Dr GearHead
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It sounded great, honestly, all the way through I just kept thinking how good it sounded. 8).
It was so smooth and crunchy but with loads of cut. I could really feel the bass when I was playing palm muted open e's. It's such an interactive amp, I really felt connected to it.
Did have a couple of issues though. The amp managed to pop a V2 pre-amp tube a couple of days before the gig, it was loaded with gold pin JJ ecc83s in pos V1 to V4 but I only had the original boogie tubes spare so I pulled the JJ from V4 and put in in V2 with the boogie tube going to V4. It didn't seem to have a detrimental effect on the sound but I was suffereing from bad feedback all evening which I don't normal get at all. I'm sure we are louder at practise.
I have practise tonight so I will see how it goes. I think maybe I have the pre-amp and master vols set wrong, the pre-amp vol was around 1/2 way while the master was on about 1/3. I can understand the red channel feeding back because I have it on fluid drive with the gain on about 2/3. The blue channel is on cruch with the gain set to about 3/4 so maybe that's why it was feeding back on there too.
The next gig is open air so I will get the chance to run the ace with the orange cab, I cannot wait.
I'll admit I have not had a lot of tube amps and this is the 1st one I have played seriously with a band, sometimes I think I would like to try other amps just to see what they are like but there is not a practise goes by when I don't turn around and look at the amp and think wow.
It was so smooth and crunchy but with loads of cut. I could really feel the bass when I was playing palm muted open e's. It's such an interactive amp, I really felt connected to it.
Did have a couple of issues though. The amp managed to pop a V2 pre-amp tube a couple of days before the gig, it was loaded with gold pin JJ ecc83s in pos V1 to V4 but I only had the original boogie tubes spare so I pulled the JJ from V4 and put in in V2 with the boogie tube going to V4. It didn't seem to have a detrimental effect on the sound but I was suffereing from bad feedback all evening which I don't normal get at all. I'm sure we are louder at practise.
I have practise tonight so I will see how it goes. I think maybe I have the pre-amp and master vols set wrong, the pre-amp vol was around 1/2 way while the master was on about 1/3. I can understand the red channel feeding back because I have it on fluid drive with the gain on about 2/3. The blue channel is on cruch with the gain set to about 3/4 so maybe that's why it was feeding back on there too.
The next gig is open air so I will get the chance to run the ace with the orange cab, I cannot wait.
I'll admit I have not had a lot of tube amps and this is the 1st one I have played seriously with a band, sometimes I think I would like to try other amps just to see what they are like but there is not a practise goes by when I don't turn around and look at the amp and think wow.
