"Sweetspot" on Master?

[cellardweller]

Specifically (though not exclusively!) any with experience with Single Rectos....
Where do you find the "sweetspot" to be on the master?

I haven't pushed it past 10:30 yet.... :wink:

 

[mikeweber74]

I set it between 9:00 and 11:00. Anything around 12:00 and higher sounds pretty bad...brittle and fizzy. Since mostly playing at bedroom levels and I set master and output both around 9:00.

 

[stephen sawall]

It depends on what channel, amount of gain, how the tone controls are set, your guitar and pickups, tubes, speaker and cabs you use. ..... and most important what sound you are going for.

If you are trying to get a Plexi type sound. Turn the master in the 11 ~ 5 o'clock range and turn up the mids. The clean channel get the pretty close to this sound. But you can get other voices from the other channels.
The cleans can be set with a very very low gain with the master just about dime for a great Fender twin like feel.
The lead sounds on the Orange channel well sound good up to about 2.
Metal I like the red channel up to about 11 for my taste.

I use a THD Hot Plate so I can do this and control the volume.
You well hear the sweet spot when you hit it.

 

[coppa]

On my solo 50 Ive been running the master on the red channel at about 10:30, and the green channel at about 9:00 or 8:00 I find it balances out the levels quite well.

anything past noon on any channel causes some weird oscillations on my amp.

 

[Areola]

My master is maxed out. Always. Thats' the only way to play

 

[cellardweller]

My master is maxed out. Always. Thats' the only way to play

@ 11?

 

[screamingdaisy]

I find it depends on where you set the channel masters. I used to run my main master between 11:00 and 1:00 (any higher and it sounded bad), but my channel masters were respectively low (around 10:00).

Anyway, the only way to really know based on your settings is to experiment. Turn the amp up until the power amp starts to compress a bit... this should be where it thickens up and really start to roar... that's the bottom of your sweet spot. Now, turn it up until it over-compresses and starts sounding like crap, then back it down until it sounds good. That's the top of your sweet spot.