Hello - I recently purchased my first Boogie (apart from my pedal V-Twin), a DC-5 combo. Very pleasantly surprised b the clean channel - I'm enjoying that a lot. Not so much with the dirty side. I like a distorted sound that is smooth, fat, warmish, and sustains all week. To me all I'm getting out of my DC-5 sounds harsh, buzzy, and grainy, like a bunch of bees with power tools were doing the work inside. I gets buzzier and fuzzier as the gain goes up. It's not totally unusable, just unlikable. i've done a lot of messing wit the controls, going to the handbook recommendations, playing with the EQ, cranking it up, etc. It's just unmusical to my ear. I keep getting frustrated and just running my V-Twin through my *gasp* Bugera V-5, which gives me just the smooth, fat sound I described above.
I know this just might be the character of the amp, in which case It'll be up for sale soon. But that's not te impression I get when I hear others talk about their DC-5 tones.
Any thoughts on how to fix it? Tubes? Somebody help before I go hunt down a Carvin X100B to replace it!
I know this just might be the character of the amp, in which case It'll be up for sale soon. But that's not te impression I get when I hear others talk about their DC-5 tones.
Any thoughts on how to fix it? Tubes? Somebody help before I go hunt down a Carvin X100B to replace it!