I find that on most presets I need to have my treble at around 2 or 3 out of 10.
It seems to me that is wasting a lot of EQ tweaking potential.
I still love it though
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bordonbert wrote:Hahaha! Thank God for variation in the world eh?
I've seen your recent pic of your setup Phrasemaker, you have it running with an Orange cab don't you? I thought that had (a) V30 in it but it doesn't sound like it from what you are saying. If it isn't a V30 what is the secret ingredient in there?
As for you WhiskeyMike, you've obviously been at the Frisky Juice far too often. Your head has gone numb if that jowl shredding top end isn't unpleasant! I just hope to all heck you don't play a Tele through it? (I am worried it may even be something with pointy bits sticking out at awkward angles and a dark tomblike paint job based on skulls. )
1) the amp is indeed trebbly but in some way you can handle it.I haven't yet change the stock tubes. I am thinking of going with the jj 's.But i don't know if it has a serious impact tonewise or it is a placebo effect.
2) the worst channel for me that i can't use due to it's fizziness is the lead channel and not the ultra. I don't know what i 'm doing wrong since everyone says that the ultra suffers from that characteristic but from my experience i think the lead is very fizzy.
WhiskeyMike wrote:Bellows falls area
Stapletongas wrote:The amp is "toppy", tube swapping helps, so does playing with each control to find out what each knob does.
Mine is loaded with quad matched JJ's in the power section. Pre amp is JJ ECC83's gold pin in V1 and 2, V3 is a Mullard balanced 12AT7. I'm going through a Marshall 1912. Generally using a PRS Bernie Marsden SE with a set of SD Pearly Gates. I generally play classic rock, blues/rock. Mostly use crunch and lead and make use of the guitar volume and tone knobs to clean up etc.
Ok, firstly dial everything except reverb to 12 o'clock. (All numbers referred to now are in "o'clock".
Choose a power setting that gets the master to at least 1 or 2, even if that means turning the pre amp volume down. It's good for the power amp back end to come through, it adds tone and beef.
Now one at a time play with presence and then resonance. Set to taste.
Reverb off
Rotate all the way and one at a time treble, mid then basis, keep the others at 12. I find mid has the most dramatic sweep. Treble and bass seem to react together more. In fact keeping treble and bass at 12, just rotating mid to taste pretty much gets me there for crunch and lead tones, leaving minor adjustment of treble and bass if required at all.
I am getting the impression the the eq knobs are not a 1-10, but are all cut and boost from 12 o'clock instead.
Hope some of you find this a good starting point.
\gravydb wrote:Davus, the Red Box signal is 'line level', so make sure you are using a line level input on your mixer. It may be a separate 1/4" jack on the channel, or there may be a switch on the channel. If you are simply running a XLR cable from the Red Box to the regular mic/instrument input on the mixer, the signal will be way too hot.
On our mixer, the line level input is a 1/4" jack. I use a regular xlr cable with a 1/4" adapter. You can also experiment with in-line attenuators (-10dB, -20dB, etc) if you still need to get the signal level down.
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