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Topic: The Sweet Spot |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 18 Dec 2015 11:10 pm |
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It was an outdoor gig under a large tent, dirt floor, rainy night, about 60°F. I was playing my Desert Rose S-8 (Truetone pickup wound to about 13K) with a Goodrich pot pedal into the Milkman Half and Half. The amp was miked and pumped into 2 of the 4 monitor mixes (mine and the piano player's, at the far side of the stage).
Afterwords, half a dozen people commented on how sweet the steel sounded. They all used that word, "sweet". Seems like a good time to document my amp settings. Left to right, it's volume, treble, midrange, bass, reverb, reverb tone.
What's your sweet spot?
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Roger Crawford
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Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2015 7:43 am
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b0b,
With a Mullen G2 and single coil pickup, Goodrich pot pedal, into a Half and Half, our sweet spots are really close. Room conditions can change it slightly, but for the most part I run the mids just a little higher than you. It's really hard to not get great tone with this amp. |
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Jim Newberry
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Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 19 Dec 2015 9:42 am
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Having the controls all at noon +/- a couple of hours says something about how this amp is inherently tuned. Good job, Tim!
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chuck lemasters
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Jacksonburg, WV
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Posted 20 Dec 2015 1:53 pm
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| Rains guitar with 10-1 pickups...not quite that much reverb, bass around 7.... |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2015 3:11 pm
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| chuck lemasters wrote: |
| Rains guitar with 10-1 pickups...not quite that much reverb, bass around 7.... |
FWIW, my amp has a low gain reverb tube (I forget the tube number) because I wanted a larger usable range on the knob. I don't use much reverb.
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chuck lemasters
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Jacksonburg, WV
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Posted 20 Dec 2015 5:23 pm
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| I tried a 12DW7(?) to tame the reverb a bit, but it caused a hum. Returned it for another which also hummed. Gave up and just use a lower setting. I haven't had much opportunity to use it in a band setting lately, but it sounds better at higher volumes. Rich, warm, with none of the spikiness of a Nashville 400(which I also like). |
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 20 Dec 2015 6:29 pm
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I've done the same thing with my reverb driver, b0b. Much more useable range, for me. Your settings very close to mine although always a bit more bass, for me. Might be the Universal setup… Milkman. What a fine amp.
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Charlie Thompson
From:
South Carolina, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2015 1:08 pm
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| Mine about the same a little less treble, but I have a 12" combo. Using with a G2 as well...sounds super. |
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Tom Gorr
From:
Three Hills, Alberta
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Posted 22 Dec 2015 10:21 am
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| B0b... was the tube a 12AT7? |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 22 Dec 2015 11:05 am
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No, it was a 12DW7. My Half&Half is one of the first batch of 4 that Tim made. He modified the reverb circuit soon after that, so I wouldn't recommend the 12DW7 to anyone. It worked for this particular amp, that's all.
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Tom Gorr
From:
Three Hills, Alberta
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Posted 22 Dec 2015 3:18 pm
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| Interesting tube... |
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