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Post by blcws6 on Mar 26, 2013 13:17:42 GMT -5
well have you? How did it sound? Im talking loop volume all the way off and master turned all the way up.
I actually did it yesterday and it sounded terrible and I have no clue why. Do you guys have any suggestions. The amp sounds great a low volumes and volumes loud enough for gigs but when completely cranked it goes to sh!t.
Could this be a power tube problem? My tubes are pretty new and are NOS RFT el34s biased to around 30mA (which is a little cold i know).
Could it be eq?
What do you guys think it could be?
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Post by rocknrolla on Mar 26, 2013 13:50:16 GMT -5
That's like asking if you've ever revved your car's engine over the redline and wondering why it's smoking.
Short answer, don't do that.
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Post by blcws6 on Mar 26, 2013 14:28:27 GMT -5
not to sound incompetent, but why? Arent tube amps supposed to sound their best when the master is maxed?
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Post by rocknrolla on Mar 26, 2013 15:00:07 GMT -5
No man. They sound their best LOUD but not wide open. A Ferrari has a lot of power in the higher RPM range but you wouldn't drive one around at 11,000 RPM everywhere you went, right? Amps have a "power band" so to speak like an engine does. It's called the "sweet spot". On your QR with the loop bypassed try the volume between 8-10:00 depending on the amount of hearing damage you're willing to take  . |
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Post by sasquatch on Mar 26, 2013 15:06:29 GMT -5
Single channel / no master volume amps yes, multi channel high gain amps... not necessarily. It is good to push the power section some instead of relying strictly on preamp gain, but I wouldn't dime the master volume.
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Post by blcws6 on Mar 26, 2013 15:11:45 GMT -5
Single channel / no master volume amps yes, multi channel high gain amps... not necessarily. It is good to push the power section some instead of relying strictly on preamp gain, but I wouldn't dime the master volume. so would the clean channel count as a NMV type amp so to speak. Because then thats dimed it sounds a lot better than the OD channel dimed. |
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Post by rocknrolla on Mar 26, 2013 15:28:59 GMT -5
Your amp wasn't designed to be played that way. Neither channel.
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Post by holyroller on Mar 26, 2013 19:27:07 GMT -5
When I had mine the dirty channels weren't that good dimed, but the clean channel was pretty good .
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Post by TuskerKevin on Mar 28, 2013 20:06:30 GMT -5
No man. They sound their best LOUD but not wide open. A Ferrari has a lot of power in the higher RPM range but you wouldn't drive one around at 11,000 RPM everywhere you went, right? Amps have a "power band" so to speak like an engine does. It's called the "sweet spot". On your QR with the loop bypassed try the volume between 8-10:00 depending on the amount of hearing damage you're willing to take . +1 |
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Post by Tempest on Mar 29, 2013 15:44:11 GMT -5
I have my Nitro set to 9 o'clock for rhythm and boost set to 1 o'clock for leads. That's about as high as I dare take it....If you set your main sound to loud, you'll find the solo boost wont make much difference, and if you run it wide open it'll only be good for cooking eggs on.
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Post by flcmcya on Mar 30, 2013 18:39:32 GMT -5
My clean channel is barely cracked open and it is overpowering my OD channels....
Scott told me it was designed this way but at lower volumes the clean is so much louder as the OD volume just adds more compression at higher settings......
He also told me that both masters shouldn't be run much more than 12 oclock.
Just curious if others have the same volume setup because my clean side runs almost off!
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Post by blcws6 on Apr 8, 2013 18:40:38 GMT -5
yea man thats pretty usual on multi channel amps I find. Clean channels generally cut better than the OD channels at the same volume. So yea, my clean channel volumes always runs a bit lower than my OD channel volume.
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