Thanks Rob, that's very flattering, I love your playing. Yeah, just a video camera. And I DID have to work hard, that's why I was complaining! It was a one take wonder, I don't have the patience to polish everything up, I just let er rip and live with it.rgalpin wrote:I like this. Listening and knowing it's just a camera/phone mic in the room right? So, knowing that, you have to fill in the blanks between this and a close mic'd produced sound - but what i hear here is I can hear YOUR playing because that setup is making you work - this is the kind of tone i love - and this is the kind of tone i hear in a lot of live clips of ed like the Oakland 81 stuff - you can really hear him playing and all that unique technique that is so attractive - where VH I was ed in a controlled meltdown - this kind of tone you have here is more dependent on technique - and you pull it off really well and it's fun to listen to you play those leads in this setup cause i can really hear how you play them - very cool.Krinkle wrote:I still think the amp is biased too cold, even at 50mA at 90VAC. This is set to 60VAC with the MXR. Between the cold bias and the "fat" cap I installed the other day I would say too much bass and not enough gain. It only took about 3 hours to upload this to Youtube. It was one take, then I thought maybe I should take my time and do another one, until the upload took forever.
Let's see if this works, Youtube has been giving me fits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0LEHMl9qiA
my experience so far with this is that you start with high and tight plexi tone - and for me that does not include a 330 on v2a - nor does it include an 820 on v1b or v2a - got to go higher on those resistor values to chop off the low junk - nor does it include big values on the NFB resistor -> go low and keep everything tight like a balloon - and listen for that envelope like what you hear in the main intro riff of BOTTOM'S UP (not the quiet part - i'm talking about the biting A and C - D riff after the drums come in) - now with that snappy, high, sassy envelope, tight plexi, you take the deep dive to 60V-ish land - when and if you lose the gain you want, start pushing it with a vintage blue mxr eq - get some of those sliders into the +9db area that you couldn't use before because of the hiss at 120V.
that's my experience with it anyway - every amp is different. i just got some fresh 6CA7s that I want to try with this - as well as experimenting with the slave setup a la mr. twisty.
I agree with everything you said. I'm on the way down to the basement to tweak it again. I'll desolder and lift one end of the fat cap and use my alligator wires to jump it in an out so I can hear the difference. I'll jumper a 100k resistor across the the 100k NFB resistor to see if I like 47k better, I get the feeling that I will. I was liking the change from 2.7k to 820r, now you have me thinking about that too!
