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Owen wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:01 pm RIP to the days when you could always find one for $350-500 all day long.
Having owned 2 V4s and 2 VT-22s, those good old days had a lot of ones in need of a retube and cap job, so add another couple hundred for service.

Really unique sounding amps when they run well, and I think the reverb ones have a better verb than Fenders. They sure fucked up with that “distortion” knob though.
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twelvepoint wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:41 pm
Owen wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:01 pm RIP to the days when you could always find one for $350-500 all day long.
Having owned 2 V4s and 2 VT-22s, those good old days had a lot of ones in need of a retube and cap job, so add another couple hundred for service.

Really unique sounding amps when they run well, and I think the reverb ones have a better verb than Fenders. They sure fucked up with that “distortion” knob though.
I had two regular V4s with the metal knobs, no master and think I got lucky. The main one survived three shitty tours and a bass player dropping it on the concrete during load out. Never gave me a single problem. The other one did need the tube/cap job, but $525 total was still pretty great for an amp I loved the sound of. Still bummed I sold em off.
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I would totally sell my VT-22 for $350 to anyone willing to pick it up in Milwaukee. It's the 1970-ish? one tmidyett had for sale on here a couple years back.

It mostly works as intended I think (except for the fucked up sounding reverb), but a friend here also has one that's in the shop every other month. Makes me not want to go down that road, and I don't really need loud vintage tube-y magic anyway.
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penningtron wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:53 am It mostly works as intended I think (except for the fucked up sounding reverb),
I'm only asking this because I didn't know it when I first got my first V4, but have you unlocked the reverb? There's a lock mechanism for travel and if its locked it sounds fucked up. Otherwise these have a pretty great reverb. Check that if you never have!

I owned 2x V4 and 1x V4B. None of them recapped. I practiced twice a week 4 hours at a time and gigged pretty regularly with one of them for about 5 years. I never had any issue with any of them. 2 out of 3 even had original tubes. Sometimes you get lucky.
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tommy wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:53 am
penningtron wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 8:53 am It mostly works as intended I think (except for the fucked up sounding reverb),
I'm only asking this because I didn't know it when I first got my first V4, but have you unlocked the reverb? There's a lock mechanism for travel and if its locked it sounds fucked up. Otherwise these have a pretty great reverb. Check that if you never have!

I owned 2x V4 and 1x V4B. None of them recapped. I practiced twice a week 4 hours at a time and gigged pretty regularly with one of them for about 5 years. I never had any issue with any of them. 2 out of 3 even had original tubes. Sometimes you get lucky.
I was told about the famed "reverb brake" years ago and never found evidence of anyone else having heard of it. Turns out everyone says "reverb lock" except the amp repairman who told me about it, who I swear said brake.

Anyway, I don't miss my V4-B. Backbreakingly heavy.

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