I always kept mine around 31-32, but recently lowered to 27-28. The change is subtle but hearable, the tone became a bit less compressed, thus a bit more open. Seems like tubes have more "breathe" with that setting. Same impression while lower a bias a bit in my other amps (Engl Invader...
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I did some short clips to illustrate how the mod changes the sound.
C40 on - https://www.soundclick.com/player/single ... 62321&q=hi
C40 off - https://www.soundclick.com/player/single ... 62326&q=hi
C40 on-off - https://www.soundclick.com/player/single ... 62328&q=hi
As these are mp3...
I have just return from the Marvel Amps HQ with my modded XTC. Totally new amp! The essential change was removing all polypropylene coupling and tone caps for dirty channels and replacing them with TAD/Mojo Dijon polyester film-to-foil caps. Man, WHAT A CHANGE!! The amp is now hairy, aggressive...
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Imagine two 1960A cabs from the same year (1996), so same speakers, same internal cables, same wood, aprox. same playing time, everything is totally the same. But both sound totally different.
One is very bright and in-front sounding, and the other is dark and dull, very muffled and muddy...
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Some time ago I started to feel Structure circuit a bit too muddy. I liked what it made with tone generally but I felt that the cap let too much bass go through. I was told by Charlie that the cap in the Structure circuit is 1.5uF tantalum. Inspired by the Splawn QuickRod I tried several...
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Yesterday we worked with Marvel on Structure Mod (detail soon) and found out that Sovtek LPS in V1 (which I like in that position) rings and dings as hell when we knocked the tube itself, but also the chassis or front panel. We thought that the tube went microphonic and replaced it with...
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I got a request to those of You who has 20th Anniversary XTC amp produced in 2010 or - better - in 2011. I'd like to get a close gut shots of that amp, I am curious of circuit changes. If someone would make them for me I'd be very thankful. Please let me know.
Regards, Andy :)
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Some time ago in this topic: http://bognerampforum.informe.com/mods- ... hlight=r19 Brent wrote about certain mod for XTC's Blue and Red Channel: "This will give it more gain in the mids on all lead channels including the plexi channel. In plexi mode its going to be classic marshall crunch...
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I think about replacing OT in my amp and think about two Mercury Magnetics output transformers: MMO-PX-100 and MMO-100C. Both are designed for hi-gain applications, but PX-100 is described as right for highest gain amps.
The goal is to remove the "blanket" effect (the amp sounds like the...
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Have anybody tried new EVH Wolfgang pickups? I assume they are produced by Fender, but how their tone would be compared to pickups from Peavey Wolfgang Guitars or Frankenstein pickups?
Regards, Andy :)