This afternoon I had the pleasure of spending about 4 hours playing through 2 Bludotones, a Fuchs prototype, Fuchs 30, and another D clone plus my OTS.  The majority of the time was spent alternating between the Bludos and my OTS while swapping tubes and making minor adjustments to a couple of caps, lead dress and the trimmers.

All these amps were great sounding and all of them were from the same tone family, but yet each was slightly different in feel and overall tonal "color".

I agree completely with Pickmaster, the OTS OD tone does stand shoulder to shoulder with the non-HRM Bludo.  There were some differences in feel and overall tone, but at this level of the stratosphere you are starting to split hairs and getting into personal preferences.  The Bludos were absolutely amazing and kicked ass plus had Robben Ford tones in spades.  I was real happy to hear how the OTS performed through a couple of Celestion 1265's.  Plenty of Ford tones to be had.

My amp sounded best with Svetlana winged C 6L6's, the difference was pretty dramatic to my ears.  Creamier sounding then the JJ's  Nik really has something going on with the OTS.  It's a great deal and a real tone machine.

Jim

Thanks.  Correct me if I'm wrong here before I solder anything.  One 22M resistor is on the small board behind the switches and the other is behind the Treble pot.  Both connected to the switches.  There is already a 4.7M resistor connected to the ground buss.  Leave that one as is.

Thanks for taking the time to weigh in on this.

I'm thinking in terms of something that would not affect the sound of either channel with the tone stack engaged but would allow you to dial in the tone and amount of boost that happens when the PAB comes on.  Seems like the first step would be to be able to decrease the amount of boost somewhat.

How do we get this thread made a sticky?

1. The amp seems to have a 'mid-monster inside' - I see people getting very sparkling clean tones out of the amp, but mine just won't do it. Also I noticed the 'high' & 'bass' knobs do a lot, but the 'mid' knob only makes very little difference in the sound when turning from 0 to 10. With my 60 Strat, the mids are always over-pronounced, and I just can't get rid of them. When engaging the boost by footswitch, the only thing left is mids. It sounds like a blanket is put in front of the cab.

2. When engaging the mid-boost by footswitch, the volume doubles (at all 'master' settings). Is there any way to reduce the volume increase? As it is, the boost is not usable even when I dial in a 'rythm-volume' sound - when engaging the boost the output doubles, which is just too loud.

3. When switching from 'rock to 'jazz', I loose a lot of volume. Even with the master & input both on '10', I cannot compete with the rest of the band in the 'jazz' setting.

4. When engaging the overdrive-switch, I must set 'drive' & 'ratio' both below 3 in order not to get a volume increase in comparison to clean volume. I have seen zucker's vid's on youtube, where he demonstrates the amp with all knobs on 5, and the volume seems to be quite even on all clean & OD settings?