my tech was too busy last week, says that the mods are only about 1hrs work but I played this weekend so couldnt leave the amp with him. He should get to it this week!

Are u in Australia by any chance?

mmnnnnn a little rounder tone a little less aggressive. I just swapped em back after your post to remeber the diff lol.

 im running a nos jan phillips in 1 and a nos rca in 2 and now a stock JJ 12at7 in 3.

Ive just changed out my 12ax7 in pos 3 for a 12at7 and it sounds really good. A little less gain but much sweeter sounding cleans.

anyone had a similar experience?

thanks for the info, btw (and im gonna sound like a noob) what the hell is the choke and why do some say that Niks needs replacing?

ie "oh ive replaced niks iron for mm and also changed the choke and now the amp is awesome"

Ok quick question,

If the mercury magnetics transformer is better than Niks standard iron then how and why and will i hear the diff?

Anyone?

Hey stratultra the mods are being done later this week. and yes im running a clator. Ive neber been totally happy with the cleans from the FM ME, not glassy fendery enough for me, a little too much growl in them so hopefully this will sort that out.

OK now, i do love my ceriatone and will love it more after pickmasters TR CR clean mods are done (this week) and ............................ last week in a moment of weakness I bought a Two Rock Gainmaster 35. So I really loved some of the tones and was kinda thinkin that it might replace my ceriatone (blasphemy). But after having it for a week, and really workin the settings, I couldnt get it to sound as good as my ceriatone! Supposedly it has the same basic circuit as the Ts-1, the full on dumble two rock, but the creamy, cello like musical overdrive just wasnt in it no matter what I did. In all honesty the cleans were better but after the aforementioned mods,  my OTS will be killer!

So I gave it back!!

Now in fairness it was still an awesome amp but in no way was it going to replace my OTS! Not on its best day!

My local Two Rock dealer is getting a Ts-1 for another customer and im really keen to play it against my OTS, i'll keep you posted................

yup it was the power amp tubes. im using NOS sylvanias and they sound sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

so the tubes were running at 32 miliamps, so too low and were giving some crossover distortion on the cleans. Now rebiased and running up at 40 miliamps with 70% disipation.

(to the amp tech gurus i apologise if the above wasnt expressed in the correct way lol!)

anyway, now all good!

I use mine to give another channel on my ots. Set for low gain it fills a gap left from clean to the od channel on the amp and then the pab. So I go

ch1 - clean
zen - edgy rythms
ch2 - leads (or more dirty rythms)
ch2 pab - hangin it all out.

it gives me the same ots (dumble flavour) at a lower gain setting than ch2.

thanks mate, where do you run your voltages?

tried that...........no joy

hey all, im getting some breakup with my ots fm me on the clean channel. its only when i hit the strings (but not all that hard, I never break strings) .Here is the rundown

thought it was my fx so took em outa the loop,.............didnt fix it so

disconneted my clator.....................didnt fix it so

changed guitars and leads.....................didnt fix it so

changed speaker boxes....................didnt fix it so

played with the input gain.....................didnt fix it so

replaced the tubes one by one.....................didnt fix it so

now im stuck!!!!!!!!!!!!

could it be related to the lnfr?
ideas?

ive seen a current shot of RF s setup. Not from his fansite but really recent ie weeks old not months or years. It definately had the Zen back in (not the dumkudo) and has modulation and time based effects going into the front of his dumble. Nothing was in the loop. I dont even know of RF uses a dumbleator type product.

It made me experiment with everything out front and while my reverb is really accentuated with the od channel engaged, everything else sounds good!!

go figure?!!