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on: January 17, 2012, 01:42:51 PM
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on my HC 30 (well almost, it's an HC-34 actually, with EL34 tubes - but exact same preamp), the EF86 - channel 2 - is the CLEANISH side, & the twin ECC83 - channel 1- is the drive side. This was confirmed by Nik, & whenever I use the amp, EF86 side is the natural Robert Cray side, with lots of chime but still with a wonderful spank, & channel one can nail marshall tones,. Think Jimmy Page/Billy Gibbons in their prime. Whenever I try to push the EF86, it feels inadequate & not really at home. Just this persistant chime that I don't look for in overdriven tones... PLUS it does have more headroom that the dual ECC83s. This is Nik builder-notes & my experience & confirmation after 2 years gigging that amp.
Yes, but the creme brulee was designed to go from spanky jangly voxish clean, to overdrive, to crunchy goodness, has a MV, switches down to 7 watts, and performs well at low volume. All things the OP seem to be looking for. Gregg |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: NEW OTS and CAB day soon.... need a lot of help!!!
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on: January 17, 2012, 10:46:40 AM
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Gregg
Any idea what Nik sets the HRM trimmers when he sends them out - I'm wondering if the mids on my Bluesmaster OD could be increased..I'll search the forum for this too...
Edit - yeah the search has given me plenty to ponder - I don't want to change any components but I might try increasing the mid HRM trimmer just a hair to see if that helps...
OD trimmers from Ceriatone are Treble & Mids @ 10:30 Bass Barely on |
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on: January 17, 2012, 09:40:24 AM
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one idea i had was taking the low input out, since i never use it anyway, and put a pot in there for the HRM stack so i can have dialed all the way or mix it in to whatever degree i like, or just put the switch there. I just don't know if i would use it that much. It's almost too smooth with the HRM on  |
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on: January 17, 2012, 08:33:18 AM
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I'm surprised no one has commented back to you so far. The amp is an alleged 30 watt "Vox AC30 on steroids". I'm not sure about the metered wattage or the decibel reading, I CAN tell you that when I first plugged in and tried to play at volume 5 @ 30 watts (full power switch on) The treble (at 5 w/ treble cut at 5) through a custom 2x12 with Webers, the result was inducing involuntary, lip curling winces. This is the most aggressive 30 watts I've ever heard. I have some friends with 120 watt Crates with 4x12s and a 100 W Marshall also with a 4x12. I need to do a 1 to 1 with them, but I suspect this amp will hold its own. I know the output from 60 W Crate I had pales in comparison. The real plus is that the tone is phenomenal! I can roll back and forth a digit or two on the guitar volume at any setting and go from jazz clean to metal head crunch. If this is the lowest gain Trainwreck, I think I'm actually afraid of the Liverpool and Expression repros.
Thanks for coming back to me (luckily I'm a patient man...). What I really wanted to know was whether you can get a decent amount of Overdriven tone at usable volumes..?? everything i've read (and heard) suggests that if you want reasonable volumes and overdrive out of this amp you either need: 1) an attenuator or 2) A MV or VVR #2 goes against Ken's orignal design and would probably effect the tone alot. Have you looked at Nik's Creme Brulee? It is the EF86 (overdrive/crunchy side) of the DC30/AC30. Lots of gain at much lower volume. |
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on: January 16, 2012, 04:50:56 PM
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you can, just be sure to turn the volume on your ipod down. I turned mine down to half. I listen to music when i sleep, so that was an easy eight hours a day right there I'm a light sleeper, so if for some reason the power went out or anything i would wake up and shut it all down and unplug it, incase there was a brown out or a surge. Don't leave it unattended. Depending on your speakers it can sound anywhere from good to grating, though. Apparently the Weber 1265 Alnico's are pretty musical, so it was a pleasure. Set the eq on your ipod flat, or to Jazz, crank the bass on your amp up to 10, mids around 7 and treble around 8 and adjust the presence to taste, and it should be fine. I just played all my jazz and classical through it, and occasional booty music, to help loosen the speakers up. Gregg |
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on: January 16, 2012, 08:17:41 AM
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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.
That's good for breaking in the speakers, but not the amp. The amp itself needs a good burn in. i ran mine whenever i was at home at moderate volume with my ipod plugged into the input. whatever you plug into it, be sure you can pad the output of, as it will be line level and can cause some problems (you'll hear if it the level is too high) I played mix of everything through it to open er up and loosen the speakers up. between actually playing guitar through it and playing music thru it, from the time the amp arrived from Nik to my first lil gig i had about 60 hours of burn in time. Sounded amazing! |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: NEW OTS and CAB day soon.... need a lot of help!!!
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on: January 15, 2012, 07:19:10 AM
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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! |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: NEW OTS and CAB day soon.... need a lot of help!!!
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on: January 14, 2012, 03:05:03 PM
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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
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