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Topic: Peavey Session 400 Amp Setting |
Joe Blount
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Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
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Posted 1 Jul 2007 6:19 pm |
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For The one's still using the Session 400 Amp.
What Setting do you use? Let's see how they compare with mine. |
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Kenny Davis
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Great State of Oklahoma
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Posted 1 Jul 2007 6:35 pm
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With Pro II, original pickups, GHS strings, JBL E130 8 ohm, and Emmons volume pedal:
Presence - 5
Treble - 8
Middle - 4.5
Shift - 4
Bass - 9
Reverb - 4
Sensitivity - Usually 10 when on stage
If I use my Profex II, I might alter the Presence and Shift slightly, and set the Reverb to 0. |
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Joe Blount
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Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
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Posted 1 Jul 2007 7:10 pm Peavey Session 400 Amp Setting
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| Thanks Kenny, But, do you get a frying noise with the Sensitivity at 10? I have to watch the Presence & sensitivity and not run them to high for that reason. |
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Kenny Davis
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Great State of Oklahoma
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Posted 1 Jul 2007 7:26 pm
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The only time that I usually notice any noise with the Sensitivity cranked, it has to do with the stage lights or something electrical on stage. I really notice it in the studio, though. If I use the amp in the studio, I usually set it on 4-5. I almost always record through the board now.
What guitar do you use, and what's your amp settings? |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Jul 2007 8:13 pm
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| Kenny Davis wrote: |
With Pro II, original pickups, GHS strings, JBL E130 8 ohm, and Emmons volume pedal:
Presence - 5
Treble - 8
Middle - 4.5
Shift - 4
Bass - 9
Reverb - 4
Sensitivity - Usually 10 when on stage
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Thanks Kenny. I tried those settings on my Session 400 Limited and they work better than what I was using. (I have a Sho-Bud Crossover connected to it.)
I have two questions...
[1] Do you have the Session 400 or the Session 400 Limited ?
[2] Have you had the chip upgrade ?
If the answer to [2] is "Yes", how do you get to the chips, because I've got the new chip set and can't figure out how to get them in.  |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 2 Jul 2007 6:37 am
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| If you get a frying noise with nothing plugged in and the sensitivity at 10, I would suspect a noisy transistor or other component issue in the preamp board. If you use a Profex or other gain type unit then its output is too hot for the input and will cause noise. Typically a Profex only needs to be at 3-4 at the output level on the back of the unit. A Tubefex and Transtubefex are worse to get noise, they need to be set at 20-25 on the output in the "GLOBAL" menu. |
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Kenny Davis
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Great State of Oklahoma
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Posted 2 Jul 2007 1:29 pm
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Alan: Mine is an original "smooth face" Session 400. It came with a JBL M30 speaker that I kept a total of 10 days! I traded Reese Anderson out of a D130. After two re-cones, I replaced it with the E series. I might add that I had the pot in my volume pedal replaced last week with a N.O.S. A-B pot that I had for 20 years!
I did have the upgrade done 4 or 5 years ago by a guy here in OKC. I didn't watch him do it, so I couldn't tell you how he did it. I think he gave me the old ones, though! I really didn't notice that much of a change. I had the upgrade done to my Profex at the Dallas show year before last.
Ken: Good info on the effects units, etc.! |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 3 Jul 2007 6:49 pm
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'77 JBL Session (with Steel King speaker replacement) and a Pro 1:
Treble 1
Presence 2
Mids 3
Shift 7
Bass 9
Reverb 4
Sensitivity 10
The Eminence speaker is harsh on the highs, so I have most of the highs dialed out. When I had the original JBL, I could run the treble and presence higher, like 3 and 5 respectively. The other controls were the same using the JBL.
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Joe Alterio
From:
Irvington, Indiana
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Posted 4 Jul 2007 11:32 am
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Lloyd's settings from a concert in Indiana in the mid-1970s:
Presence - 4
Treble - 7
Mid - 3
Shift - 10
Bass - 10
Sens - 4
I actually use this as my default setting, having grown accustomed to the sound....I prefer this setting (esp. the shift at 10) over the "usual" settings....give it a try!  |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 4 Jul 2007 12:08 pm
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I think that running the shift high is the key to getting that great, lively sound out of a Session 400.
I have run my Sensitivity on 10 since Canadian steel greats Steve Smith and Bob Lucier both used my amp a while back on shows here in St. John's. They both ran it wide open, and I liked the way it sounded. They both went for that knob and opened it up as a matter of course. They in turn ran the volume low, around 2 or 3. It seemed to break up their signal ever so slightly, giving it a bite.
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2007 2:38 pm
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I don't know if this is fact but I had info back in the early 80's that Paul Franklin set all controls on the Session 400 on 10 (wide open). I'm sure this did not include the volume and reverb control.
Jerry |
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