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Re: ultra linear

5/5/2003 2:41 AM
Mikko	Re: ultra linear Based on my rather short time (but intensive ok) experiences you can make them sound pretty similar way...and before I tried it myself I always thought the UL is "colder", "thinner" or something like that, but find out thats not true at all. Think it depends much how the rest of circuit is wired and is there additional/traditional nfb-loop included too (this combination sounds pretty liveless and bad to me at least with high gain pre) or is the nfb-loop is completely removed (which I just love now!) Don't know much tech stuff behind it but I think UL gives some benefit for the overall tighter bass response too, but nothing too dramatic compared to my earlier tries with common setups though. (fixed screen supply.) Also - can't say if its mostly because of the UL or full bandwith tranny or removing the trad nfb-loop, but I've found it very cool that I can now (almost) go from clean jazzy maj7 chords to full shred with only changing my picking attack...and all those different intervals like min/maj 3rds, min/maj 7ths don't go "mushy" in high gain situation. So now, after this speech (like from Beck's guitar shop record, haha) you just gotta give it a try? Mikko

5/5/2003 2:41 AM

Mikko

Re: ultra linear

Based on my rather short time (but intensive ok) experiences you can make them sound pretty similar way...and before I tried it myself I always thought the UL is "colder", "thinner" or something like that, but find out thats not true at all. Think it depends much how the rest of circuit is wired and is there additional/traditional nfb-loop included too (this combination sounds pretty liveless and bad to me at least with high gain pre) or is the nfb-loop is completely removed (which I just love now!)

Don't know much tech stuff behind it but I think UL gives some benefit for the overall tighter bass response too, but nothing too dramatic compared to my earlier tries with common setups though. (fixed screen supply.) Also - can't say if its mostly because of the UL or full bandwith tranny or removing the trad nfb-loop, but I've found it very cool that I can now (almost) go from clean jazzy maj7 chords to full shred with only changing my picking attack...and all those different intervals like min/maj 3rds, min/maj 7ths don't go "mushy" in high gain situation.

So now, after this speech (like from Beck's guitar shop record, haha) you just gotta give it a try?

Mikko

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