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Brightening a 5E3

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6/26/2000 11:48 PM

Brightening a 5E3

Any advice as to how I can add a Vox-ish type chime to one channel of a 5E3 clone?

I like the way my strat sounds in the bright channel(tone set 1/2 way) but a hollow bodied p-90 sounds too dark and garbled even w/ the tone set higher.

I use a .033 as the coupling cap in the bright channel, the normal channel is stock. I was thinking of adding a 330-470pf cap across the normal channel's volume pot, and changing the couping cap to a .02. Would this do the trick?

Thanks in advance.

6/27/2000 1:53 PM

leave the clean channel alone. On the 'dark' channel, change the cathode bypass cap to 0.68uF, and change the coupling cap to 0.0047 uF. try that. Also try using a a "y" cord and jumpering channels if you find that too thin, with the mix, you should get it. If it's still too dark at lower volumes, you could use a 250pf bright cap, wired like on the 'bright' channel. Adding in a bit of NFB may also help you get there.

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