How to get rid of some Stiffness

captainbackfire
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Re: How to get rid of some Stiffness

« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2012, 12:30:55 PM »

Quote from: plasticvonaband on October 09, 2012, 11:59:29 PM

Quote from: captainbackfire on October 09, 2012, 01:53:25 PM

Thanks for the help guys. I'm definitely getting ideas here and will update y'all for any luck getting rid of the fast attack feel.

I guess you could try disconnecting the NFB, don't know if this makes the OTS terribly unstable and oscillate or not.

I've always wanted to try this mod but I cant seem to get a clear description from anybody as to what it does exactly to the tone. When you say too fat is it like gainy, middy or just bigger sounding. I also wanna know how it reacts to preamp vol and master settings.

And btw, does this just invole clipping/ removing the orange drop along with the 2 resistoes it connects to?

@ HRK Yeah you def have a point. I don't have quite enough opportunity to play freely on real loud levels with this yet. But I can say that the stiffness doesn't completely go away with higher vol. Even at gigs I can't turn it up btw, its a very loud 50 watts indeed. Maybe much louder than my twin reverb before. Or any twin r's I've tried for that matter.


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Re: How to get rid of some Stiffness

« Reply #16 on: December 05, 2012, 12:33:16 AM »

Anybody know much about Output Transformers? I have some impressions and assumptions on how ot's affect tone and respone in an amp based on thing I read and my little experience. Please correct me if im wrong;

1. More efficient OT's give great non flubby drive sound but makes the clean sound brittle or stiff because of fast attack

2. All upgrade OT's or the ones that are revered are supposedly more efficient

3. Upgrading to a *larger OT is different that upgrading to a mercury magnetics or such... If so, how?

3.5. Are Dumbles in general less snappy? Cause I think I really cannot get the chirp out of my strat. I used to play a thin sounding BJr but at least its snappy on sincle coils. Could it be my solo g12 65? My upgrade OT? Or do you disagree that D style amps aren't snappy? Sorry for some repeated questions from back in this thread.

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4. What is the 'effin difference with "punch" and "attack"? How do they relate to "compression" cause to me those are opposites and you know, some people and even musical instrument companies use the words punch and compression together to describe one product and it baffles me. Also with chirp and snap, could you have compression only or punch only. both? I would say if you have snap and chirp you have compression. When you have punch, ...no actually now I have no ide what punch is. Its veryy ambiguous and overused to my ear.


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Re: How to get rid of some Stiffness

« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2012, 12:49:18 AM »

Try a 12AY7 in V3 (PI) position. I have an EH 12AY7 in my OTS 100. It makes the amp warmer and takes away some of the stiffness you speak of.
It`s a very cheap & easy mod and if you don`t like it, you could always place the 12AY7 into V2 for a smoother overdrive.
12AY7 is very compatible as a substitute to a 12AX7. It will produce less gain, but is warmer than 12AX7 tubes tend to be when pushed into high gain situations.


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