Mod to switch raw/vintage/modern

[]devilRED[]

I was thinking if its possible to mod the way these mods are switch, instead of switching them via the switch in the front panel, can i mod it to a jack and then switch those mods via a footswitch?? My amp is a single rectifier.

 

[94Tremoverb]

In theory, yes easily - it's just a SPDT center-off switch so you could use a double footswitch set to give vintage/other on the first switch and raw/modern on the second.

In practice, it would be more or less useless since the volume and tone changes between the three modes are drastic and require you to re-adjust the knobs as well. Unless you have found some settings that work for you just by changing the switch...

I've thought about this on my Tremoverb as well but there are no knob combinations that really give me the right balance between the different modes.

 

[UnderJollyRoger]

Well, in theory you could use it to go from, let's say a heavy part in modern to a quiet part in raw or vintage.

That's about the only thing that would make sense to me. As tremoverb said, the volume and tonal differencies are huge ...

 

[YellowJacket]

Hmm, wouldn't you need a separate volume and gain pot installed to make such a mod even usable? It's tempting . . .

 

[]devilRED[]

I know the diferences between volume from vintage to modern but i can conpensate that easy with the G-Major, imagine ... when i switch from modern to vintage ill give the extra boost with G-Major and if necessary i'll add eq with the G-Major to compensate some frequencies. It's like to have an amp with 2 chanels but with 5 diferente sounds, all of them or at least some, switched by the relay from the G-Major my main sound is clean and vintage/modern, although i like the vintage more than the modern. I hope that you understand what i meant, sorry about my english, but i see a lot ppl talking about the serial/parallel mod in the fx loop, and none about this issue, i had an ENGL Powerball and i could switch all the 4 chanels with my G-Major

 

[vitor gracie]

Theres an easier way, ...buy a Roadster.
:lol:

 

[fluff191]

Theres an easier way, ...buy a Roadster.
:lol:

+1

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[94Tremoverb]

I know the diferences between volume from vintage to modern but i can conpensate that easy with the G-Major, imagine ... when i switch from modern to vintage ill give the extra boost with G-Major and if necessary i'll add eq with the G-Major to compensate some frequencies. It's like to have an amp with 2 chanels but with 5 diferente sounds, all of them or at least some, switched by the relay from the G-Major my main sound is clean and vintage/modern, although i like the vintage more than the modern. I hope that you understand what i meant, sorry about my english, but i see a lot ppl talking about the serial/parallel mod in the fx loop, and none about this issue, i had an ENGL Powerball and i could switch all the 4 chanels with my G-Major

Great idea, and in theory that would work, but in practice it's going to be more difficult - the problem is that the G-Major will almost certainly use switch-to-ground logic for the control outputs, and I'm also almost certain that the Mesa mode switches are *not* switched to ground (the series 1 Single Rec definitely isn't, I don't have a schematic for series 2), so connecting the two wouldn't work properly and/or could even possibly cause damage.

You could do it if you were simply trying to do it with a foot switch, since that doesn't have to be grounded. If I'm wrong about the G-major, it could still work. Check whether the switched outputs are grounded - if it's not stated in the manual, a metal jack almost always will be, a plastic one might not (I'm not familiar enough with the unit to remember).

*If* it's all compatible, it's an easy mod - one jack on the back panel (you could convert the Slave output, if you don't use that normally) and some wire inside the amp.

 

[]devilRED[]

Theres an easier way, ...buy a Roadster.
:lol:

+1

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An easyer expensive way you mean i thing i'm going for the cheapest

 

[screamingdaisy]

My Recto Preamp was setup to do the modern to vintage switch. The idea was that you'd use modern for rhythm, then when you stepped on the solo switch it kicked over to vintage and used the solo boost function to bump vintage's volume up to solo levels.

The preamp was designed to do that from the factory however.