Hey all!
I have an OTS 50W with built in C-lator in the head cab coming very soon just in time for all of my Super Bowl related gigs (14 nights straight!).  Because I will be cutting it close to the deadline I won't have time to noodle and tweak.  I basically need it to sound great and be ready to use upon arrival.  I just got done building a 2x12 vertical cab with 2 long ports on each side (I ripped the idea from Forte 3D Cabs.  Check it our for reference here http://www.fortemusical.com/3d2x12vertical.html).  I bought WGS et65 and Reverend 30 speakers because I heard it was a great combo.  Do you guys think this should be a good setup?  Also I have an OCD, ZenDrive which I probably won't use because this is already a D-style amp, TS808, and DD7 delay- will run in C-Lator, oh and my standard crybaby wah.  Any setting suggestions.  I am a midrange freak with a few exceptions.  I play sounds similar to Joe Bonamassa, Sanatana, Jeff Beck, Warren Haynes, and Trey Anastagio.  I imagine I need a reverb pedal to top it all off though.  Due to the time constraints I would very much appreciate any help for go to settings.  BTW the speakers are 16ohm parallel to 8ohm output brand new so not broken in.  Would you also suggest some diffuser panels (those circular foam things) mounted over the speakers to stop beaming?   THANKS!!!!!!

Well, i'll tell ya it will be a completely different animal once it breaks in. If you can before your gigs, i would hook it up to a cd player and let it burn in for about 12 hours, it willhelp smooth it out. There's a lot to breakin these OTS amps in. Other than that your rig sounds very good for the amp. I'd bring your OD pedals, just in case the OD isn't quite to your liking yet. It can take some tweaking and break in time to get it just right.

Gregg

I bypassed the HRM on my Bluesmaster a while back I've actually stopped using overdrive pedals, i am just using a clean boost in the front end of the amp, well actually a boosta grande, which adds a touch of mids. I can actually get pretty nice drive out of the clean channel with it as well. If i want i nice fat uncompressed drive sound, i can drive the clean channel with the clean boost either alone or with the PAB if i want more hair. It is nice, fat, reponsive, and punchy. I use the OD side if i want a more gainy, compressed, singing, but still raunchy (it is an non hrm bluesmaster, after all) sound. I put a JAN GE 5751 in V2 and run the OD without HRM, drive around 6 out of 10, and it sounds like a cranked early marshall. step on the boost and it will sing for days, add the PAB and it will sing forever! Love it!

I broke mine in by running is through an old stereo that has the positive and negative terminals on the back for probably about 25 hours. I wouldn't hook it up to the amp, just the speaker (mainly cause I wouldn't wanna run the amp for that long). It was a mix of some dynamic songs, types of noise (brown, white, pink etc) and then some different frequency tones (1hz etc).

Before I did that it was so brittle that it would hurt your ears when playing and I couldn't dial those highs out. So break the speaker in as much as you can and also play it cause it'll take a bit to dial and get used to what the controls do, although it isn't overly complicated to use, just unconventional.

So you just plugged your iPod in where you would normally plug your guitar in and ran the whole rig (OTS plugged into Speaker Cab)?  This would make sense so the amp's tubes would heat up and work while the speakers would get a work out too.  I just am unsure if I can plug the iPod right into same spot I would plug my guitar in.  I plan on playing music  and jamming this thing quite a bit now before I gig.  This will be a lot of hours squeezed in a short period but I think I can do it. 

Thank a lot Gregg.  Funny you say that.  Tons of construction is being done downtown indy trying to squeezed thing in for next weekend 9,500 people have been out of power downtown today not even the stoplights are working!  They blew a transformer.  I am waiting by the door for the amp to arrive and will take your advice for sure.  I work from home and play music from my computer during office days.  I could work up a 24 period in no time if I let it play through the night.  Great idea and thanks.  All I need is a 3.5 male to 1/4 inch adapter right?

Yeah I remember checking out your diagram for that mod - where did you put the switch Greg?

Cheers

Kieran

Cheers for that Gregg - I have a 100 watter so I'll need to see if I can squeeze a toggle switch in somewhere else. I have to replace the pilot light on mine so I'll maybe give it a go while I'm doing that...

Kieran