The Amp Garage

Good show last night at the Aladdin! Would have liked to have heard him play more. Real tasty drummer he's got there.

Measure both sides of the PI trim, adjust to 7-9 AC volts apart, pwr amp being the prodominemt side. We're really hijacking this thread in a way, as there are other threads that discuss the PI adjustment in detail. But at the risk of adding to the hijack... As I was doing the method that I describe...

I have an externally-accessible 10-turn PI trimmer on my amp. I got some white heatshrink, opened up the amp, got a few likely PI tubes and adjusted the multiturn trimmer for AC balance. Then I marked the heatshrink for # of turns to balance point and #DC volts off the tube is. Then put that on te t...

So do you just keep this box in the D-lator loop as a way to roll of highs?

Not sure if there would be a pop or not, but you could have a relay switch in/out a second capacitor(s) on the V1 cathodes, such that you have higher values for clean and lower ones for overdrive. I thought about doing that for mine, but honestly I've got ample bass on the clean channel of my dual-K...

Beg pardon. I thought I remembered him being accused of making a faux pas. You're absolutely right, nobody actually said "shame on him."

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

Jeez... you guys really know how to clear a room. I was hoping he'd post some clips at least, and talk about knowing HAD, but no, you gotta run him by calling names. I think I'll go back to 2nd grade where this behavior is expected. Gotta agree here. The OP was trying to ask some questions, but did...

Man, I made it through the whole set of videos just now. That was really a cool window into their creative process recording. One thing that struck me was Ford's serious humility in asking about his tone and playing and how it was coming across. I'm a little surprised that he's not more opinionated ...

Although I've only had experience breaking in one amp, the magnitude of the changes you seem to describe is way over what I experienced. The part about the clean channel not cleaning up initially, in particular, caught my eye. Definitely not my experience.

Thanks for that. Mr. McM is one of my favorite vocalists. Gonna have to get that album when it comes out.

24 track Studer...Sweet!

I've got question guys, I've changed strings from 10-52 to 11-54 on my Tele, and I like them, but I've got problem with setting the scale right, I've got nearly C on 12 fret of B string... Someone suggested me changing bridge, from classic (3 saddles) to modern 6 saddles. Now I'm a bit confused abo...

amplifiednation wrote:dcribbs,
I sometimes had some trouble getting the amp dialed in. It was like I would have an unreal tone going for a week, then I would lose it somehow and not be feeling the amp.

I'm glad it wasn't just me! I had the same experience.

I was just watching Robben play Freedom. It sort of embodies that tone that I chase. Sweet cleans, slightly overdriven, then just full on overdrive. Check it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRil3JBW35c -Brent Nice! Is he on the OD channel the whole time, just cleaning up the tone with the volume k...

What strikes me as interesting is that it seems like an example of "if you're used to using a hammer, everything looks like a nail." If you're used to working on amps...

Learn from my fail: before spending 45 minutes substituting tubes in every socket more than once to figure out what is causing the strange static underneath bass notes, then plugging into a mixer and finding it there, too, thereby determining it must be something in both of your main gigging guitars...