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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: Indicator light blown?
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on: March 24, 2011, 02:35:03 AM
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Hi the 5mm LED sounds like a great idea as my indicator bilb has blown a few times
The LED'd i've seen online though are only approx 2volts not 6volts like the bulbs, will this do any damage?
just add a 470R resistor and a 1n4007 diode and you'll be fine. |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: 183
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on: March 13, 2011, 08:11:24 PM
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That's crazy good sounding!
I just got my HRM 50 built and doing the initial power up routine. I can only hope mine will sound as good.
Very nice indeed!
It will eventually, but not 'right out the package' remember it takes 80-100 hours before it has matured. |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: Bluesmaster Bass/lack of brightness problems solved!! *kinda long read*
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on: February 20, 2011, 07:41:02 AM
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Hello plasticvonaband, This is first time for me to write here. I am not a native English speaker, so, sorry for my poor English. I don't know much about amps' technologies, either.  I also purchased HRM Blues master 50W model in last November, and I have been having the same problems you had and dissatisfaction about this amp. Too much bass and dull treble, flat and not sexy tones (not like Fender amps), and harsh overdrive sound (it's not creamy at all as I expected for the D-style amps). I read your topic and knew that you made your amp's normal sounds better changing the preamp-tubes to SOVTEK 12AX7WA. Were you able to get a better overdrive sound by that arragement, too? One thing I didn't understand was that what the SAG switch was. I asked them to install 1/2 power switch and PI Trimmer, and it has OD trimmer, too. But it seems like SAG switch is the different thing. Is that a special one you only have or all HRM bluesmaster has somewhere inside? Anyway, I am going to start changing the preamp-tubes. I hope that it will work well to me, too  Hi there, I really dont' agree about those sowtek WA. In my experience the are brittle and harsh. I can recommend JJ ECC83S for V1 and V2. And for V3 the best tube IMO is the Sovtek LPS, which is easy to adjust proporly with the PI balance. I use Tungsol 6L6CG's in my 50w bluesmaster and it sounds great. My first Bluesmaster had a 100w output section with EL34s and those were the reason why that particular amp was much too bass heavy and lacked treble. That particular amp (with EL34s) is now converted to a #183 and has become much more allive. |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: HRM Internal Tone Stack and PAB: A *possibly* different approach?
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on: February 20, 2011, 07:30:35 AM
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I've had some thoughts along this line too. Being locked into one od tone, no matter how excellent it is, doesn't seem like an ideal situation. What I'd like to do is find some empty space on the bottom or back of the chassis, room enough for 3 small pots, and drill holes, and install some pots, and sub them for the trimmers that are buried inside the amp. Finding a good place is the trick I think - you'd want the wire run to be fairly short, and away from other electrical interference. Hmmm...
Hi Guys, I build an amp with a HRM board with pots instead of trimmers. Instead of mounting it on top of the component board, I put in under the board, with the pots trhout the chassis so that I was able to adjust the pots with the chassis mounted in the amp head cabinet. Worked fine. Check out Glaswerks and VVT amps that have the pot on the chassis front, which is ven more handy. However, it took me a long time to get the pots adjusted/ finding the sweet spot. And once I found that sweet spot, I wished I had put TRIMMERS on the board, so I wouldnt be at risk touching thos knobs by accident and thereby loosing the sweet spot. So in conslusion I personally cannot reccomend regular pots over trimpots. |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: Chasing the blues and David gilmour "on an island" tone
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on: February 14, 2011, 03:30:17 PM
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Hey guys,
I just bought a 2011 fender hot rod deluxe 2x12 combo.
Still don't feel i am getting that gilmour Hiwatt "on an island" lead tone.
Some clips of the overtone specials (not HRM) models seem to come close............
.............................What's the best overtone or ceriatone for me ?
All you need is a Boss SE70 and you're in business  : http://www.jurriaanbeckers.com/SE702gilmourclean.htmOn the 'On an Island' record, Dave Gilmour used an old Fender Twin reverb. The Overtone Bluesmaster will get you close to that sound. However, I'm pretty sure that Dave Gilmour would sound almost the same on your new Hot Rod Deluxe. So all you need is a little practice and a 700 mS delay. Please find below a quote from an article in 'Sound on Sound' magazine, july 2006, about the recording David Gilmours 'On an Island': During live Pink Floyd concerts, David Gilmour was renowned for using a lot of guitar effects and big amplifiers. I was curious to know what setup he used for recording. "Everyone asks what reverbs David uses, and the answer is none! He uses delays, and it's usually around 700 milliseconds or so. That's on his pedalboard, but apart from that there's probably only one or two different distortion boxes and maybe a compressor. It's not that complex — it's just finely tinkered with and he's got some nice guitars and good fingers. The amp was generally an old Fender Tweed Twin Reverb, with a little bit from his Hi-Watts occasionally. When he's recording at home, he just kind of sticks that Sony mic in a non-specific place in front of the speaker and I tried to replicate that in the studio, but it wasn't really working in our room. Chris wanted to stick an SM57 on it, maybe four inches from the grille cloth and a bit off-axis, but then I put a Coles 4040 ribbon mic next to it, dead in the middle of the cone, and we found that mixing that in behind the 57 really worked. What you hear is mainly the 57, but when you bring up the Coles, the sound just goes 'expensive'. Nearly all the guitar I recorded ended up being done like that — you just have to be really careful about the mic positions and make sure both are exactly the same distance from the speaker.
"Some of the guitars would be from David's home recording as he has a similar amp and effects setup at home. In fact on the guitar solo for 'On An Island' where there are two guitars, the first is a Les Paul and the second one a Strat. He recorded the Les Paul at home using the Sony mic and I recorded the Strat in the studio using the SM57 and the Coles ribbon, so if you want to hear how the two approaches compare, that's a good place to do it.http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul06/articles/andyjackson.htm |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: New to the forum and the OTS
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on: February 01, 2011, 07:39:21 AM
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Also curious about the effects loop. I've read some of the threads on the C-lator and Klein, but what I don't understand is, are one of these is required to run effects in the loop?
The dumblelator should be regarded as an integrated part of the sound system/amp. Yes, you can run effects without it, but thats not really the point of the dumblelator. Robben Ford's sound is created with the Dumble #102 amp PLUS a dumblelator PLUS a TC2290. The dumblelator adds a little compression and smoothen the sound of the amp. This is the main reason you NEED a C-lator/Dumblelator. Period. |
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: New to the forum and the OTS
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on: January 28, 2011, 02:55:05 PM
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Hi great,
To 'see' a new face.
Perhaps you should download the manual from ceriatones homepage.
It pretty much explains the basics about the amp and how to set it up properly.
Regards
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