Blackwater
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Blackwater said:Greetings to the people of the board! ((newbie))
Basically I want the Clean...warm and CLEAN! no break up and the Distortion Warm and FULL bodied, not harsh!! any and all suggestions would be very much appreciated!! Sorry about the length I am sure I could have summed it up, but that is just how I am.
cheers,
jc
settings of the DR. (orange=distortion, Red=clean) Silicon Diode
Orange
Master:11 Presence:6 Bass:10 Mid:2 Treb:9 Gain:2
(settings based on clock hand rotation, not 0-10)
Red:
Master:5 Presence:8 Bass:10 Mid:2 Treb:8
Gear:
Custom ESP VIper (EMG 81/85)
Gibson Les Paul DC (p-90's)
Basson 4x12 (Emminence Legend 125's)
Sunn 4x12 (celestion GT-75's)
Crate Blue Voodo (Celestion Vintage 30's)
Pedals: Boss Giga Delay, Boss TU-2, Keely moded DS-1, Visual Sound H20, Wah from Hell, Digi tech guitar synth)
Boogiebabies said:The tone controls are passive. It is a normal everyday tone stack.
The amount of equalization in the treble is what allows an amp to have a sense of more gain. Mesa's are often termed muddy, but they have a 1M bass pot so you need to be carful on how much is dialed in. What frequency do you want to be dominant?
I agree with TheRazMeister when it comes to the Dual Rectifier Series and even the newer model series. The treble is interactive with the other tone control.Boogiebabies said:The tone controls are passive. It is a normal everyday tone stack.
The amount of equalization in the treble is what allows an amp to have a sense of more gain. Mesa's are often termed muddy, but they have a 1M bass pot so you need to be carful on how much is dialed in. What frequency do you want to be dominant?
RR said:I agree with TheRazMeister when it comes to the Dual Rectifier Series and even the newer model series. The treble is interactive with the other tone control.Boogiebabies said:The tone controls are passive. It is a normal everyday tone stack.
The amount of equalization in the treble is what allows an amp to have a sense of more gain. Mesa's are often termed muddy, but they have a 1M bass pot so you need to be carful on how much is dialed in. What frequency do you want to be dominant?
That is why someone not familiar with Boogie will not set the amp correctly and complain "mosquito tone" when they're at fault not knowing how to set the tone controls.
Mark I, II, III (not sure about the IV) tone controls are fairly passive like Fenders. Well that's what I experienced.
Yes, I agree they're not active in that sense. Thanks for the explanation. I should of said the tone controls are 'interactive', if you will, with each other.Boogiebabies said:It is a Marshall style tone stack with different value slope resistors and caps. There is nothing active. Active would be an electronically induced frequency by some type of powered equalizer. The DR has no more than resistors and capacitors in series with the signal before the phase inverter which put the EQ post gain. They are interactive, of course as they are in the signal path. The Mark series amps use the old style Fender tones stack which is early in the preamp. These do act as tone controls, but also act as a type of volume control if one of the frequencies are cut to 0. Hence the graphic eq option which is an op-amp driven circuit to cut or boost frequencies after the gain stages. It drops in one(grid) side of the phase inverter and the presence drops in on the other(grid) and is then mixed and sent to the power amp.
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