain as I've started recording, and I replaced the preamp valve in my VS102R with a Groovetube 12AX7R. (The thing that came with it was an Ei Yugoslavian 12AX7)
Putting in a new valve has certainly cleaned up my sound! The persistent "fffffffff" noise is gone, and I'm left with very acceptable slight hum that I'm assuming is unavoidable...unless anyone wants to tell me different?
So what I'm asking is, will there always always be a slight (sometimes reassuring) hum from my amp Or can more be cut out by changing something other than valves?
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It's a high gain amp and like a muscle car it will rumble some but nothing to be concerned with after all once you hit the strings no one will hear that bit of noise anyway.
A gate is something you could try but I prefer an ungated tone myself. The trade off in tone is well worth the little bit of noise, or rumble.
