it actually works very well. gives a lil more gain, and you can always switch it back in if you want it. i def wanted the Bluesmaster tonestack, but not necessarily the HRM, so it worked out good for me

Gregg

sweeeeett!!!

I agree. Both classics!

Anyone know what the filament windinf amperage rate is on the prinzetone's PT?

This is an incredible deal!! If I didn't already have Nik working on something for me, I would go for it! It is a classic!!!!

very cool info! thanks, Greg!

yup. i use the c-lator as a global master volume. lets me push those lil 6L6WGB's and get some nice saturation. they don't last long anyway, so i might as well enjoy em it works pretty well, lets ya get a good clean sound out of it at low volumes as well.

Hammond and London Power have em in stock

agreed. the last SS amp i had was a 150w head, i wanna say it was a brand called yorkville or something. low volume clean was its forte for sure, even though it was a high wattage head. Those lil hybrids from fender like the Champ XD and the like aren't bad either.

i was kinda thinkin the same thing, i just don't know how Tone Control feels about SS amps

Awesome that you found a solution that works! As to the Jet, the clean headroom is all tube related. The trick is to find a set that saturates at a higher volume. As Tone Control originally stated, he wants a good low volume clean solution with no low end flubbiness. The BM set up I mentioned above works very well in that regard, as does the Ampeg, at low volumes. I actually had a battery powered pignose back in the day that was very clean at low volumes and wasn't flabby in the low end. Not tube powered, but very simple

I've got an Ampeg Jet II 12R that is very warm and clean at low volumes. It does saturate fairly quickly above about 6 or so, especially with the reissue Mullard EL84's in it, but with the Reissue Gold Lions and some 7025's in the pre amp it is very warm and clean indeed. Some literature suggests that it is a Class A amp, some sources say it is Class AB, so i can't tell you for certain. It does not get flubby in the bass at all, unless you dime the bass control at full volume, and that is with the stock speaker, and i have had the amp since 1994.

another solution involves the BM50, but is a little unorthodox and requires a c-lator, which i can't recall if you use or not. I have been fiddling around with mine quite a bit lately, trying to get Freddie Kings nice warm, yet bright non flubby sound that was a clean, yet overdriven sound, you know the type. He tended to use big clean amps pushed hard, like dual showmans, twin reverbs, concert amps, etc. The big key, though was that he set all the tone controls except the treble to ZERO. I figured the BM is close to a BF fender, so i gave it a shot. First, i pulled the larger 6L6's out and put the JAN Phillips 6L6WGB's back in, and biased them at 42 mA (the lowest i can get them with my current bias circuit). Those little tubes have a much tighter bass response and better upper mid and treble response as well. then i ran all the tone controls to zero, including the presence, and turned the treble up to 10. I turned all the bright switches off, midboost off, and deep off set the preamp volume to 7 (about 1 or 2 o clpck), the master to about 10, set the drive control on the c-lator to about 1 clock, input wide open, about 5 clock, and used the out to control the overall volume per normal. Bear in mind i have Weber 1265 Alnico speakers, which are not as dark as standrard g12-65's, they are a bit more warm and bright, rather than dark and wooly. I gotta tell ya, it sounds gorgeous! Nice and warm and clean, a little dirty if you dig into hard, and gets a nice warm overdrive saturation sound if you use a nice clean boost pedal, or in my case engage the mega PAB. Very smooth singing overdrive sound, and a nice warm overdriven power chord type sound, not crunchy at all. If you don't have a clean boost or dislike the PAB you can crank the drive control up on the c-lator as well, and it can yield the same results, very nice indeed. Also, unless you engage the deep switch, it is NOT flubby at all, and you can control the volume quite effectively with the c-lator, and since the master is up quite high on the amp itself, it is very lively. Mind you this is all on the CLEAN channel, not the OD. The OD side is even more fun! give it a try!

I rarely switch mine back on either. Originally I just bypassed it and didn't even put a switch on it for about a month or so

Nik normally won't do this mod, but it isn't hard to do. I will say this, without the HRM tonestack, the OD channel can get kinda bright, if you have really bright speakers, maybe too much so. Most people will used the OD channel on HRM amps with the PAB engaged and tune the HRM tonestack accordingly "set and forget" as they say. I have a modded switchable PAB circuit (more gain) and when it is in more PAB mode, i found that the HRM took "something" away, that's why i have my HRM switchable. In most cases it actually is a benefit, and once you get it tuned right, it is a beautiful thing 

yup. I was looking at the 504 layout. Doh! My bad guys