What's the Vet 30 for?

Yeah, I decided to put some of my equipment in the sig lastnight. I just put up the other acoustic I have. It was late and I couldn't remember the exact model number.

But yeah, the Tacoma is a very nice guitar. Solid Sitka top & nicely figured Koa sides & back. The other is a 12 string Seagull. A less expensive guitar, but still a nice guitar.

The reason I asked is I was considering this same thing. As you know I've been playing through a Vintage 30 and even though it doesn't get much praise here, I can get it to sound decent. Plus supposedly the Vet 30 is voiced a bit differently to smooth out the mid spike.

Something tells me the ET65 & Vet 30 would be a killer combination.

I finally got around to adjusting mine the other day. mine took a little more twiddling to get the balance where i wanted it due to the fact that my PI tube is one of the Mullard CV4024's with "balanced" triodes, and brother they mean balnced!! I had to set the trimmer to 3'o clock (looking from the rear of chassis to the front) to get the voltage difference of about 6 volts, and then about 4'o clock to get it where it wanted it. It does take a little more of inbalance on the HRM BM (at least on mine) to get that bloom, but when it gets there it is tonal nirvana, and when i engage the Mega PAB holy crap!!!

I was about to sell my Strat because it sounded like crap through the BM (awesome amps can show either how good or bad your guitar is), but after tweaking the PI trimer, i have fallen in love with my strat again, and all my other axes sound even better now.

That being said, i don't think it's voodoo either, but i encourage everyone to give it a try, especially if you are using non stock PI tubes...

Hope this helps!

Gregg

i should probably restate what i said

i think it's more in my head than anything not so much that it sounded bad, just wasn't getting quite what i wanted out of it. sounded good, but not great, and indeed when i put the meter on the pi trimmer circuit it was perfectly balanced, ie no voltage difference V3a and V3b at all, so the "balanced" triodes were doing what they were designed to do, and the amp sounded great and, well, balanced, for lack of a better term, but didn't quite get the bloom as i was after. after i made the adjustment though, i got that elusive bloom and all is well.
i think it had more to do with the tube that anything, not that it was bad, just that it is a lower gain tube and set up to be balanced and needed a little help getting that voltage swing. Long story short, making that adjustment made a great amp sound even greater

i'm doin the dc voltage difference that nik has in the manual. you are correct of, course i should be doing measurent in AC with a tone generator, just haven't gotten around to it yet. Although, if i have it set to where it sounds good now, is it worth doing it via the tone generator method, or should i just leave it alone for now and let it ride?