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Re: Trace, please post your results.

9/28/2000 8:52 PM
BWilliamson	Re: Trace, please post your results. Don't know why I didn't try this before. I pulled the bypass cap off of the second stage a whammo. Not half the gain from the pre as before. Sounds very Blkface to about 5 on the dial, then moves into some nice higher gain tones. With the volume cranked backing off the guitar volume brings it back into BLKface territory. Not as rich as my previous attempts with the cap in there and the lower gain tubes. But sounds very good. Never tried this before, but going to experiment with a cap floated off of ground with a resistor to see what that does. Hopefully Steve will post your mods and maybe I can give them a try. bw

9/28/2000 8:52 PM

BWilliamson

Re: Trace, please post your results.

Don't know why I didn't try this before. I pulled the bypass cap off of the second stage a whammo. Not half the gain from the pre as before. Sounds very Blkface to about 5 on the dial, then moves into some nice higher gain tones. With the volume cranked backing off the guitar volume brings it back into BLKface territory. Not as rich as my previous attempts with the cap in there and the lower gain tubes. But sounds very good.

Never tried this before, but going to experiment with a cap floated off of ground with a resistor to see what that does. Hopefully Steve will post your mods and maybe I can give them a try.

bw

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Peter S Well, I tried the mods I suggested ... -- 9/29/2000 2:45 PM