Tube layout in the Competition

[cvogue]

So I'm in a discussion on FB with a guy who has a Competition and we're all discussing preamp tubes. I was wondering what the tube layout is for the Competition.

In the QuickRod/Street Rod V1 is the Clean channel primarily, V2 and V3 are primarily for the dirty channel and V4 is the phase inverter.

The Competition doesn't have a clean channel tho, so I was wondering what the tube layout is.

I looked at the manuals on Scott's site but the Comp manual has the same layout as the QR/SR, talks about the clean channel (cut/paste error? )

 

[Bash_Man]

here you go
http://www.splawnguitars.com/Comp_PS_Manual_New.pdf
here's a snip of the screen as well.

Cheers

 

[kmanick]

there is no clean channel on the competition though???????/

 

[Bash_Man]

there is no clean channel on the competition though???????/

.. that's what I got from the manual.. maybe that's the layout of the ProStock, cause the manual is shared between the 2 models.

 

[cvogue]

Yeah that manual is just a cut/paste I think. Most Splawns are set up that way...

 

[311splawndude]

Yeah, what Bash Man posted is for both Comp and Pro Stock. The confusing part is that that is an exact copy/psate from the Quick Rod manual. Now the Competition is a single channel version of the Quick Rod (as you know). So to narrow this down, how many preamp tubes does the Competition have? I'm guessing 3 including the PI. The original QR only had 3 pre's as well so when Scott wanted to improve the cleans on the QR he added a "New V1" and bumped everything else down the line.

Doesn't exactly answer your question but if the Comp has 3 preamp tubes then both V1 and V2 are handling nothing but input and OD

 

[cvogue]

Yeah that manual is just a cut/paste I think. Most Splawns are set up that way...

Yeah, what Bash Man posted is for both Comp and Pro Stock. The confusing part is that that is an exact copy/psate from the Quick Rod manual. Now the Competition is a single channel version of the Quick Rod (as you know). So to narrow this down, how many preamp tubes does the Competition have? I'm guessing 3 including the PI. The original QR only had 3 pre's as well so when Scott wanted to improve the cleans on the QR he added a "New V1" and bumped everything else down the line.

Doesn't exactly answer your question but if the Comp has 3 preamp tubes then both V1 and V2 are handling nothing but input and OD

Makes sense!

 

[cvogue]

 

[cvogue]

See pic above, yup, 3 preamp tubes!

 

[Bash_Man]

interesting!. thanks for posting the pic.

To my understanding, the far right (closest to the Power Tubes) is the PI (best recommendation I can give you is the Sovtek 12AX7LPS).

Cheers

 

[SDMF38]

far right at power tubes is the PI, First tube closest to the input is V1 and it goes on down the line.