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Re: Fender NORMAL as distortion "pedal" ?

1/19/2000 9:35 PM
Doc	Re: Fender NORMAL as distortion "pedal" ? I once played around with a twin reverb. I disabled the #2 jack of the normal channel and rewired it as a circuit break. When a cord was plugged in, the normal preamp signal (after the 2nd section of V1) came out. The cord was jumpered over to the input of the virato/reverb channel. Gain was outrageous, and unusable. I proceded to experiment with resistor pairs as voltage dividers, and installed a pair inside one plug of my special jumper cord. (That way, there wasn't any permanent voltage divider wired inside the amp.) Without the cord plugged in, the amp's operation was normal (except that #2N jack could not be used as an input). I messed around with this setup, using an A/B footswitch backwards, guitar cable into the "output" jack, and a pair of cords from the "input" jacks. One cord went to the vibrato channel, the other went to the normal channel amp input jacks. I had footswitchable gain-boost. The novelty wore off, and I eventually went inside and rerwired the jacks back to stock, and made both channels "reverb" channels. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

1/19/2000 9:35 PM

Doc

Re: Fender NORMAL as distortion "pedal" ?

I once played around with a twin reverb. I disabled the #2 jack of the normal channel and rewired it as a circuit break. When a cord was plugged in, the normal preamp signal (after the 2nd section of V1) came out. The cord was jumpered over to the input of the virato/reverb channel. Gain was outrageous, and unusable. I proceded to experiment with resistor pairs as voltage dividers, and installed a pair inside one plug of my special jumper cord. (That way, there wasn't any permanent voltage divider wired inside the amp.) Without the cord plugged in, the amp's operation was normal (except that #2N jack could not be used as an input). I messed around with this setup, using an A/B footswitch backwards, guitar cable into the "output" jack, and a pair of cords from the "input" jacks. One cord went to the vibrato channel, the other went to the normal channel amp input jacks. I had footswitchable gain-boost. The novelty wore off, and I eventually went inside and rerwired the jacks back to stock, and made both channels "reverb" channels. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.