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Do the current production hot rod deluxe iii have the same issue the i and ii had with cold solder and poor qc, all i see is bad quality control but the forums they are on are from like 2009

yes, but fender is good with the warranty on hot rods I'm told.... I think you get 5 years on solder joints and PCB traces.

Personally I wouldn't get ANY NEW PCB amp unless its seriously hightest shit like Soldano, tone king , bogner .... those were some durable motherfuckers (my 90s AC30RI has a prettys turdy PCB too, very reliable guy, but Marshall built it on contract, so...)

these days I find all the working-man amps seem to be reliability problems, but they're really easy to replace. A lot of marshall warranty centers will give you a loaner amp if you bring your shitty DSL or TSL in with a fucked up PCB or or cold joint... I remember they did that for someone I was in a band with before we were going out again. Amp died and they just gave him a loaner for the duration of our little tour and said his amp would be fixed when we got back.... another time we weren't touring and they didn't give him the loaner though and he wound up borrowing our neighbors 900SLX whch sounded way better and was built like a tank compared to the DSL50 he had.

Conversely, I never once needed to service the plexi or JMP and my showman was so reliable I never used to bring a backup. When I switched to the DC30 I didn't bring a backup for that either. Indestructible build quality. One of my superleads was PCB though and I also toured with a 50 watt 800 combo and those PCB amps were bulletproof.

What's my point ehre. OH! Get an old fender like a silverface or an 800 or something LOL, that's back when they made amps right. Now the bean coutners are involved and the Chinese are making things so competitive. If you don't keep costs down by outsourcing and degrading component quality you will lose a whole section of the market.... its a shame. Marshall still builds 'em in England for the most part, but some amps get more care than others and some amps just have better PCBs... they just enver got the whole DSL/TSL line roadworthy. Nor will theye ver make the hotrod line truly roadworthy. That's why you see guys on stage with multiples.

I think im gonna stick to savig for a black face deluxe reverb, i was about to be able to get it but i got blind sided by a school bill so it kinda hampered music budget this year but what can i say right when life starts going well bashes your head in with a bat

can't go wrong with a deluxe reverb... one of my 2 favorite all-arounders, right after the ac30 and only because the vox has a smoother slide into mean from clean and way more balls but with string articulation turned up into power amp clip... otherwise the DR is really a more intuitive amp to get a great sound from on an unfamiliar stage or in a tracking room you're not used to, so points there

I hear ya, a little over a year ago I was leaking money like a sieve! I ahd to part with anya nd every piece of gear that wasn't a 'use it all the time' item. Sold a tweed Gibson that was like very cool, my Marshall Studio15 (a very rare and awesome 800 series amp that's like if marshall made a gained up deluxe... their only 6V6 amp of the classic era), my oberheim matrix, the old filter factory, an spx90, a lexicon alex, my remaining vintage fuzzboxes, loads of boutique drives and analog modulation pedals, and worst of all my korg poly800. It was grim! I'm no stranger to selling gear in a crunch, but I've never liquidated so much stuff in such a short timespan. I would usually pick 1 piece that was collecting dust in the corner that was worth about the amount I needed, but man, nothing like a child custody battle to make you reassess your actual gear needs. If you don't pay for college? they get mad.... but if you don't pay your lawyer? bad idea (I did aquire a few guitars at the time, but nothing compared to the amount of money that came in from the fire sale)...

you'll get there, she will be yours.... it all evens out in the end! Lately I have gotten tons of stuff and the truth is I sue it all more than the stuff I sold.... its just a bummer because once in a while I am like "I need the fitler factory, the moog filter ain't cutting it on this source' or I think 'this part would be cooler on the Poly800. Oh well, gotta use the roland."