Fender Hot Rod Deluxe / Blues Capacitor Upgrade
Fender Hot Rod & Blues Junior Capacitor Upgrade – Harlow Essex The capacitors fitted to many Fender amplifiers are manufactured by a brand called IC. It is no secret that these capacitors are in a stressful environment, high voltage and warm conditions prematurely ages them and failures are quite high. Symptoms may include: Increased background […]
Electrical Safety
Repairs & Electrical Safety All Equipment brought to us will be visually checked before we carry out repairs. An electrical test and certificate of electrical safety will only be issued if requested from the customer. We are unable to verify the suitability or use of equipment outside of our workshop premises. We accept no responsibility […]
Advice & Modification
Offering Advice For Electronics Repair Please note we will only be able to offer advice on the item you have for repair at the time. Modifications will be carried out at our discretion where we will check that the modification is safe to do so. We see many emails where somebody has read on a […]
Automatic Repair
Costs We Automatically Repair up to without Confirming With You. In order to streamline our repair processes we will automatically repair up to the below values of bench fee before getting back in touch, this is excluding parts. If you bring equipment to us to repair and the issue is parts then we cannot repair […]
Warranty
Warranties on repairs – workshop and onsite Workshop repairs We warranty all our repairs for a period of 2 months from repair date, not collection date. Returns must be brought back to us within the window for repair. Claim must be made by opening the original ticket, or opening a new ticket making reference to […]
Sales & Return Policy
Sales & Return Policy Payment We accept Credit Card, Debit Card payments via Paypal Cards we accept, (MasterCard / Visa / Visa Delta / Visa Electron and Amex). The goods will not be delivered until the customer’s funds that have been paid to Sickamps Ltd have cleared in full. Order Notes Please note that all transactions will […]
Adding Speaker Sockets
Installing speaker jacks on hard wired combos Despite being very simple, the act of being able to plug in an external cabinet into a combo amp and give you a whole host of different sound options. It’s a simple mod where we install a 6.35mm speaker jack socket in the chassis, and replace the fixed […]
PPIMV Master Volume
Mod – Adding a PPIMV Master Volume in Essex PPIMV – (Post Phase Invert Master Volume) For valve amplifiers without a master volume this is by far the best kind of master volume modification around, tonally it provides very little colouration while allowing you to crank the preamp valves. […]
St Albans
We’re a popular amplifier repair company within easy reach of St Albans If you are based in or around the small villages near to St Albans and have a broken guitar amplifier or piano in need of a service or repair. We are only a short drive away to offering you a quality fast service. […]
Hitchin
We’re a popular amplifier repair company in Essex close to Hitchin by road Sickamps is a nearby electronics repair centre close to Hitchin and is geared for the repair and servicing of musical electronics. We specialise in Vintage and modern amplifiers, valve amps as well as being authorised to repair Electric pianos made by Yamaha, […]