hey thanks for doing tha mike!
its nuts how well it sounds..at the moment one amp does me, but heck if i was giging i reckon i would get one just for ease(once i have a guitar and my huge pedal board a small amp would be very welcome!)
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As far as the Rat goes, yeah I get that too, after about 1-2 o'clock on the Dist knob all just sounds the same, and mine is from '86. Though I like the Rat only at about 10-11 o'clock, anything more than that is too much. I built a second heavily-modified Rat with more volume to push it harder if need be. Reason for this, is that after a certain point the opamp in there gets pushed as far as it will go, and just increasing the gain any more can't push it any harder, so it sounds the same. Many of the older ones used 150k pots for the Dist, whereas 100k is really all that you're going to get out of it with the low resistance in to ground in that feedback loop.
As far as the Rat goes, yeah I get that too, after about 1-2 o'clock on the Dist knob all just sounds the same, and mine is from '86. Though I like the Rat only at about 10-11 o'clock, anything more than that is too much. I built a second heavily-modified Rat with more volume to push it harder if need be. Reason for this, is that after a certain point the opamp in there gets pushed as far as it will go, and just increasing the gain any more can't push it any harder, so it sounds the same. Many of the older ones used 150k pots for the Dist, whereas 100k is really all that you're going to get out of it with the low resistance in to ground in that feedback loop.
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No probs, for a little cheap thing it really does sound greatHurb wrote:hey thanks for doing tha mike!
its nuts how well it sounds..at the moment one amp does me, but heck if i was giging i reckon i would get one just for ease(once i have a guitar and my huge pedal board a small amp would be very welcome!)
I've been playing with the Crate for the past hour or so and it's loads of fun! Sounds pretty damn good for what it is. Put it through the S804 Gold Back speaker that's in my Valvestate combo - looking forward to taking it to practice Saturday to try it a proper volumes.Mike wrote:Cheers man, you'll love it. Have fun!
Also put it through headphones and that will be a godsend - no messing about with amps/speakers again for a quick practice at home.
mike you notice how the volume, rises at a constant rate and then at about 2 o clock or so the volume double or triples even? Its just the type of viable resistors (potientiometers) used. Maybe using the gian to adjust is the key. Other then that what an amp for the money, I bet you use it for practice, what a load off toten around heads and combos.
Plus I never got to throw a pedal (dist, overdrive) on it, thanks alot.
I know my girlfriend would love one, as would I.
99 bucks gosh.
Plus I never got to throw a pedal (dist, overdrive) on it, thanks alot.
I know my girlfriend would love one, as would I.
99 bucks gosh.
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The volume on my power block increases in a fairly normal way - are you saying they used a linear potentiometer instead of a logarithmic (audio) pot? That doesn't sound right, since a linear pot has a large volume increase between the first few turns and then a less discernable difference thereafter.
Fender put a linear pot on the Master Volume of the Hot Rod series of amps to make them appear very loud in guitar shops - because at 2 the amp is effectively full bore. It's cynical and stupid and it makes the control very twitchy.
As with any amp that contains a Gain and Volume control it is a balance of raising the two to attain the sound and volume you're after. You need a little gain to get max Clean output.
I still use my combo for practise but for small gigs and for headphone practice at home it's a winner.
Fender put a linear pot on the Master Volume of the Hot Rod series of amps to make them appear very loud in guitar shops - because at 2 the amp is effectively full bore. It's cynical and stupid and it makes the control very twitchy.
As with any amp that contains a Gain and Volume control it is a balance of raising the two to attain the sound and volume you're after. You need a little gain to get max Clean output.
I still use my combo for practise but for small gigs and for headphone practice at home it's a winner.
well, you're right an audio pot is used. There would be no need to do what they do to Fender tube amps. I was just saying some viable resistors tend to increase their value dramaticly at the end of rotation (turning it up). I guess that has to do with an audio pot as aposed to a linear.
umm like, not the type of component used (audio v.s. linear) but just how the value is rolled out. does that make sence?
Its kinda why I changed to CTS from cheap jap pots in a guitar they tend to turn the volume up at a constant rate instead of just blowing up all of a sudden.
umm like, not the type of component used (audio v.s. linear) but just how the value is rolled out. does that make sence?
Its kinda why I changed to CTS from cheap jap pots in a guitar they tend to turn the volume up at a constant rate instead of just blowing up all of a sudden.
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