Honest Thoughts Please on New 4 & 5 Stage High Gain Hopkins Circuit.

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Sounds good... but you have way too much effects going on. I’d like to hear it completely dry to hear the tone. When you hit the 5th stage I honestly had to stop my critique because of the effects. Obviously you have the effects going on because with them it sounds good. If you have to have effects, maybe just a TINY bit of reverb to fill it out or make it easier to play.
 
psychodave said:
Sounds good... but you have way too much effects going on. I’d like to hear it completely dry to hear the tone. When you hit the 5th stage I honestly had to stop my critique because of the effects. Obviously you have the effects going on because with them it sounds good. If you have to have effects, maybe just a TINY bit of reverb to fill it out or make it easier to play.
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You would think I would learn by now. I honestly don’t hear it watered down by reverb & delay but it appears I need to incorporate bypassed loop in demo’s from now on.

Thank you Dave.
 
fek said:
Sounds good but I agree, hard to get a true representation with the extra sauce.

I love my #10 Pandora. What are the differences?
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More studies of Ken Fischer, Reinhold Bogner, some of the non clipping ideas from Arredondo & my own innovations.

A guy should be able to get into a wheelhouse and integrate parts of different circuits while coupling in various ways.

That is to say once you learn most of the circuits out there it all starts to fall into place easily. It is a matter of where you use what and how.


For example Cameron has at least two non cathode circuits, Splawn has a few, Roccaforte, Fischer on and on.

Then there are Friedman’s multiple takes on his flagship, Jose influenced way more than just clippers. Lee Jackson, Mike Soldano.

I treat it like playing guitar. I learn as much as I can then play/build. Much like Mark and I used to talk about but Shea Monomyth & I do now, we all have our own ears that lead us to our tones.
And that is what makes guys unique just like axe slingers.

I have far to go before I am finished. I am digging the dark tone of this 5 stage circuits so far.

this was the first wet demo.
Thanks guys.

David
 
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Are you running a preamp out with pulled power tubes? It looks like the chassis doesn’t have any power tubes installed, so weird.

Sounds good but agree with others - turn the effects mix way down as the YouTube compression makes it seem like it’s higher on recording than it is in the room.
 
I like it. Agree that I'd like to hear it dry in this scenario. Maybe slow leads to see how it sustains and flows into feedback as well. I personally prefer all the gain from the amp as opposed to mix/match with pre-amp and OD pedals, so this is very interesting. Keep us posted David.
 
glpg80 said:
Are you running a preamp out with pulled power tubes? It looks like the chassis doesn’t have any power tubes installed, so weird.

Sounds good but agree with others - turn the effects mix way down as the YouTube compression makes it seem like it’s higher on recording than it is in the room.
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It is a 100 watt. I pull the two center EL34’s and run on 8 OHMS into a 16 OHM cab.
 
jabps said:
I like it. Agree that I'd like to hear it dry in this scenario. Maybe slow leads to see how it sustains and flows into feedback as well. I personally prefer all the gain from the amp as opposed to mix/match with pre-amp and OD pedals, so this is very interesting. Keep us posted David.
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Thank you. I will make a dry demo with some Gary Moore lead lines. Cool?

David
 
gibson5413 said:
Sounds great!!!! I actually love all of the extra sauce on the clips but understand the other side. I'd love to try one day!
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I agree with you and personally am able to hear through what I consider professional delay/reverb levels all, but whatever the individual request is necessary. It covers more of the individuals interest and is more comprehensive.

I do prefer a phone recording over close making. I’ve recorded mixed produced and mastered enough CDs to know that I can put a SM57 on a B52 AT100 and make it sound great. There are a couple videos on YouTube doing a shoot out between seven heads and they all sound nearly identical due to production.

But to reiterate I understand everyone’s interest and I am more than happy to meet those requests. I have demos on master volume taper, gain taper etc...

David
 
Sounds great David! Like others have said, a dry and wet clip will give everyone what they want.
 
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