What channel are you using?  What are your settings?  I’m interested in trying this

 

Turned it on tonight and got no volume.  Tubes will light up, but I get little to no volume.  Checked all of the cords and get a lot of buzzing and popping on the effect loop cords

Just changed the tubes a couple of months ago.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Jim.             

Just wondering what others are using for tubes in a 2550?

 

Can anyone help?

Just noticed last night that the volume fades in and out.  It never goes completely silent, just comes and goes.  Then I can turn the amp off for a while and it's back to normal.  Using a delay in the loop and a Big Bloom out front.

Is it time to look at new tubes?  I've never changed the tubes before.

We all see each other on here all of the time.  I was just thinking we ought to tell each other what equipment we have, where we live, and what we do for a living.  might be interesting.

Live in Fremont, WI  USA

Have a 50 watt 2550 and a FM - 50

Guitars are an R8, MIM Tele and a Roadworn 60's strat.

I work for a paper company and travel around fixing core winder equipment.

Care to share?           

Pickmaster, I'd love to see your settings for distortion.  I just get kind of a fizzy, heavy bass sound.

Still haven't been able to find that blooming / on the verge of feedback thing yet.

Spent the first couple of days with a delay and a verb in the C-lator and playing straight into the amp.  Cleans are great!

Just starting to play with the foot switch now.  I've got the trim (back of the amp on about 10:00.  Does single coil SRV well.  THis is not a Van Halen amp for distortion.  But, I've got the 2550 for more of that kind of sound.  Still have not played them together yet.

So many bright switches, so little time.

Just got it this afternoon.  Wow!  Anyone want to suggest where to start with this amp?  Lot's of tweaking to be done.  C-Lator seems to work fine.

Suggestions on where to start with the settings?  Also, I've never seen one before, but it does not say FM anywhere on the amp.  It says Overtone Special by Ceriatone.  Is that correct?

I was thinking someone on here to make them.  I've never even seen the cable itself in a store.  My FM 50 is due for delivery next week.  It's been a long wait, and if the 400 cables are the best way to go, I'd like to do it right.

I just have never put cables together before and have no idea where to even start or what materials / tools I would need.  I just play guitar.  I don't change my own oil either.

COuld you tell me how to do it?  Or, if you want to make up a set, I live in Wisconsin.

I'm not capable of putting them together myself.  Does anyone sell them ready to plug and play?

 

My overview overview was derived by going through all of the pages in the Overtone section of the forum and writing down anything about basic information and tones.  My BM 50 is still yet to arrive.  Another 2 weeks.

I did order the C-lator built into the cab from Nik.

more info

FYI
•   On HRM, clean and OD channels have separate master volumes
•   On Non-HRM, they share an master volume.
•   When you add a Dumbleator, the return line is the master volume.
Non-HRM’s come to harmonic feedback easily.  Mid-heavy.   Rich w / sustain.  Emphasis on mid harmonics.  More singing sustain.  OTS will sound a little warmer on the clean side compared to S&M.
HRM’s – more dynamic and percussive, very touch sensitive.  Less OD.  Not gritty or buzzy.  Have internal trimmers for TMB.  HRM series are 90s.  The HRM is much gainier and tighter on the OD
Overtone Special
•   Thicker and warmer than S & M
•   Less O.D.
•   Smoother and deeper sounding.
•   OTS will sound a little warmer on the clean side compared to S&M.
Overtone Special S & M
•   Much brighter OD and more aggressive.
•   A rock machine, but not as good at cleans.
Overtone Special 183
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Overtone Special FM (#102)
•   Skyliner clean tone stack with a Non-HRM OD.
•   More “Chime y” clean tones.
•   More focused OD with a almost horn sound.
•   Very bright amp.
•   Needs a Dumbleator

Overtone HRM
•   Stands for Hot Rubber Monkey
•   Has a second tone stack just for the OD channel.
•   Marshally
•   Very refined
•   More compression
•   Smooth singing OD
•   6L6’s
•   Jazzz fusion but can get dirty
Overtone HRM Bluesmaster
•   Early raw Fender / Marshal tone on steroids.  Like a Bassman
•   Great Cleans (sing and sustain)
•   Less smooth OD and much less compresed than above.
•   OD is a bit raw and edgy.  Meaty and fat.  Lot’s of gain can be had.
•   Cleans are very girthy and has more bass.
•   Less clean headroom than all other OTS amps.
•   Needs Dumbleator.
•   Great blues / rock / jazz
•   More cord friendly and string definition.
•   Bluesmaster version has a smoother overdrive, but cannot be as
aggressive as the regular HRM.
•   excellent cleans, but the OD isnt gainy but more articulate.
Overtone HRM MK II
•   A bit more hair on both channels than the FM 50.
•   OD is crunchier and more compressed than FM.
•   EL34’s
Non HRM Classic EQ
•   excellent cleans, but the OD isnt gainy but more articulate.Great sustain
•   Singing OD
•   Very touch sensitive and not much compression.
Non-HRM Skyliner EQ (Regular Overtone)
•   Little less Fendery.
•   EQ is a little more Dumbley
•   Better cleans than above.Great sustain.
•   Better string to string definition.
•   The Presence is focused around the high freq. only.
-HRM Skyliner Non EQ
•   Same as above, but gain stage is not classic Fender.
•   More headroom, definition and punch.
•   More alive cleans and smoother OD.
•   Small bit of compression.
•   Touch sensitiveOn HRM, clean and OD channels have separate master volumes
•   On Non-HRM, they share an master volume.
•   When you add a Dumbleator, the return line is the master volume.
Non-HRM’s come to harmonic feedback easily.  Mid-heavy.   Rich w / sustain.  Emphasis on mid harmonics.  More singing sustain.  OTS will sound a little warmer on the clean side compared to S&M.
HRM’s – more dynamic and percussive, very touch sensitive.  Less OD.  Not gritty or buzzy.  Have internal trimmers for TMB.  HRM series are 90s.  The HRM is much gainier and tighter on the OD

Do most of you use a Zoom or a Tascam device for recording your clips and putting them on here?

i'm looking to get one of these for a FM 50 that goes into a 1 x 12" epi cab that is now 16 ohm.  I see that these speakers are now 15 ohm. 

Can I just switch the 16 that is in there now for the 15 ohm G12 - 65. or is there some other mod I need to do?

Thanks,