The troll was none other than the infamous Donnie B.
He was on his fifth or sixth alt identity over there and everyone knew it and the mods refused to do anything. So I called out the mods for being derelict in their duties and I got banned. I asked them exactly which rule I broke and I got...
It's everything nowadays and it ruins searching. You can't search for best [insert item here] without getting hundreds of useless top 10 links. And all of them are just pushing Chinese crap from Amazon.
They aren't the same. There are a couple differences as I explained earlier that make a pronounced difference in the sound. However, aside from those couple differences the circuits are almost identical. This isn't a bad thing. Many amps are derived from other amps. The first Marshalls were...
The reason the DR preamp doesn't sound the same into the return of the SLO is two-fold:
1. The preamp is different as I explained above.
2. The SLO return is BEFORE the tone stack.
Those two things are far more influential than layout differences. Layout doesn't substantially effect the sound...
I didn't read the whole thread. There are two primary things that make a Recto sound different than an SLO:
1. The input gain pot. On a Recto it's 250K, on an SLO it 500K. This reduces the gain of the Recto and shifts the frequency emphasis. The bright cap on the gain pot is also a...
If you reduce that 39K resistor you'll get a lot of grid clipping and bias excursion on the next stage.
If you want to do that then you should probably increase the grid stopper on the next stage and potentially put a divider in there to knock the signal down a bit. You can also decrease the...
Depends on a multitude of things:
- Taper of MV pot
- Amount of attenuation between last preamp stage and power amp
- Preamp gain
- Gain of PI
- Amount of power amp negative feedback
- Preamp voltage vs B+
- Type of power tubes
- Transformer match
- etc.
The MV on a Fender is essentially on 10...
When interconnecting grounded equipment lower noise is usually achieved if the shield at the receiving end of the cable is not connected. If the cable shield is connected to ground at both ends a ground loop can be created.
A ground loop allows noise currents to flow in the cable shield. This...
I guess this is a bit ironic because the chirp was one of the things I spent a long time trying to figure out why real amps did it and how to reproduce it. You can really hear it on the first VH albums.
Long story short: it's related to the amp's compression. You can reduce it by reducing the...
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This is what it looks like happened:
Buyer had no intention of ever keeping the amp.
He needed something for a couple gigs.
He "bought" the amp and gigged it.
During the gigs he stomped on the footswitch many times and with vigor which caused the rubber on the bottom to peel and the switch...
You should click Buy it Now but don't pay for it. Then when you get pressured tell him that you thought you were buying an action toy and got confused.
Copying and pasting information about granite from wikipedia and then spouting a bunch of pseduo-scientific gobledygook doesn't make you an inventor nor a scientist. Everything you've said so far is nonsense. Granite is not the fourth densest material on earth. Not even close. Granite has no...