Crate Blue Voodoo Long Playthrough

[Bad.Seed]

I got bored over the weekend and figured I'd try my hand at a "Playthrough" type video. I recorded the video with my smartphone, but used a Twonotes Captor for the audio portion, with a V30 Loaded Friedman cab sim (The twonotes sims seem to be kind of lacking, IMO)

Feel free to check it out, watch me fuck up a bunch of simple riffs and try to remember shit I know how to play and fail.

This amp is not at all as bad as it's made out to be. I'd love to find some of the mods people talk about for these, as I have a killer local tech that could perform them. Would mainly like to tighten the bass and make it a little more punchy, and remove some highs/fizz. For the low end, maybe replacement caps would help as this thing is probably 25 years old now, but something tells me it's in the circuit. I literally have the presence off in this video so there is a LOT of top end.

 

[RaceU4her]

sounds plenty decent to me, im not hearing much flub or fizz. are you boosting it??

 

[Bad.Seed]

sounds plenty decent to me, im not hearing much flub or fizz. are you boosting it??

Yessir, I'm a boost always on guy. KHDK Ghoul Screamer

 

[Zachalou]

Sounds a little thin to me, thought the same thing when a good buddy of mine used one. Though I don’t remember his settings

 

[ZEEGLER]

I had one for a number of years. it wasn't bad per se, but definitely had a fizziness that had to be dialed out. My main issue with it was that for a 100 watt amp, it wasn't very loud at all. The other guitarist in my band was playing a 5150 I and with his volume at #3, mine had to be at 7 or 8 to not be completely buried.

 

[Bad.Seed]

I had one for a number of years. it wasn't bad per se, but definitely had a fizziness that had to be dialed out. My main issue with it was that for a 100 watt amp, it wasn't very loud at all. The other guitarist in my band was playing a 5150 I and with his volume at #3, mine had to be at 7 or 8 to not be completely buried.

I've noticed this as well, but I think it's the sweep of the Volume pot. Once you get it to the last 20% of the sweep, it gets loud real quick, so gives the illusion it's not that loud.

I also threw a 12AU7 in the PI and that seemed to clear up some fizziness and actually give the amp a little tighter feel.

 

[Chris6870]

I had one for a number of years. it wasn't bad per se, but definitely had a fizziness that had to be dialed out. My main issue with it was that for a 100 watt amp, it wasn't very loud at all. The other guitarist in my band was playing a 5150 I and with his volume at #3, mine had to be at 7 or 8 to not be completely buried.

These were 60 watt, not 100. Although there was 120 watt model, not as common.

I had a 60 watt. Gigged with it extensively in the 90's. It was a good amp. It had a lot more gain than my JCM 800 and an fx loop which is why I used it. It wasn't boutique, high dollar or exquisite tone but it worked well and sounded pretty decent for the time.

 

[indespise]

Sounds pretty useable, especially considering the deal you got on it.

 

[Devin]

I always wanted to try one of the 150 or 300 watt versions

 

[RaceU4her]

The 150/300w ones are completely different amps from what i read and supposedly way better, can’t say I’ve ever heard clips of one though

 

[ZEEGLER]

I had one for a number of years. it wasn't bad per se, but definitely had a fizziness that had to be dialed out. My main issue with it was that for a 100 watt amp, it wasn't very loud at all. The other guitarist in my band was playing a 5150 I and with his volume at #3, mine had to be at 7 or 8 to not be completely buried.

These were 60 watt, not 100. Although there was 120 watt model, not as common.

I had a 60 watt. Gigged with it extensively in the 90's. It was a good amp. It had a lot more gain than my JCM 800 and an fx loop which is why I used it. It wasn't boutique, high dollar or exquisite tone but it worked well and sounded pretty decent for the time.

Actually you'll find the BV120H far more common than the BV60H. Mine was a black tolex BV120.

 

[ZEEGLER]

I had one for a number of years. it wasn't bad per se, but definitely had a fizziness that had to be dialed out. My main issue with it was that for a 100 watt amp, it wasn't very loud at all. The other guitarist in my band was playing a 5150 I and with his volume at #3, mine had to be at 7 or 8 to not be completely buried.

I've noticed this as well, but I think it's the sweep of the Volume pot. Once you get it to the last 20% of the sweep, it gets loud real quick, so gives the illusion it's not that loud.

I also threw a 12AU7 in the PI and that seemed to clear up some fizziness and actually give the amp a little tighter feel.

Back when I had mine, I was pretty clueless about tube amps. It never crossed my mind to try different tubes, and at the time I never used anything other than a tuner pedal. So I literally never used the loop either. Were they fixed bias amps? Just wondering because I never even changed the power tubes in that thing and I probably had it 6 years. LOL

 

[ZEEGLER]

Finally got around to listening to the clip. Sounds great I think. Maybe a touch of stiffness that is probably my imagination. But yeah, sounds pretty much how I remember it. I'd like to pick up another one for cheap some day just to try different tubes and speakers and whatnot. And of course, a BOOST!