ummmm your tubes won't last as long if you don't make use of the standby switch....thats not us "feeling better," thats what it's there for.

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Actually, the standby switch just turns on the heaters to allow the tubes to warm up before applying voltage to the cathode and making the tube "live".

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Only when you power on. Standby doesn't matter when you power down because all it will do is leave the heaters on and your tubes will still be warmed. It's fine to just completely power down when your done playing, it won't harm your tubes at all.

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thats not what i've read......

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What source? Both Gerald Weber books and The Tube Amp Book say it's best to turn then power off then the standby to allow the caps to discharge gracefully.

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Thats it.

Turn on: Flip the on/off switch, wait 1 to 3 minutes, flip the stanby

Turn off:just flip the on/off

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First, the standby switches on the amps I've had disengage output to the speakers. Turning the amp off before letting this output disengage often makes a speaker crackle that I'm sure isn't too good for your speakers.

Second, I've never heard a solid state amp that more than half the tone of a tube amp.

the pop noise when you shut it off is just the electric circuit being cut off. it works the same when turning off ur amp as with turning it on.....when u turn on , turn your standby on a bit to ready the amp/tubes. when your turning it off, turn the standby back on and turn the power off.....so the circuit isnt running with the standby on there will be no circuit break to harm your tubes etc.

Oh, but I already have one. It sits under my computer desk, where it makes a very adequate footrest.

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what amps do you use? on every amp i've played on it just heated the tubes, like ikkyu2 said.

i've never heard anything about that. obviously yeah, when you turn on the amp, but not when you turn it off.


and i've also wondered, i've always heard things similar to what ikkyu2 said about 11 secounds to bring a tube to the proper heat. but my friend left his amp on standby for about 30 minutes before a show....is there any point to this? i would think that if the amp is up to heat in 11 secounds, there wouldn't be any point at all to this.

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That's what I've read too in Gerald Weber's book - my main reason for hitting standby first is more for speaker protection because the of the pop that sometimes happens when I just hit the power. The standby seems to prevent that. The pop probably doesn't do any real harm as it's not very loud. It just makes me feel better.

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I hate that pop too, so I turn my amps off at my surge protector. No pop.

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On a side note, is it normal for my amp (possibly tubes) to make a quiet clicky sound when I power up? It's not audible through the speakers, and it stops fairly quickly. It also does it when I hit the standby off when I'm done.

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yeah, it's normal ... they're just cooling down ... i'm sure the glass expands and contracts a bit when it warms up and cools down ... a couple of my amps do that when i'm done ...

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