Recent content by Dave L

Yeah, the Gotoh should be fine in there. The FR Special is better than most of the licensed stuff from the 90s, that kind of pot-metal junk you just don´t see anymore. There were good and even great licensed Floyds too, of course, but anything cheaper than a Takeuchi model was not to be trusted.

The Blackmore is a nice amp, I can say that much, and if the Artist was tweaked from there for Doug Aldrich it probably is nice too. Lots of the other Engl stuff sounds a bit off for me, but then again I´m more of an 80s rock guy and not in it for the chugs.

Yeah, I was also thinking you just might be used to something very different-sounding and/or not dig the T75s at all. If I bought a H30-loaded cab I probably would return it as defective too 😄

The 90s processors are getting to be a handful, that´s for sure. I have to keep an old laptop running Vista around to communicate with my Eventide GTR4000 😄

I have a nice clone of those old 14-pin OD1s, it is very particular indeed. Not that similar to the SD1, which was a surprise, and like you say it´s one big squawk of mids and nothing else. Really brash in that way, which can be cool but also awfully thin in some rigs. When I´m not looking for...

I´m only a fan of slight boosting, for me it never works out slamming the input. Lots of folks dig it and sound good that way, but it´s not for me. But getting a boost dialed in juuust right into a Super Lead-ish amp, pure heaven.

Been thinking about exploring some fuzz stuff lately, thanks for the added GAS :thumbsup:

Interesting, I suppose some of them ended up with those resistors and EL34s even if mostly was a 6550 thing. I guess any combination might have happened on any given day at the Marshall plant, as always :giggle:

It does sound good as is, and like I mentioned I will not be doing work on it myself. Just trying to orientate myself on the state of it before the tech takes a look, never know what you´ll find in a fifty-year old amp. But the bias is one thing we will be talking about, for sure.

This was sold in Sweden originally, so it´s from those scandinavian export lines that also differed a bit sometimes. I don´t know if we ever got the 6550s, though.

I checked the bias with my old Eurotubes probe now, and they were in the 26,5-27 range. Not entirely out of spec for the EL34s and some dudes do like them a bit below 30, so going off of that I can´t tell if it is set up for biasing 6550s or not. It´s going to the shop to swap a broken pilot...

Thanks Griff!

Hi guys, I´m looking through a ´75 Super Lead I got a while back, I´m not really tech savvy but just reading off some color codes and matching it to schematics. Trying to learn something, I suppose. It seems more or less stock and/or what you might expect to find, but what are these two...

Will I ever play out with tube amps again, probably not. Will I ever play modelers when I just want to feel good and pretend to be a rock star at home, probably not. Horses for courses, as they say.

Yeah, the thing is, that Wolfgang set-up with a non-recessed Floyd that actually rests on the body is pretty rare, and I guess it came about for the D-tuna. Most non-recessed Floyds float above the body to some degree, and the recess originally just eliminated the need for a neck angle like...