Re: marshall 2203 brown sound...Tonefactor

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3/6/2000 5:28 AM

rebel420

Re: marshall 2203 brown sound...Tonefactor >Really?? I didn't know this! Hell, I'll be getting me >some of those 6550's then. I like the GE 6550's a lot >for clean power. They rule as far as 6550's go.     Yea, I grew up 5 miles out of the town of oen fo the biggest Sylvania factories (St. Marys Pennsylvania -- ALSO the home of Stackpole switches and resistors!)   and 15 miles from the last Sylvania plant to make Tubes (Emporium, PA). Needless to say, there are a LOT of old-timers in my area who have boxes and boxes of NOS sylvania tubes... Got a couple pairs of 6v6's myself... and HAD access to a LOT of 6w6's, which woudnt be a good 6v6 substitute, but for my hoembrews.. I could have had enough to make some 3-4 Watt Champclones for a few years ..     >putting a 6550 in my wah   Did you try the ef86 based fuzzwhah that Eric Barbour from Svetlana came up with.. plans are either on his site or on the ax84 site... heard a few soundcips of it into one of the ax84 P1's (1-12ax7,1-el84 SE amp)... talk about "the" hendrix tone!!     >Yepper!! Fender's sound cool with different power >tubes but many people feel they loose the Fender'y >twang/jangle that people love.     I noticed tthe people who used El34's tend to be a) pedal steel players (who also LOVE 6550's), and Jazz players, and some rockers who use a lot of effects, and want a more transparent clean tone.. but yea, they just dont give that Fender vibe.

 

3/6/2000 2:42 PM

Trace

quote: "Did you try the ef86 based fuzzwhah that Eric Barbour from Svetlana came up with.. plans are either on his site or on the ax84 site... heard a few soundcips of it into one of the ax84 P1's (1-12ax7,1-el84 SE amp)... talk about "the" hendrix tone!!"     I've heard of this but I haven't seen a schematic as of yet. I've been so busy lately that I haven't had much time to surf for cool goodies like that!     Trace

 

3/2/2000 11:03 PM

Tonefactor

>>Do you jump the grids together and use the pre-amp volume >>as the main volume pot and leave the master volume in >>there?     Yeah, I leave the master in place and usually leave the bass channel out of the circuit since I don't use it anyway.     >>I've tried a 1uF here and it sounds good.     Agreed. I use a 1uf when I don't have a .68 available.     >>Do you alter the coupling caps at all?     Yeah, I prefer the sound of a .0022uf coupling cap after the first stage.

 

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