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Post by SonicExplorer on Mar 12, 2018 11:31:37 GMT -5
Hi Guys,
Anybody know if V3 is used when in Gear 1? I had the impression (not quite sure where from frankly) that both V2 and V3 are used when in Gear 2 & 3, but when in Gear 1 only V2 is used. I'm now thinking that might be incorrect because I tube-swapped a different tube in V3 and yet it seems I am also hearing a sound difference when in Gear 1 as well.
Thanks in advance for any clarification....
Sonic
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Post by gtrjunior on Mar 12, 2018 12:45:27 GMT -5
Not sure...might be worth a quick email to Scott.
Let us know what you learn.
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Post by briman on Mar 12, 2018 21:15:59 GMT -5
Sorry I can't help you with that. Maybe Splawndude will know.
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Post by gtrjunior on Mar 13, 2018 7:07:23 GMT -5
I looked at the tube layout page from the manual but all it says is which tubes are what gain stage. But that doesn’t tell us which tubes are used in what gear.
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Post by splawndude on Mar 13, 2018 11:18:36 GMT -5
Great question. I have no idea. I'm going to 'poke around' though now out of curiosity  My novice advice is that at least 1/2 of V3 'needs' to be used because the guitar signal probably has to pass through that tube regardless. In other words, I'd be hard pressed to think that in Gear 1 your signal leaves V2 and goes strait to V4 (but maybe it does). I may try playing the amp in Gear 1 and then pulling V3 to see if anything happens. Here is the tube layout gtrjunior was talking about for reference. It is in the user manual. Just posting in case no one has seen it: 
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Post by SonicExplorer on Mar 13, 2018 13:54:29 GMT -5
Here's straight from Scott:
"The OD channel uses V2 and V3 all the time."
That explains what I'm hearing, makes sense.
The key takeaway here is that if you are wanting to experiment with altering your overdrive tone by swapping tubes, you can swap V2 and/or V3 and it will impact ALL gears.
Sonic
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Post by briman on Mar 13, 2018 14:40:59 GMT -5
Good to know thanks.
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