Hey,

I'm new here. I got my ots mini a few months ago. I originally got a 1x12 orange cab with a celestion vintage 30 speaker in it. I have a fender stratocaster with vintage noisless pickups. When I first played through it I noticed it sounded very thin and "tinny", kind of like how a guitar could sound if you just used a line in for recording. I figured the problem was the speaker since all the clips on youtube I heard sounded a lot more full; so I switched out the v30 for a g12h-75. Sounds better now but it still sounds a bit too tinny for my tastes. I've played my guitar in other amps and didn't have the same problem. I mainly notice this when I'm recording or am directly infront of the speaker. Can anyone help?

I too thought this lil amp was a bit bright when I first got it and the OD was kind of buzzy with a farty low end... Sounded just ok with my LP and 335 but a bit bright with the strat. But alas, I'm a strat guy...I had bought a tonetubby low watt alnico12" hemp to try ( as I'm a bedroom play these days) but it turned out to be a bit boxy sounding ( it sounds great in SFDR tho')...I had a very old EVM 12s that I put into a small , open back pine cab and that helped a lot. So I decided to wait a while and let the amp break in some more but it never quite got as warm as I hoping for.  What really did the trick was to put EH12ax7 in V1,V2 and Sovtek12ax7LPS in V3( all from Doug's) which really smoothed out the overall tone and has added a 3D vibe...now this is one sweet sound with my strat ( the strat has Kerry Learned '64 pups).  I think the JJ's  pre-amp tubes were a bit harsh sounding for my taste. There is still a few mods I"d like to try, but at this moment I'm happy with it so far. I also got the Klienulator which adds a bit more control to the overall tone.