scottosan
Well-known member
So, I absolutely love my runt 20, but have wanted a something with some more muscle. I came across a 100W Metro Kit last week and decided to put it under the knife.
What I have so far is the Brown eye-ish channel and while I'm waiting for my relays, socket and pots to come in, left the low input in there so i can use it like the plexi channel on from the smallbox. If got the fat mod, sat mod, and c45 mod in there as well as the voice swithc
Once my pasts come in, I will go full on switchable HBE-ish and clean channel, and DC heaters, etc.... Having never played the BE-100 i'm not sure how close I got.
Overall, I can see how some people think it's dark if they have only played it at low volumes. Once you hit the sweet spot, it's opens up. I found that I like the C45 mod as it seems to give it a little more gain and crunch. It seems like the amp has lots of gain even before hitting the sat switch. I think the sat, fat and voice switch work best at lower gain and volume settings. If I don't want to turn it up the sat give me that fluid lead tones without having to push the amp while the FAT and Voice allows for be to thicken the tone at lower gain setting. Seems like this already has lots of low end so the FAT switch really might be overkill at higher gain and volume settings. I'm also using stock Marshall filtering, not the lower filter in the actual BE and I'm also waiting on 3H choke to try out since I have a 10H in there. I typically like a 3H choke for more modern sounds
Pics as soon as I can get into photobucket
What I have so far is the Brown eye-ish channel and while I'm waiting for my relays, socket and pots to come in, left the low input in there so i can use it like the plexi channel on from the smallbox. If got the fat mod, sat mod, and c45 mod in there as well as the voice swithc
Once my pasts come in, I will go full on switchable HBE-ish and clean channel, and DC heaters, etc.... Having never played the BE-100 i'm not sure how close I got.
Overall, I can see how some people think it's dark if they have only played it at low volumes. Once you hit the sweet spot, it's opens up. I found that I like the C45 mod as it seems to give it a little more gain and crunch. It seems like the amp has lots of gain even before hitting the sat switch. I think the sat, fat and voice switch work best at lower gain and volume settings. If I don't want to turn it up the sat give me that fluid lead tones without having to push the amp while the FAT and Voice allows for be to thicken the tone at lower gain setting. Seems like this already has lots of low end so the FAT switch really might be overkill at higher gain and volume settings. I'm also using stock Marshall filtering, not the lower filter in the actual BE and I'm also waiting on 3H choke to try out since I have a 10H in there. I typically like a 3H choke for more modern sounds
Pics as soon as I can get into photobucket
I never use any of the extra options on my BE. Post some clips when you get it done.
Soon as I turned off the heat gun I realized it and said aloud; "Fuck, that won't work." But I decided to connect it with a 1N4747 (20v) for an asymmetrical clipper. It def sounded better connected one way than the other. I don't know if it was letting some of the natural amp assymetry thru or 'correcting' that natural asymmetry and I never 'scoped it (one day I will). Anyway, food for thought.
