have you thought about using a 10M pot instead? in series with a 10M resistor so you can have variable PAB gain?

the other pedal i use is a cheap pedal by Biyang called the x-Drive. its basically a tube screamer with iterchangeable chips. the unit comes with 3 chips,.....however i have installed the Burr brown OPA1234 dual op -amp (not supplied with teh pedal) which is much cleaner and transparent... its a great pedal for little money

i have used these with great success:

http://www.audioloudspeakers.co.uk/tayden_sonicdiffuser.shtml

hi guys
i have been using the TC electronics VPD1 with my HRM50. its absolutely fantastic...like a rangemaster with some tubescreamer added in. it also has two levels of boost which are settable.


the overall sound is transparent  and most controllable. my strat sounds really alive in my hands with this pedal through the amp.

i have found on teh HRM it has little effect until almost up full

the HRM is counter intuitive in settings ......for a les paul i tend to back off the input gain and leave the bright inactive
for a strat...i wind up the input gain and pull out the bright switch....and also back off the mids.... the amp somehow responds better to singles like this....it shines and is ever so nasty

i guess i am not interested in the robben ford tone...but instead cleaner bluesier tones like albert king, Peter Green ... and i find my strat has a certain punch in the jazz mode which you cant get on the rock setting (SRV tones). also the PAB is much less gritty in this mode

yes i use the jazz setting almost exclusively

its tight, clear and punchy when cranked

i usually have to wind the bass up to maybe 2oclock, mids at 9

and with the PAB engaged its luscious and focussed

i do use it with a klein and find it sounds much better with the klein wound up a little

i also found that it takes pedals better in this setting

thanks soundperf
i have an EV12L in the combo and a G1265 in a 112 cab
i mainly use the Jazz setting and wind the bass up. bright active on the input.
i wind the Klein up to around 3/4 ... makes the amp sing

the EV12L took around 12 months to break in but it sounds so sweet with a big bottom....

here is one of my trio playing earlier this year

sorry its a long clip... but dont have time at the moment to shorten it

amp is 50W HRM with Klein

guitars are Edwards ELP130 with duncan antiquities, and partsocaster with lipstick pickups

as already stated... yes the g12-65 at 15ohms will be fine

i use one with my amp in a 112 extension cab.

may  i suggest that you use a 15 ohm g1265... so that if you also wish to use the other speaker as well then you can have the two in parallel, resulting in 8 ohm

mixing 8 and 16 ohm will not give the right impedance match with your amp

booster pedals are to individual taste

i use 2:

1: biyang X-DRIVE which is a tubescreamer type pedal with interchangeable chips...i generally set this for a mild to clean boost OD
2: TC VPD1 which is excellent...its a clean boost and over the top type of bost as well...and allows a "cocked wah" style of tone setting as well.

i tend to use these minimally though... i find the HRM and PAB are usually enough for 95% of what i need

real men eat vegemite!!

hey guys

i sell speakers and guitar parts and get good deals on EV12L's if interested

just get in touch and i'll do my best i can.... a HRM without an EV is like a Monaro without mags...lol

hey mate

great to see another aussie in here
i have a HRM as well

are you in melb?