Thought that I would start a thread about my Legacy Valve Edition 5 Plus guitar amp, actually, from what I've read online it is really a re-branded Epiphone Valve Special, I seem to remember buying it from my local Top End Sounds Pro Music shop a few years ago, normally it retailed for something like $299.00 or so, but I managed to buy it for about $150.00 if my memory serves me right, so why was I able to buy it for about half the price?, simple, there were two broken white plastic fuse-holders which were preventing the amp from functioning properly, after looking at the circuit diagram of the amp, I worked out that they were originally there to protect the heater-supply winding of the power transformer, since the fuse holders were broken no heater-power was getting to the three valves, to fix the amp I simply removed the fuse holders and joined the wire-ends up to where they were supposed to go, soldered them and then used heatshrink to insulate the soldered joints, result....the amp burst into life again.
I'll post a pic of the amp shortly soon as I can take a good pic with my digital camera.
Here we go:
My Legacy amp uses two 12AX7 preamp valves and one EL84 power valve to generate about 5 watts of audio power, when I got the amp back home from uni, I decided to swap out the stock speaker for the Jensen C10Q speaker (luckily they were both 10 inch types) that was in my Peavey Backstage plus amp, I'm going to be buying another brand-new Jensen C10Q later on this year for the Peavey amp anyway, swapping out the speaker made a big difference to the tone of the Legacy amp, I'll see if I can make a demo recording of it later on once I get my condenser mic back from uni.
Before I forget, I should also mention that my Legacy amp also has some solid-state circuitry in it but that's mostly for the reverb and DSP FX.
One thing's for sure, it definitely likes being overdriven by my Rangemaster pedal, I'm getting a pretty good Blues sound at the moment, will definitely include it in the demo recording of the amp.
The amp is only rated to put out 5 Watts of audio power, but don't let this fool you, it's a loud 5 Watts, especially if you use a Rangemaster Treble-Booster pedal to push the amp harder into overdrive after maxxing-out the Master Volume and Gain controls.