Recent content by Chris Manuel

If you're getting "idling" hiss, noise with the guitar unplugged, about all you can do is gate or noise suppress the track. If you have a guitar that is noisy you might look at cables, pickups, guitar shielding and the actual orientation of the guitar in the room. Sometimes if you turn a few...

You'll get a lot more low end punch if you use Simul Class. In Class A mode you'd only be using the EL34s and getting maybe 30 watts output. Bass volume needs power! Don't hesitate to crank the bass sliders in the Graphic. You really have to tweak the Bass dial by quarter turns as it can pour a...

For those of you having difficulty with the lead tone on the .50 - it just doesn't work unless the master's cranked. Also it does saturate quite early on the drive dial - if you reduce the drive it sounds pretty thin until the output tubes are overdriven. A Route 66 overdrive pedal actually...