egnater tweaker

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My Tourmaster was in the shop recently. A blown tube that fried one or two other things- no big deal.

While I was waiting for it, I tried a few other things- Line 6, Fender, Blackstar, etc...

After a year and a half with the Egnater, those others still couldn't hold a candle to the Tourmaster!

:D :thumbsup: :rock:
 
bruce egnater":1o9hf1kx said:
That is one in the group of pedals I will check. My point was that I need a little more time than a couple of days to solve problems. Sometimes I feel that Egnater gets beat up quicker than other companies when something goes wrong. I/we are far from perfect and I do take the digs and attacks quite personal. Egnater is not a big corporation that doesn't care about you. Egnater is me and a few other people and we all work way too hard to not take things to heart. I'm not whining but I do feel that comments are often made that people don't realize can be hurtful to others. I understand the nature of these forums is to be able to state opinions in an essentially anonymous fashion and I need to be tougher and just suck it up. What I see as a little unfair is when Egnater has an issue, we suck, we don't respond quick enough, we make junk....etc..etc.. If Marshall or Fender has a problem with something, it hardly gets mentioned. How many people own Fender HotRod Devilles or HotRod Deluxes, and how many of those had the jacks break off the boards?? Probably 80%. Does everyone go on the forums and bad mouth Fender for making crap and not calling them back within a day or two....I don't think so. Sorry for the rant but you must try to put yourself in my position. This is my life and I put 110% into it everyday, 7 days a week. When people come along who really have no idea what it's like to run a small business, and make comments about things they know nothing about, I just get a little frustrated. I do read all these things and we discuss the issues you bring up everyday. We are working on the reverb issues, though at this moment it is still a little random in the field. The Tweaker loop issue is new and now we jump all over that. I assume you have seen how aggressively we responded to problems in the past even though the solutions do not always appear overnight.

Bruce, funny you mention the Fender thing. I had a HRDlx and sold it to help buy your Rebel 20 full stack. The HRDlx was a total piece of junk that spent as much time in the shop as I did playing it. It was the most unreliable amp I've ever owned. I'm pretty vocal about it too on the Fender site, and have helped sell of few Rebels too. LOL Just to let you know, I love the Rebel 20. I've been playing guitar for over 40 years and the Rebel 20 IMO is one of the best amps I've ever owned and light years ahead in build quality an tone of anything Fender is putting out in their newer line up. Keep up the great work, and I'll go through the growing pains of your company. Your amps are always put a new and fresh twist my playing.
People forget there is no longer a Mr. Fender.
Thanks Again,
Bob
 
No disrespect intended Bruce. I have had great luck and tone with your products. I was just perplexed as I'm sure you are that the Carbon Copy worked great in my Rebel 30 and Renegade but not in the Tweaker.

I couldnt get an answer from John Ewing even though he did try so I had to send mine back. It may seem trivial but this was the ONLY reason the amp went back. Once you get it resolved(and you will) let us know and I will certainly buy another one.

We appreciate the fact that you are accessible and care to even take the time to respond and follow the 'community" Thank you :rock:
 
No offense taken. I am always open to questions and constructive criticism. That is how we get better at what we do. Still not done with the Tweaker loop and Renegade reverb testing. Egnater is a sponsor of the Eric Clapton Crossroad Festival this weekend and I need to be in Chicago for that. Probably won't complete the Tweaker checking until next Wednesday. Thanks for you patience.
 
First time poster here, so excuse the noobness.

I stumbled onto this forum today while scouring the internet for Tweaker info and it caught my eye.

I bought a Tweaker a week and a half ago (absolutely love it, had a bunch of small tube amps, but this one takes the cake, it sounds like glory).

Anyway, I run a modest sized pedalboard through the Tweaker with a tuner, wah, an OD, and some modulation pedals into the front of the amp. In the effects loop i go Send > EH Holy Grail Reverb > MXR CC > Rocktron Hush > Return. The amp sounds great regardless of whether anything is in the effects loop or not, and with those pedals plugged into the loop they sound just as great as they ever did. The MXR CC has all the character that made me fall in love with it in the first place, and the HG sounds like it was meant to be in this amp.

The whole pedalboard is powered by one Visual Sound Onespot, except for the reverb pedal which has its own power supply. The only things I've changed in the amp are are the v1, v2, v3 tubes. (Nothing wrong with Sovtek, they're tough as nails, but I have a few TungSol 12AX7s I prefer more).

I know the MXR CC has been out for about 2 years now. I bought mine in April of this year, so I'm just wondering if maybe MXR has made a revision to that pedal at some point over time that makes it work better with tube driven effects loops.

Just my 2 cents worth, hope maybe it helps someone.
 
SGDude":k9uik8ke said:
Anyway, I run a modest sized pedalboard through the Tweaker with a tuner, wah, an OD, and some modulation pedals into the front of the amp. In the effects loop i go Send > EH Holy Grail Reverb > MXR CC > Rocktron Hush > Return. The amp sounds great regardless of whether anything is in the effects loop or not, and with those pedals plugged into the loop they sound just as great as they ever did. The MXR CC has all the character that made me fall in love with it in the first place, and the HG sounds like it was meant to be in this amp.

The whole pedalboard is powered by one Visual Sound Onespot, except for the reverb pedal which has its own power supply.
Pedals in fx-loop and in front of the amp are powered from single 1-Spot and You do not have any problem with ground loops? Hard to believe I have to say.
 
Sikor":3kkxyspo said:
Pedals in fx-loop and in front of the amp are powered from single 1-Spot and You do not have any problem with ground loops? Hard to believe I have to say.


Nope, no ground loop problems, however the the one spot is plugged into a power conditioner that I acquired somewhere along the way.
 
Bruce, any news on the Tweaker effect loop complaints?
I've been holding off on buying one until there is something something definitive.
 
Any resolutions to this?


I absolutely adore my Tweaker AND my Carbon Copy. It works great in front of the amp, but for low volume, high gain practicing, I want to run it in the effects loop. Unfortunately delays have just sounded TERRIBLE through the loop so far.


Ran the CC through the loop and ALL of the high end vanished. Sounded like the amp was run through a lowpass filter.

Ran my friend's DD-3 through the loop and all of the repeats were distorted.


In both cases, the delay pedal was the only pedal in the loop. Tried with battery, with power supply, with different cables, etc... nothing helped.

It's not a deal breaker for me, because I love the amp, but man it would be nice to have it work.
 
someone on the gear page said they used a buffer along with it and it helped greatly. I have not tried that yet. I'm guessing that just means another pedal with a buffer of some sort? Like a typical boss pedal?? Or maybe like they are talking about in this thread?? viewtopic.php?f=3&t=73472 Worth a shot.
 
When you say low volume how low are you going? The reason I ask is I have a Rebel 30 combo and I have used pedals in the loop and in front of the amp. At low volumes it sounds better in front on the amp and it seems to me it sounds a little distorted in the loop...more noticeable on the clean channel. When I push the volume up past about a quarter or so (9 o clock) it starts to sound pretty good.

Do you get bad results at higher volumes? Set your volume at 9 o'clock or higher and test it out...
 
I'll try it with a Boss type buffered pedal and see what that does.




Jeepguy - we were running the DD-3 in the loop at high volume. I would like the loop to work for my low volume practicing, but we certainly tried it at high volume as well. Either way, I run my Carbon Copy in front of the amp at band volumes, so at that volume the loop is dead to me anyway.
 
I am selling my HT5 and buying a Tweaker next week. I hope that everything works well with the 4CM and my RP1000. I will report my findings later next week.
 
I'd like to know the outcome of this as well.

I wanna get a Tweaker and run a Providence 80s Delay in the loop for home playing and rehearsal. But it's all about easy setup here, if I'd have to use the line converter to get the signal to match the pedal, it'd be a bit shitty.
 
What was the outcome to this problem?
I just got the RP1000, now I need to know if I need to take it back.
G
 
Flow Master":gc26iisn said:
What was the outcome to this problem?
I just got the RP1000, now I need to know if I need to take it back.
G

My RP1000 works great with my Tweaker. No issues.
 
Mine (RP1000) does as well. The only issue I had was with my Carbon Copy. Everything else seems to work fine.
 
can any one advise on how the Tweaker is likley to react to the EH Holy Stain?, i take delivery of my Tweaker today and i cant wait, and after reading here i dont want to go rushing out and get the pedal if its not going to work
 
hobbit":3segrqzz said:
can any one advise on how the Tweaker is likley to react to the EH Holy Stain?, i take delivery of my Tweaker today and i cant wait, and after reading here i dont want to go rushing out and get the pedal if its not going to work

FWIW I've been running an EHX Cathedral in the loop of my tweaker since July I think. No probs really; I did notice a compressed reduction in sound level when using the Cathedral with a really hot preamp signal, but after swapping out all three preamp tubes for EHX long plate 12ax7s, I have had ZERO probs. I'm no expert on these things, but that's what I believe I observed :)

Awesome little loudbox: just enjoy it!
 
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