The Originals

[bionicmark]

We might change the jewel on the 2nd run to blue, red or purple

blue please...thank you!

 

[glip22]

The OG ccv without the drive switch are my personal favorites of the amps....OG ccv with drive switch seems to lose that little extra something in the Feel of the old ccv without it . New production ccv is totally a different thing all together and I've owned all 3....just my humble little "opinion" and does'nt mean a damn thing as to whether one is better than the other

I'm surprised this makes a difference. The drive switch is just a mod thats been around long that simply switches between three different values of cathode bypass caps. Center position should be the same cathode bypass cap as a CCV without this option. Left or right changes two different values of cap which then alters the voicing of the first or second gain stage( I believe pin 8 cathode second stage. The switch should not be a major difference between amps that have or do not have it. I would say its something else like an incosistency in the actual amp making one a little more special than the other. The masters are Jose with the clipping diodes. Without the different cathode caps and diode clipping the CCV does not have allot of gain. The gain it does have works great with these options. If V1 is the channel 2 input tube and V2 the cathode follower, I would assume the CCV has only two gain stages and the cathode follower. Lower gain stages is what gives the amp its cleaner tighter feel. Its almost like playing a clean amp with allot of perceived gain. It also adds to the amps dynamics. You would think an amp that seems to have allot of gain would not be as dynamic as the CCV is. Cool amp. I like it.

 

[steve_k]

The original is packed away and heading out for gigging tomorrow. Got it set up really nice and the LASD interface really took the loop back to zero. Wah and gate out front, Timefactor in the loop. That's it. Two button switch for channel select and solo. It's all good. And, I haven't even checked to see what tubes are in it, how it is biased or anything. Totally unlike me....

Steve

 

[freeballinusa]

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[steve_k]

The original is packed away and heading out for gigging tomorrow. Got it set up really nice and the LASD interface really took the loop back to zero. Wah and gate out front, Timefactor in the loop. That's it. Two button switch for channel select and solo. It's all good. And, I haven't even checked to see what tubes are in it, how it is biased or anything. Totally unlike me....

Steve

Ah.........the Cameron sounded awesome and punched through everything in the mix. Solo's were clear and not lost in the stage or FOH and was just a super easy amp to manipulate live between the two channels and the solo channel and with just a delay and a wah it was smoking.

......up until the the point that a head-banging fan accidentally hit an electrical adapter plug that all my rig was plugged into and it was lights out in the middle of a song for a minute! All the stage power supplies were surface mount at the front of the stage. Anyway, powered back up and kept on trucking.

 

[glip22]

The original is packed away and heading out for gigging tomorrow. Got it set up really nice and the LASD interface really took the loop back to zero. Wah and gate out front, Timefactor in the loop. That's it. Two button switch for channel select and solo. It's all good. And, I haven't even checked to see what tubes are in it, how it is biased or anything. Totally unlike me....

Steve

Ah.........the Cameron sounded awesome and punched through everything in the mix. Solo's were clear and not lost in the stage or FOH and was just a super easy amp to manipulate live between the two channels and the solo channel and with just a delay and a wah it was smoking.

......up until the the point that a head-banging fan accidentally hit an electrical adapter plug that all my rig was plugged into and it was lights out in the middle of a song for a minute! All the stage power supplies were surface mount at the front of the stage. Anyway, powered back up and kept on trucking.

Now if you guys win.....

 

[glassjaw7]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

 

[steve_k]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

 

[glip22]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

 

[steve_k]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

can't say in public on the F/O !!!

Nah, we got 3rd behind a local hotel band with 2 girls singing in very short school girl skirts with a backing band doing cheesy covers. Hard to compete with that. The other band are locals and very death metal. Great sound, but I can't jive with vocals that sound like someone is throwing up constantly. It was really a BOTB for bands in Bahrain. We were the odd one's in the lot, living in Saudi. Got some offers to go play in Dubai though, and a couple other places in Bahrain. It was all in good fun. We closed with Master of Puppets and had it been a crowd response vs. a 5 panel judging, I think it would have been a different outcome. The judges were local media/magazine/radio types and they were likely bound to pick a local band. The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Steve

 

[glip22]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

can't say in public on the F/O !!!

Nah, we got 3rd behind a local hotel band with 2 girls singing in very short school girl skirts with a backing band doing cheesy covers. Hard to compete with that. The other band are locals and very death metal. Great sound, but I can't jive with vocals that sound like someone is throwing up constantly. It was really a BOTB for bands in Bahrain. We were the odd one's in the lot, living in Saudi. Got some offers to go play in Dubai though, and a couple other places in Bahrain. It was all in good fun. We closed with Master of Puppets and had it been a crowd response vs. a 5 panel judging, I think it would have been a different outcome. The judges were local media/magazine/radio types and they were likely bound to pick a local band. The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Steve

Titties and ass is hard to compete with. Good to know the CCV can cut. Man I set mine up with some tone that I know would kill in a band setting. Piercing laser cut. Good shit.

 

[steve_k]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

can't say in public on the F/O !!!

Nah, we got 3rd behind a local hotel band with 2 girls singing in very short school girl skirts with a backing band doing cheesy covers. Hard to compete with that. The other band are locals and very death metal. Great sound, but I can't jive with vocals that sound like someone is throwing up constantly. It was really a BOTB for bands in Bahrain. We were the odd one's in the lot, living in Saudi. Got some offers to go play in Dubai though, and a couple other places in Bahrain. It was all in good fun. We closed with Master of Puppets and had it been a crowd response vs. a 5 panel judging, I think it would have been a different outcome. The judges were local media/magazine/radio types and they were likely bound to pick a local band. The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Steve

Titties and ass is hard to compete with. Good to know the CCV can cut. Man I set mine up with some tone that I know would kill in a band setting. Piercing laser cut. Good shit.

Yeah, they hired a really good sound guy that set us up with a good stage mix and FOH mix. With the CCV, things like OD pedals, boosts, etc. are not needed. Which is part of what makes it an easy amp to handle on stage with very little tap dancing. With easy switching access to both channels and solo boost, it really is a cool amp for the stage and it fills the room and cuts at the same time. It is probably the most "pick attack" controlled amp I have ever played where it generates it's own cutting tone with the pick as opposed to boosting.

Steve

 

[freeballinusa]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Not Really, knobs are not measurements especially when the era or components/taper might be different they only way is subjective-- someone with good ears getting them both to be as good as they can be and compare that -- the same position thing is a farce

 

[rlord1974]

The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

 

[glip22]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

can't say in public on the F/O !!!

Nah, we got 3rd behind a local hotel band with 2 girls singing in very short school girl skirts with a backing band doing cheesy covers. Hard to compete with that. The other band are locals and very death metal. Great sound, but I can't jive with vocals that sound like someone is throwing up constantly. It was really a BOTB for bands in Bahrain. We were the odd one's in the lot, living in Saudi. Got some offers to go play in Dubai though, and a couple other places in Bahrain. It was all in good fun. We closed with Master of Puppets and had it been a crowd response vs. a 5 panel judging, I think it would have been a different outcome. The judges were local media/magazine/radio types and they were likely bound to pick a local band. The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Steve

Titties and ass is hard to compete with. Good to know the CCV can cut. Man I set mine up with some tone that I know would kill in a band setting. Piercing laser cut. Good shit.

Yeah, they hired a really good sound guy that set us up with a good stage mix and FOH mix. With the CCV, things like OD pedals, boosts, etc. are not needed. Which is part of what makes it an easy amp to handle on stage with very little tap dancing. With easy switching access to both channels and solo boost, it really is a cool amp for the stage and it fills the room and cuts at the same time. It is probably the most "pick attack" controlled amp I have ever played where it generates it's own cutting tone with the pick as opposed to boosting.

Steve

Does this make sense to you? I posted it above but no comments. I am curious if anyone else thought the same about the feel,gain,and dynamics. This is my favoorite aspect of this amp unless I am off base on it.

The drive switch is just a mod thats been around long that simply switches between three different values of cathode bypass caps. Center position should be the same cathode bypass cap as a CCV without this option. Left or right changes two different values of cap which then alters the voicing of the first or second gain stage( I believe pin 8 cathode second stage. The switch should not be a major difference between amps that have or do not have it. I would say its something else like an incosistency in the actual amp making one a little more special than the other. The masters are Jose with the clipping diodes. Without the different cathode caps and diode clipping the CCV does not have allot of gain. The gain it does have works great with these options. If V1 is the channel 2 input tube and V2 the cathode follower, I would assume the CCV has only two gain stages and the cathode follower. Lower gain stages is what gives the amp its cleaner tighter feel. Its almost like playing a clean amp with allot of perceived gain. It also adds to the amps dynamics. You would think an amp that seems to have allot of gain would not be as dynamic as the CCV is. Cool amp. I like it.

 

[steve_k]

The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Honestly.....





Except for the one already in the pipeline. Well, that one and the other one and that other one.

 

[steve_k]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

can't say in public on the F/O !!!

Nah, we got 3rd behind a local hotel band with 2 girls singing in very short school girl skirts with a backing band doing cheesy covers. Hard to compete with that. The other band are locals and very death metal. Great sound, but I can't jive with vocals that sound like someone is throwing up constantly. It was really a BOTB for bands in Bahrain. We were the odd one's in the lot, living in Saudi. Got some offers to go play in Dubai though, and a couple other places in Bahrain. It was all in good fun. We closed with Master of Puppets and had it been a crowd response vs. a 5 panel judging, I think it would have been a different outcome. The judges were local media/magazine/radio types and they were likely bound to pick a local band. The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Steve

Titties and ass is hard to compete with. Good to know the CCV can cut. Man I set mine up with some tone that I know would kill in a band setting. Piercing laser cut. Good shit.

Yeah, they hired a really good sound guy that set us up with a good stage mix and FOH mix. With the CCV, things like OD pedals, boosts, etc. are not needed. Which is part of what makes it an easy amp to handle on stage with very little tap dancing. With easy switching access to both channels and solo boost, it really is a cool amp for the stage and it fills the room and cuts at the same time. It is probably the most "pick attack" controlled amp I have ever played where it generates it's own cutting tone with the pick as opposed to boosting.

Steve

Does this make sense to you? I posted it above but no comments. I am curious if anyone else thought the same about the feel,gain,and dynamics. This is my favoorite aspect of this amp unless I am off base on it.

The drive switch is just a mod thats been around long that simply switches between three different values of cathode bypass caps. Center position should be the same cathode bypass cap as a CCV without this option. Left or right changes two different values of cap which then alters the voicing of the first or second gain stage( I believe pin 8 cathode second stage. The switch should not be a major difference between amps that have or do not have it. I would say its something else like an incosistency in the actual amp making one a little more special than the other. The masters are Jose with the clipping diodes. Without the different cathode caps and diode clipping the CCV does not have allot of gain. The gain it does have works great with these options. If V1 is the channel 2 input tube and V2 the cathode follower, I would assume the CCV has only two gain stages and the cathode follower. Lower gain stages is what gives the amp its cleaner tighter feel. Its almost like playing a clean amp with allot of perceived gain. It also adds to the amps dynamics. You would think an amp that seems to have allot of gain would not be as dynamic as the CCV is. Cool amp. I like it.

I feel you brother.....

And, you are right. You got to like it tight or this isn't the amp for you.

Steve

 

[glip22]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

can't say in public on the F/O !!!

Nah, we got 3rd behind a local hotel band with 2 girls singing in very short school girl skirts with a backing band doing cheesy covers. Hard to compete with that. The other band are locals and very death metal. Great sound, but I can't jive with vocals that sound like someone is throwing up constantly. It was really a BOTB for bands in Bahrain. We were the odd one's in the lot, living in Saudi. Got some offers to go play in Dubai though, and a couple other places in Bahrain. It was all in good fun. We closed with Master of Puppets and had it been a crowd response vs. a 5 panel judging, I think it would have been a different outcome. The judges were local media/magazine/radio types and they were likely bound to pick a local band. The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Steve

Titties and ass is hard to compete with. Good to know the CCV can cut. Man I set mine up with some tone that I know would kill in a band setting. Piercing laser cut. Good shit.

Yeah, they hired a really good sound guy that set us up with a good stage mix and FOH mix. With the CCV, things like OD pedals, boosts, etc. are not needed. Which is part of what makes it an easy amp to handle on stage with very little tap dancing. With easy switching access to both channels and solo boost, it really is a cool amp for the stage and it fills the room and cuts at the same time. It is probably the most "pick attack" controlled amp I have ever played where it generates it's own cutting tone with the pick as opposed to boosting.

Steve

Does this make sense to you? I posted it above but no comments. I am curious if anyone else thought the same about the feel,gain,and dynamics. This is my favoorite aspect of this amp unless I am off base on it.

The drive switch is just a mod thats been around long that simply switches between three different values of cathode bypass caps. Center position should be the same cathode bypass cap as a CCV without this option. Left or right changes two different values of cap which then alters the voicing of the first or second gain stage( I believe pin 8 cathode second stage. The switch should not be a major difference between amps that have or do not have it. I would say its something else like an incosistency in the actual amp making one a little more special than the other. The masters are Jose with the clipping diodes. Without the different cathode caps and diode clipping the CCV does not have allot of gain. The gain it does have works great with these options. If V1 is the channel 2 input tube and V2 the cathode follower, I would assume the CCV has only two gain stages and the cathode follower. Lower gain stages is what gives the amp its cleaner tighter feel. Its almost like playing a clean amp with allot of perceived gain. It also adds to the amps dynamics. You would think an amp that seems to have allot of gain would not be as dynamic as the CCV is. Cool amp. I like it.

I feel you brother.....

And, you are right. You got to like it tight or this isn't the amp for you.

Steve

No loose lips here. It doesn't sag much. Lower power gives some sag but nothing close to what I would call vintage sag. Some people like that. To me that equals ghost notes. Did I say I hate ghost notes. Some people like them. Me, Im a little ocd so they and other things drives me nuts. I just want to play and not be Mr. tech. I like a saggier amp sometimes but that means less filtering which means modulation if you like to turn the amp up. Every one I have ever played had it at high volume. It goes with the territory.

 

[steve_k]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

can't say in public on the F/O !!!

Nah, we got 3rd behind a local hotel band with 2 girls singing in very short school girl skirts with a backing band doing cheesy covers. Hard to compete with that. The other band are locals and very death metal. Great sound, but I can't jive with vocals that sound like someone is throwing up constantly. It was really a BOTB for bands in Bahrain. We were the odd one's in the lot, living in Saudi. Got some offers to go play in Dubai though, and a couple other places in Bahrain. It was all in good fun. We closed with Master of Puppets and had it been a crowd response vs. a 5 panel judging, I think it would have been a different outcome. The judges were local media/magazine/radio types and they were likely bound to pick a local band. The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Steve

Titties and ass is hard to compete with. Good to know the CCV can cut. Man I set mine up with some tone that I know would kill in a band setting. Piercing laser cut. Good shit.

Yeah, they hired a really good sound guy that set us up with a good stage mix and FOH mix. With the CCV, things like OD pedals, boosts, etc. are not needed. Which is part of what makes it an easy amp to handle on stage with very little tap dancing. With easy switching access to both channels and solo boost, it really is a cool amp for the stage and it fills the room and cuts at the same time. It is probably the most "pick attack" controlled amp I have ever played where it generates it's own cutting tone with the pick as opposed to boosting.

Steve

Does this make sense to you? I posted it above but no comments. I am curious if anyone else thought the same about the feel,gain,and dynamics. This is my favoorite aspect of this amp unless I am off base on it.

The drive switch is just a mod thats been around long that simply switches between three different values of cathode bypass caps. Center position should be the same cathode bypass cap as a CCV without this option. Left or right changes two different values of cap which then alters the voicing of the first or second gain stage( I believe pin 8 cathode second stage. The switch should not be a major difference between amps that have or do not have it. I would say its something else like an incosistency in the actual amp making one a little more special than the other. The masters are Jose with the clipping diodes. Without the different cathode caps and diode clipping the CCV does not have allot of gain. The gain it does have works great with these options. If V1 is the channel 2 input tube and V2 the cathode follower, I would assume the CCV has only two gain stages and the cathode follower. Lower gain stages is what gives the amp its cleaner tighter feel. Its almost like playing a clean amp with allot of perceived gain. It also adds to the amps dynamics. You would think an amp that seems to have allot of gain would not be as dynamic as the CCV is. Cool amp. I like it.

I feel you brother.....

And, you are right. You got to like it tight or this isn't the amp for you.

Steve

No loose lips here. It doesn't sag much. Lower power gives some sag but nothing close to what I would call vintage sag. Some people like that. To me that equals ghost notes. Did I say I hate ghost notes. Some people like them. Me, Im a little ocd so they and other things drives me nuts. I just want to play and not be Mr. tech. I like a saggier amp sometimes but that means less filtering which means modulation if you like to turn the amp up. Every one I have ever played had it at high volume. It goes with the territory.

You......OCD?

 

[glip22]

Purple jewel is the only way to go!
Steve, you should set the amps up with the exact same tubes (as in, the same actual set) one after the other, and set the controls exactly the same. Really the only way to tell which sounds "better" IMO.

Exactly.....but, I wanted to put them on an ABY pedal and hit them back and forth on the fly with 2 identical cabs too. If I get time, I will mess with it. I am too busy fucking off right now --- and fucking off takes time.

Steve

Any results on the Bud contest yet? BTW What are you fucking off with??

can't say in public on the F/O !!!

Nah, we got 3rd behind a local hotel band with 2 girls singing in very short school girl skirts with a backing band doing cheesy covers. Hard to compete with that. The other band are locals and very death metal. Great sound, but I can't jive with vocals that sound like someone is throwing up constantly. It was really a BOTB for bands in Bahrain. We were the odd one's in the lot, living in Saudi. Got some offers to go play in Dubai though, and a couple other places in Bahrain. It was all in good fun. We closed with Master of Puppets and had it been a crowd response vs. a 5 panel judging, I think it would have been a different outcome. The judges were local media/magazine/radio types and they were likely bound to pick a local band. The Cameron rig sounded killer though. I can quit looking now

Steve

Titties and ass is hard to compete with. Good to know the CCV can cut. Man I set mine up with some tone that I know would kill in a band setting. Piercing laser cut. Good shit.

Yeah, they hired a really good sound guy that set us up with a good stage mix and FOH mix. With the CCV, things like OD pedals, boosts, etc. are not needed. Which is part of what makes it an easy amp to handle on stage with very little tap dancing. With easy switching access to both channels and solo boost, it really is a cool amp for the stage and it fills the room and cuts at the same time. It is probably the most "pick attack" controlled amp I have ever played where it generates it's own cutting tone with the pick as opposed to boosting.

Steve

Does this make sense to you? I posted it above but no comments. I am curious if anyone else thought the same about the feel,gain,and dynamics. This is my favoorite aspect of this amp unless I am off base on it.

The drive switch is just a mod thats been around long that simply switches between three different values of cathode bypass caps. Center position should be the same cathode bypass cap as a CCV without this option. Left or right changes two different values of cap which then alters the voicing of the first or second gain stage( I believe pin 8 cathode second stage. The switch should not be a major difference between amps that have or do not have it. I would say its something else like an incosistency in the actual amp making one a little more special than the other. The masters are Jose with the clipping diodes. Without the different cathode caps and diode clipping the CCV does not have allot of gain. The gain it does have works great with these options. If V1 is the channel 2 input tube and V2 the cathode follower, I would assume the CCV has only two gain stages and the cathode follower. Lower gain stages is what gives the amp its cleaner tighter feel. Its almost like playing a clean amp with allot of perceived gain. It also adds to the amps dynamics. You would think an amp that seems to have allot of gain would not be as dynamic as the CCV is. Cool amp. I like it.

I feel you brother.....

And, you are right. You got to like it tight or this isn't the amp for you.

Steve

No loose lips here. It doesn't sag much. Lower power gives some sag but nothing close to what I would call vintage sag. Some people like that. To me that equals ghost notes. Did I say I hate ghost notes. Some people like them. Me, Im a little ocd so they and other things drives me nuts. I just want to play and not be Mr. tech. I like a saggier amp sometimes but that means less filtering which means modulation if you like to turn the amp up. Every one I have ever played had it at high volume. It goes with the territory.

You......OCD?

I'm not that bad. I don't line the cans up by size labels facing out you know. I did replace my AC power inlet because the old one had a couple of solder iron burns in the plastic