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Post by jimbax on Dec 13, 2005 13:28:43 GMT -5
Shred, I'm a chronic tweaker, too. In fact, I posted about juicing my bias up a bit in another thread. Well, they sounded so beautiful and warm...until I ran them really hard for a practice session. It seems that after about 20 minutes of volume, they started getting a tad mushy sounding...losing that beautiful Splawn "bite". I immediately opened up the amp and reduced the bias to where the amp sounded aggressive again...it happened to be right around where Scott sets the bias. The old saying rings true..."if ain't broke..." I'm really digging first gear on OD2 with the gain around noon...a lot. I can just see it...middle of a gig and the guitar player busts out a pair of those coke bottle glasses with the little lights on the sides...he whips open his amp (mid-song) and clips on a voltmeter....a slight turn of the screw driver...slips the amp back into it's box, a few screws...and cranks into a major solo! Viola! That's 'showmanship!' dude...
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Post by shreder75 on Dec 13, 2005 13:31:17 GMT -5
Shred, I'm a chronic tweaker, too. In fact, I posted about juicing my bias up a bit in another thread. Well, they sounded so beautiful and warm...until I ran them really hard for a practice session. It seems that after about 20 minutes of volume, they started getting a tad mushy sounding...losing that beautiful Splawn "bite". I immediately opened up the amp and reduced the bias to where the amp sounded aggressive again...it happened to be right around where Scott sets the bias. The old saying rings true..."if ain't broke..." I'm really digging first gear on OD2 with the gain around noon...a lot. I remember you doing that =) amps being made to sound less than good stock is nothing new...mesa, peavy, etc, etc...alot of them do it...takes mods to make some of them sound as good as they should... not so with scott...no mods needed here! everything is as it should be =D
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Post by shreder75 on Dec 13, 2005 13:33:10 GMT -5
I like the clean channel...I like that it's very responsive to pickign dynamics.....if you slam the strings it's gonna get dirty....if you play it light, it's nice n clean...and it's full sounding.....I think it's great, especially for a channel switching high gainer
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Post by Hacksaw on Dec 13, 2005 14:05:50 GMT -5
so if you are running a 16 ohm 4x12 cab at half power you have to set that amp at 8ohms? this improves the clean? i hope so i love the gain channels, but to be honest the clean is horrible. since the day i got my quick rod Ive always ran it at 1/2 power. if Scott makes any further mods to the Q/R he needs to focus on the clean channel. It will helpa little with the cleans to match impendance. if you run half power,, and you are using a 16 ohm cab, set the impedance on the amp to 8 ohms. whats happening is when switching half power, half tubes are running, this increases the impedance at the speaker jack. So, half power means your 16 ohm speaker jack became 32 ohms, set your ohms on amp to 8, it is now actually 16 ohm for a match to your cab. not doing this will case hi current in your output transformer and creates a lot of heat. runs the transformer pretty hard. remember, ohms in cab always higher than amp. you will be ok. ohms in cab lower than amp causes high current.
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Post by craggin on Dec 13, 2005 14:13:47 GMT -5
Okay...let me see if I'm doing it correctly...my 2x12 cab has 2 16 Ohm speakers wired in parallel. That means I should set the selector on the back of my amp to 8 Ohms at 100 watts...4 Ohms for 50 watts...correct?
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Post by craggin on Dec 13, 2005 14:16:19 GMT -5
I can just see it...middle of a gig and the guitar player busts out a pair of those coke bottle glasses with the little lights on the sides...he whips open his amp (mid-song) and clips on a voltmeter....a slight turn of the screw driver...slips the amp back into it's box, a few screws...and cranks into a major solo! Viola! That's 'showmanship!' dude... LOL!!! It irritated my band to have to wait the 5 minutes it took me...but the other guitarist "understood". I know it sounds pretty anal, but the tone was really getting squishy.
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Post by jimbax on Dec 13, 2005 14:19:17 GMT -5
I can just see it...middle of a gig and the guitar player busts out a pair of those coke bottle glasses with the little lights on the sides...he whips open his amp (mid-song) and clips on a voltmeter....a slight turn of the screw driver...slips the amp back into it's box, a few screws...and cranks into a major solo! Viola! That's 'showmanship!' dude... LOL!!! It irritated my band to have to wait the 5 minutes it took me...but the other guitarist "understood". I know it sounds pretty anal, but the tone was really getting squishy. NO! Totally COOL I wish I could do that!!! Awesome...
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Post by jimbax on Dec 13, 2005 14:20:17 GMT -5
Okay...let me see if I'm doing it correctly...my 2x12 cab has 2 16 Ohm speakers wired in parallel. That means I should set the selector on the back of my amp to 8 Ohms at 100 watts...4 Ohms for 50 watts...correct? I think thats right...
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Post by Hacksaw on Dec 13, 2005 14:28:09 GMT -5
Okay...let me see if I'm doing it correctly...my 2x12 cab has 2 16 Ohm speakers wired in parallel. That means I should set the selector on the back of my amp to 8 Ohms at 100 watts...4 Ohms for 50 watts...correct? Yeaup, You got it.. I will add that to the manual I am trying to write. good subject
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Post by craggin on Dec 13, 2005 14:31:29 GMT -5
LOL!!! It irritated my band to have to wait the 5 minutes it took me...but the other guitarist "understood". I know it sounds pretty anal, but the tone was really getting squishy. NO! Totally COOL I wish I could do that!!! Awesome... The band members thought I was possessed by the way I held my left arm completely away from the amp...but again, the other guitarist understood what was going on. ;D
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Post by craggin on Dec 13, 2005 14:33:19 GMT -5
Okay...let me see if I'm doing it correctly...my 2x12 cab has 2 16 Ohm speakers wired in parallel. That means I should set the selector on the back of my amp to 8 Ohms at 100 watts...4 Ohms for 50 watts...correct? Yeaup, You got it.. I will add that to the manual I am trying to write. good subject Whew!!! ;D
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Post by scubasteve on Dec 13, 2005 16:23:32 GMT -5
i bought the amp for the gain also. but now that we all agree its the best sounding hi gain amp where does Scott go from here. only one answer improve the clean channel. if you play in a cover band which it sounds like most of us do, you need to be able to do the clean thing real well. i recently bought a 6100lm because the clean is real good. the other 2 channels are ok but not near as good as a splawn
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Post by Hacksaw on Dec 13, 2005 16:30:04 GMT -5
Cool on the 6100lm, I like those. always wanted one. very creative amp. thats what I would of bought if I didnt find out about splawns!
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Post by jimbax on Dec 13, 2005 16:32:53 GMT -5
i bought the amp for the gain also. but now that we all agree its the best sounding hi gain amp where does Scott go from here. only one answer improve the clean channel. if you play in a cover band which it sounds like most of us do, you need to be able to do the clean thing real well. i recently bought a 6100lm because the clean is real good. the other 2 channels are ok but not near as good as a splawn I disagree with you on that...NO (newer) Marshall has a better clean sound (outside of JTM45)...I know..sound is SUBJECTIVE...I think Scott can help you out (again...) if you give him a call and tell him what you want out of YOUR clean sound...
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Post by Hacksaw on Dec 13, 2005 16:37:29 GMT -5
A Lot of people get a Fender amp and switch over to them for cleans. they are clean of the cleans. ( then they can get bluesy too.) then rip leads with the splawn.
I switch to the jtm45 for cleans now jimbax
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