A friend owns a 5153 EL34 50W, and so far the only issue I know of is that some tubes died and cooked the board pretty good around the screen resistors. They were JJ EL34's, which per a recent Malcontents episode don't like to be cranked. My friend was regularly cranking it, so presumably that...
Is there a way for me to turn off the similar threads feature for my account? I can always have my browser nix it, but figured I'd see if there's an official way first.
Yup, went in expecting that level of horribleness, but ended up thinking I'd much rather listen to this than that. Still not great, but somehow they managed to just be lame without most of the usual irksome annoying vibes I usually get from their newer stuff and Cherone's antics.
Yes. You set the PS' cab output to match the impedance of whatever setup you have (in this case, 16 || 16 ⇒ 8 ohms), and whatever you set your amp to you match with the PS' amp input. It's recommended that you set your amp to match the actual impedance of your speaker setup so that when...
All too often "freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences" seems to be used as an excuse to make there be consequences, i.e. retaliation for speech, or to justify those who do. I'm not stating that that is happening in this thread, or even in the general kerfuffle going on now, I've been a...
Wet Wet Drowned, more like.
Also a silent recording load box, an impedance matcher, and a power amp distortion effects pedal (in self-attenuation mode).
@Beyond Black if you're playing with it live, the PS-100 has a neat dual-channel feature so you can bump volume and tweak the tone for solo breaks 'n stuff. You may be able to mimic that with a clean boost/EQ in the loop though.
I just got a PS-100, and I haven't had the issues @Racerxrated mentions. I'm using it for knocking a '82 4104 down to apartment-sized volumes, and I haven't been able to notice any difference either once I volume-matched and then tweaked the reactive load switches. Switching to bypass and back...
Didn't one of the older models also have a switchable(?) low-pass on the line-out?
Edit: PS-1 had a hardwired low-pass, PS-2 was switchable, and I think 2A just got rid of it all together...
Quick PSA: if you're running a Scarlett 18i20 on Linux and recently started having issues with it, like UCM error messages popping up in places or garbled input, it could be this bug: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf/issues/559 Like the posters in that thread mentioned, downgrading...