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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: HRM Bluesmaster
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on: February 19, 2009, 10:07:11 AM
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Nik, Would it be possible to get a version which would allow to switch from standard HRM to Bluesmaster HRM, all in the same amp ?
That would be mission impossible. From the description Bluesmaster is a completely different amp. Tone stack is different, preamp plate values, dropping string PI part as well I guess. You can put all that on a switch. Just buy both.
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American Style / BF Champ, Vibro Champ / Re: A Champ is born...
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on: February 17, 2009, 08:47:02 PM
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I think even thought the extra gain is fun, the stock Tweed circuit offers more than enough gain and is more versatile and musical in the long run.
That Champ Vibrochamp difference may not be cap, it may be extra resistance in the signal path introduce by the trem circuit. In the larger Blackface Fenders, the "vibrato" circuit adds about 56K of resistance; obvious the VC uses a complete different circuit but I don't have a VC to poke around in.
Hmmm, but my vibro part is not wired, so it should not affect anything, right?
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American Style / BF Champ, Vibro Champ / Re: A Champ is born...
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on: February 17, 2009, 08:00:26 PM
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I just played the amp for the first time today (at higher volumes) and I noticed how much quieter the VibroChamp is compared to plain Champ. Not only quieter but also warmer, almost Twin like in a way. I think I like it. ...and the only difference is that cathode bypass cap. Vibro has 10uF and Champ has 2uF. Damn now you got me thinking...I could put a on-off-on switch, so I could select between 2uF - 10uF or nothing, now that would be cool. Thanks man. Back to drawing board.
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American Style / BF Champ, Vibro Champ / Re: A Champ is born...
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on: February 17, 2009, 08:42:15 AM
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If you just do the mod you have posted, you are getting soemthing a little different just Tweed 5F1 tone.
Fender had to introduce more gain in the preamp of the BF Champs to compensate for the higher resistance of the BF tone stack. Remove the tone stack and you end up with a ton of additional gain that Tweed Champs didn't have. It creates a hot-rodded, fire-breathing monster of an amp. It's a fun little crunch machine, but much, much hotter than a real Tweed Champ, and sometimes it would be nice to dial it back to get some tweed cleans.
So, to balance it out, we switch out the 2uF electrolytic coming off V1B's cathode. This creates a much more dead-on 5F1 sound out of the AA764 circuit.
Actually, I like that extra gain... it's like having an extra OD ch. The volume jump is huge but the sound is cool and I like how interactive the amp is with a guitar volume pot. Thanks for your hint... if my friend doesn't like that volume jump... I can always do what you said.
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American Style / BF Champ, Vibro Champ / Re: A Champ is born...
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on: February 17, 2009, 07:14:20 AM
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Well, I don't know what Gerald Weber Tweed mod is I found this schematic on the web somewhere, so I wired it that way and it works. I know a lot of people just lift the ground of that 15K resistor but that's not exactly it. With that you still have treble pot working. This way tone stack is completely out, just like with real Tweed Champ. Is that the basic Gerald Weber Tweed mod?
If you are switching out the Tone stack, make sure to lift the 2uF cap off the pin 8 cathode, or have it be able to switch out. otherwise you end up with a massive amount of extra gain from the loss of the tone stack.
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American Style / BF Champ, Vibro Champ / A Champ is born...
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on: February 16, 2009, 10:22:01 PM
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A friend of mine wanted a Champ bad, so I volunteered to help. I ordered a kit from Nik and he made a chassis. The one from Ceriatone was not good enough for what we had in mind. This how we started...
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: a couple mod questions
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on: February 16, 2009, 07:26:01 AM
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1) Maybe wiring your amp like HRM with Lo & Hi inputs (Fender style) is the key for you. 2) Would a clean boost help for a little more juice when switching to OD? I was lucky enough to find my ots used. Love it. There are a couple of things i'd like to mod and was hoping for some advise;
1) I would like to have both the fet and normal imput summed together when both are plugged into. When both are plugged in it defaults to the normal. I have a 1942 archtop w/ both an acoustic polymer strip type pu and a mag pu hanging from the end of the fingerboard..
2) I would like to pad the output of the clean channel by 6db or more. The reason is I like to run the clean volume knob high- more warmth in the clean channel, while also having the od trimmer set pretty low- about 9o'clock and using only a moderate amount of gain in the od channel. When set like this the ratio knob cannot entirely make up enough gain to make the od channel louder than the clean channel.
any thoughts? much thanks
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: Overtone Soundclips
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on: February 16, 2009, 07:07:32 AM
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Here is a new one, hope you'll like it
Man I love your phrasing, just beautiful. Cool pick , how did you manage to attach that little stick to the ring without falling off? I looks like your hitting the strings hard, so it must me strong.
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Ceriatone / Overtone / Re: Overtone Soundclips
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on: February 16, 2009, 06:58:55 AM
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My Les Paul works well with the non-HRM!
Marin... stop it !!!! .....or someday I'm gonna buy a LP and it will be your fault.
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