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1966 Super Reverb...harsh/brittle

10/21/2004 6:37 PM
jason	1966 Super Reverb...harsh/brittle The question folks is can you turn a red apple into a green apple? What i am saying is between speakers, cap/res. values and tubes, can i get more head room and clarity out of my SR. Right now it is very bright, brittle and borderline thin. I have philips 6L6's in there, a Sylvania Rect. tube and an assortman of ge, rca, mullard and sovtek pre-amp tubes...I love hendrix on machine gun, SRV on lenny, and john mayer's lead sound on everything...even KWS has a good sound...i just can't get that head room of the dumbell's, marshall plexi's or vibroverbs/twin reverbs...am i playing a lose lose game here? Maybe some tubes, diff caps and speakers would do the trick...im also playing a mexi strat with swamp ash body and maple neck/fretboard...i have a lil 59'er in the bridge p/u and rest is stock...i use an analog man modded ts9 and sensor relayed dunlop cry baby wah wah pedal 535q i believe...next i need that pedal hendrix uses on machine gun...any help or advice?

10/21/2004 6:37 PM

jason

1966 Super Reverb...harsh/brittle

The question folks is can you turn a red apple into a green apple? What i am saying is between speakers, cap/res. values and tubes, can i get more head room and clarity out of my SR. Right now it is very bright, brittle and borderline thin. I have philips 6L6's in there, a Sylvania Rect. tube and an assortman of ge, rca, mullard and sovtek pre-amp tubes...I love hendrix on machine gun, SRV on lenny, and john mayer's lead sound on everything...even KWS has a good sound...i just can't get that head room of the dumbell's, marshall plexi's or vibroverbs/twin reverbs...am i playing a lose lose game here? Maybe some tubes, diff caps and speakers would do the trick...im also playing a mexi strat with swamp ash body and maple neck/fretboard...i have a lil 59'er in the bridge p/u and rest is stock...i use an analog man modded ts9 and sensor relayed dunlop cry baby wah wah pedal 535q i believe...next i need that pedal hendrix uses on machine gun...any help or advice?

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