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Getting a little off topic for a moment...

12/17/1999 10:56 PM
Jsh	Getting a little off topic for a moment... >>More expensive, true, but is this project or product? Both.. I have intentions not to build it just to look at it and say... "well, yes it worked". I want to actually use it myself for gigs. [NO, not a "product" in the commercial sense of course! I've got better things to do..anyway] well ..never mind... Yeah I'm doing fine, ..most likely passed the test (what an optimizm, hey?). Got myself a Mesa Preamp, to test before buying (..nice deal, right?), when I realized that the THING had switchable channels too... hmm. Well I don't think it's going to be a problem, been there, done that.. already. (Actually my initial design of the project, was born out of an older midi-pedal mod I made. That's where the relais' come from.) What I still wonder is.. are those relais silent (when put INSIDE the guitar signal line). When I used them in the midi-footcontroller, they only switched in the "switching"-line of the amp and not in the guitar signal line. [The amp uses of those photo-thingies-FETs for that, like some of you already suggested for the switchingboard] I am considering to get some of those relais, just to test it. [don't ask, I can't use the ones inside the midi controller, I've sold it long time ago...when I wanted to go back to ... the stompboxes ... sight...who doesn't?] I think it's funny how many guitarplayers end up with some stompboxes after all. By the way I tried the Preamp. Although the solo tone would melt down houses, the rhythm and the .. let's say 'powercord' stuff was not so good, as I imagined. Don't get me wrong, it's wonderful preamp, but... uh, the nose sound doesn't give the right distortion. EQ and stuff is also nice to have, but the thing has SO MUCH compression. Now I know WHY it has some many preamp tubes inside... ...so in the end I started adding stompboxes...SIGHT Anyone ever played that V-twin thingy? Is it any good [=worth the trouble of finding one]? I am looking for that lead tone I refered to earlier, that I liked in the preamp. The normal stompboxes are not an option, I think. The Tubeman II served me well for the power cord stuff, but that's actually not a real stompbox either.

12/17/1999 10:56 PM

Jsh

Getting a little off topic for a moment...

>>More expensive, true, but is this project or product?

:-)

Both.. I have intentions not to build it just to look at it and say... "well, yes it worked". I want to actually use it myself for gigs. [NO, *not* a "product" in the commercial sense of course! I've got better things to do..anyway] well ..never mind...

Yeah I'm doing fine, ..most likely passed the test (what an optimizm, hey?). Got myself a Mesa Preamp, to test before buying (..nice deal, right?),
when I realized that the THING had switchable channels too... hmm. Well I don't think it's going to be a problem, been there, done that.. already. (Actually my initial design of the project, was born out of an older midi-pedal mod I made. That's where the relais' come from.)

What I still wonder is.. are those relais silent (when put INSIDE the guitar signal line). When I used them in the midi-footcontroller, they only switched in the "switching"-line of the amp and not in the guitar signal line. [The amp uses of those photo-thingies-FETs for that, like some of you already suggested for the switchingboard]

I am considering to get some of those relais, just to test it. [don't ask, I can't use the ones inside the midi controller, I've sold it long time ago...when I wanted to go back to ... the stompboxes ... *sight*...who doesn't?]

I think it's funny how many guitarplayers end up with some stompboxes after all.

By the way I tried the Preamp. Although the solo tone would melt down houses, the rhythm and the .. let's say 'powercord' stuff was not so good, as I imagined. Don't get me wrong, it's wonderful preamp, but... uh, the nose sound doesn't give the right distortion. EQ and stuff is also nice to have, but the thing has SO MUCH compression. Now I know WHY it has some many preamp tubes inside...
...so in the end I started adding stompboxes...*SIGHT*

Anyone ever played that V-twin thingy? Is it any good [=worth the trouble of finding one]? I am looking for that lead tone I refered to earlier, that I liked in the preamp.
The normal stompboxes are not an option, I think. The Tubeman II served me well for the power cord stuff, but that's actually not a real stompbox either.

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