New Street Rod owner

[jchrisf]

Oct 11, 2019 7:18:37 GMT -5 gtrjunior said:

Ok, so you know where the static is coming from the ....
Open her up and direct spray the loop pot’s wiper while twisting the knob.

Also keep in mind that gain hiss is different from static so the more you turn the gain /volume up the more hiss will be present. That’s just the way high gain tube amps are. I run a noise gate in the loop of my QR and it is silent.

Can you make a quick cell phone video of what’s going on so we can be sure we are attacking the correct issue?

Yeah, If it is still making the noise after what I did this morning I'll spray the pot's wiper.. then if it is still doing it I will do the video of it.  The GC I got it from didn't say anything about this issue and the loop was bypassed when I received it so I am assuming they never tested it with the loop on.  The guy I talked to said he had played it several times the two months it was in the store.  Unless it was damaged in shipping but the box didn't look damaged. However, they had just stuffed it in an old Peavey Vypyr Pro box with not much padding.

[gtrjunior]

How did you make our?

[jchrisf]

I got home yesterday and was still having the problem so I gave a small spray of D5 to the wiper on the looper volume pot and working it in real good. Didn't have any issues this morning at first and then there was a couple of times that it faintly and quickly made the static when I brought it out of stand by so I worked the knob again and haven't heard it since. Let's hope that took care of it. Thanks for the advice gtrjunior.

[gtrjunior]

Hopefully we have it solved. Let me know if you have any more issues with it.

[cvogue]

Congrats on the amp jchrisf! Fellow Street Rod owner here. Glad you got your static problem resolved. I've had static issues but it always turned out to be a cable/pedalboard issue. Once I used a good cable going straight in and a short good cable in the loop it was quiet as a mouse.

You use it like I use it, gear 1 with the gain at 2:00ish, kick into OD2 for some extra "oomph" if needed. Sounds wonderful! Gear 2 is a bit bassy for me, and more modern sounding to my ears, I used gear 2 a couple of bands ago and we played more recent harder edged stuff. OD2 on gear 2 is better sounding than OD1 to my ears, brings more edge to the tone.

Current band is more classic so gear 1 does me just fine. Gear 3, as gtrjunior said is kinda gain overload but for fun I'll kick it in if we do something more shreddy.

A few tips if you're not aware of them yet:

1. The solo boost is great but is only really effective if the OD channel volume is below noon, 9-9:30 is the sweet spot. This still gives you plenty of volume, I always use the loop volume in back and rarely go past halfway even when competing with drums and the rest of the band.

2. My SR is a combo and has the Creamback 65 in it and I pair it with a 1x12 extension cabinet with a greenback in it. Sounds great! The greenback is a little edgier and balances nicely with the Creamback's beefy tone. If you do use an extension cab, make sure you adjust the impedence on the back.

3. Sounds like you're going straight into the amp, and that sounds great! But if you add pedals in front be aware that Splawns seem to be really picky about crappy buffers... both gtrjunior and I used to use a Crybaby that didn't have a good buffer (95Q model) and it kinda killed the magic Splawn tone. True bypass works much better, although I do have a buffered pedal (Boss compressor) at the beginning of my chain to help with the loss of tone due to cable length.

Again, congrats and enjoy!

[jchrisf]

Oct 12, 2019 12:20:48 GMT -5 cvogue said:

Congrats on the amp jchrisf! Fellow Street Rod owner here. Glad you got your static problem resolved. I've had static issues but it always turned out to be a cable/pedalboard issue. Once I used a good cable going straight in and a short good cable in the loop it was quiet as a mouse.

You use it like I use it, gear 1 with the gain at 2:00ish, kick into OD2 for some extra "oomph" if needed. Sounds wonderful! Gear 2 is a bit bassy for me, and more modern sounding to my ears, I used gear 2 a couple of bands ago and we played more recent harder edged stuff. OD2 on gear 2 is better sounding than OD1 to my ears, brings more edge to the tone.

Current band is more classic so gear 1 does me just fine. Gear 3, as gtrjunior said is kinda gain overload but for fun I'll kick it in if we do something more shreddy.

A few tips if you're not aware of them yet:

1. The solo boost is great but is only really effective if the OD channel volume is below noon, 9-9:30 is the sweet spot. This still gives you plenty of volume, I always use the loop volume in back and rarely go past halfway even when competing with drums and the rest of the band.

2. My SR is a combo and has the Creamback 65 in it and I pair it with a 1x12 extension cabinet with a greenback in it. Sounds great! The greenback is a little edgier and balances nicely with the Creamback's beefy tone. If you do use an extension cab, make sure you adjust the impedence on the back.

3. Sounds like you're going straight into the amp, and that sounds great! But if you add pedals in front be aware that Splawns seem to be really picky about crappy buffers... both gtrjunior and I used to use a Crybaby that didn't have a good buffer (95Q model) and it kinda killed the magic Splawn tone. True bypass works much better, although I do have a buffered pedal (Boss compressor) at the beginning of my chain to help with the loss of tone due to cable length.

Again, congrats and enjoy!

Thanks cvogue!  What guitar cables do you recommend?

[cvogue]

I use a lot of Planet Waves cables. You can't really go wrong with the bigger names. Just avoid the cheap stuff and you'll be fine.

Oh, people seem to like George L's, custom made ones... those were the ones that went bad on me though. Grant you they'd been on my board for years but still. I'd avoid them, just my opinion.

[gtrjunior]

I also like Planet Waves cables.
For my pedal board though, I custom soldered my own cables using Lake Cable. Same low capacitance as P Waves.