Hi Myles,
I bought a 9 year old uk, handwired ac30tb/6 with bluebacks just a few weeks ago, and I love it. I do have one minor complaint. The amp gets rather noisy when I push the brilliant channel past even 2 o'clock. Is there anything wrong here, anything I could do?
I did figure out one way to get more of a ringing tone out of the amp, with less noise: instead of patching guitar->normal->brilliant and pushing the brilliant channel, going guitar->brilliant->normal, with the brilliant channel merely on and the normal pushing the tone. That way you still get the bell tone.
Anyways, if anyone knows how to remove the buzz/noise from the brilliant channel, let me know!
On a sidenote: how much is one of these in almost mint sounding condition, with a little wear on the grille?