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Post by LooseCannon on Jun 13, 2010 21:35:07 GMT -5
Does he do the dishes for Jesus as well?  |
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Post by ringocharger on May 18, 2013 22:51:05 GMT -5
Don't know much, waiting for delivery of my first Splawn amp, a SR - and I can't wait to get my hands on it. But I have heard an online comparison of a Mesa Boogie and a Splawn Amp, and the Mesa sucked in comparison.
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Post by ringocharger on May 18, 2013 22:53:54 GMT -5
.... I think the Jesus connection must be right, I only hope my new SR sounds as good as I hope when it arrives. I'm confident it will be everything I'm hoping for.
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Post by alerich on Jun 15, 2013 17:51:50 GMT -5
I have a 2nd gen QR that I absolutely love. I decided I wanted to learn more about my amps and decided to build a kit from metroamps. I built a 1959 SLP 100 watt head with the PTP board. The thing sound killer and have started to mod it a bit and will continue to tweak it. Does anybody out there know how Scott gets all his gain. The layout for the QR and SLP is quite similar and they ony use 3 pre amp tubes. Obviously his modded SLP's have the gain I am talking about. Does he use any diode clipping to achieve the gain at low volume. Whats the secret if there is one? I own a Splawn modded Sovtek Mig60 that I have dissected and tweaked to suit my own musical tastes. There really isn't anything earthshaking going on with the gain mods. It's just a combination of variations of things people have been doing to Marshall amps since the late 70s. There are lot of ways to increase gain (or recover lost gain) in a preamp. Raising plate resistor values, lowering cathode resistor values, changing the voltage dividers between stages, adding or changing cathode bypass caps. There is beaucoup gain available in Marshall preamp. If you consider that each 12AX7 half has a theoretical gain of 100 then three gain stages in series equal 1 million. Convert the cathode follower to a gain stage and you get 100 million. Of course, much of that either never happens based on the operating curve of the tube and a fair amount is dumped to ground through voltage dividers and the tone stack. You can gain up one stage really hot and then dump much of that signal to ground. The signal level going to the next stage is typical but the tone of the signal will sound different than a lower gain stage with less attenuation. It's a balancing act to make it hot and toneful at the same time. That is what Scott has a knack for. No substitute for trial, error and a good ear. Check out Merlin's website. Lots of great info there. Hang out on builders forums. The Splawn forum is nice but it seems to be more player oriented. |
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Post by punkrockpoet on Oct 7, 2013 13:29:05 GMT -5
Back when I had a Pro Mod, I was modding JCM 800 , and trying to get it close to my Pro-Mod's sound. I took apart my Pro Mod and saw what Splawn does in the pre-amp and power amp and copied some of it. My amp got close but not quite there. I got out of amp modding and building and now plan to buy a Nitro and enjoy the fruits of Scott's modding and building labors.
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Post by TuskerKevin on Oct 8, 2013 15:45:17 GMT -5
Back when I had a Pro Mod, I was modding JCM 800 , and trying to get it close to my Pro-Mod's sound. I took apart my Pro Mod and saw what Splawn does in the pre-amp and power amp and copied some of it. My amp got close but not quite there. I got out of amp modding and building and now plan to buy a Nitro and enjoy the fruits of Scott's modding and building labors. He has a gift. Period. :-) |
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Post by TuskerKevin on Oct 8, 2013 15:45:23 GMT -5
Back when I had a Pro Mod, I was modding JCM 800 , and trying to get it close to my Pro-Mod's sound. I took apart my Pro Mod and saw what Splawn does in the pre-amp and power amp and copied some of it. My amp got close but not quite there. I got out of amp modding and building and now plan to buy a Nitro and enjoy the fruits of Scott's modding and building labors. He has a gift. Period. :-) |
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Post by Blades on Nov 1, 2013 14:32:19 GMT -5
SCOTT'S A CLASS ACT FOR SURE !
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Post by splawndude on Nov 12, 2013 0:23:42 GMT -5
^ unlike other builders we know?
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Post by Tempest on Nov 12, 2013 0:33:19 GMT -5
Back when I had a Pro Mod, I was modding JCM 800 , and trying to get it close to my Pro-Mod's sound. I took apart my Pro Mod and saw what Splawn does in the pre-amp and power amp and copied some of it. My amp got close but not quite there. I got out of amp modding and building and now plan to buy a Nitro and enjoy the fruits of Scott's modding and building labors. He has a gift. Period. :-) He puts period in his amps??? Soz, bad joke. I am surprised however that anyone CAN take one of scott's amps apart, they're so well built! |
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