Doog's Tedious Amp Adventures
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In order to tame the nastier highs of the Valvestate that you just can't dial out, I've come up with the genius solution of a patch lead with a cap installed. It acts as a passive tone control when placed in the FX loop, the level of which is controllable using the FX loop mix dial on the amp's front panel.
BAM: warm tonez. Works surprisingly well, and certainly makes the VS a far worthier stand-in.
In order to tame the nastier highs of the Valvestate that you just can't dial out, I've come up with the genius solution of a patch lead with a cap installed. It acts as a passive tone control when placed in the FX loop, the level of which is controllable using the FX loop mix dial on the amp's front panel.
BAM: warm tonez. Works surprisingly well, and certainly makes the VS a far worthier stand-in.
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My valvestate has some nasty highs that I can't seem to get rid of aswell... How would one go about doing the patch lead-cap thing?Doog wrote:More on this dull saga:
In order to tame the nastier highs of the Valvestate that you just can't dial out, I've come up with the genius solution of a patch lead with a cap installed. It acts as a passive tone control when placed in the FX loop, the level of which is controllable using the FX loop mix dial on the amp's front panel.
BAM: warm tonez. Works surprisingly well, and certainly makes the VS a far worthier stand-in.
Doog wrote:"And every day after high school, the young Kurt would sit down with his soldering iron and oscilloscope, to work on what come to be known as the Boss DS-1, the world's first guitar distortion pedal."
Basically you need a patch cable that has unscrewable jacks so you can get at the precious, precious connections.ohyeahfuzzbear wrote:My valvestate has some nasty highs that I can't seem to get rid of aswell... How would one go about doing the patch lead-cap thing?
You just connect the capacitor between the hot and the ground lugs of one jack, making sure it's not touching anything else. I had to make "flying leads" from the jack as my rather bulky cap (pinched from a dead OD pedal) wouldn't fit inside the jack itself.
I guess if you used the right value of cap, it'd have a subtle effect so you wouldn't necessarily need a FX loop mix dial- it'd just attenuate the highs a little.
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ohyeahfuzzbear
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This should really help! Thanks man...Doog wrote:Basically you need a patch cable that has unscrewable jacks so you can get at the precious, precious connections.ohyeahfuzzbear wrote:My valvestate has some nasty highs that I can't seem to get rid of aswell... How would one go about doing the patch lead-cap thing?
You just connect the capacitor between the hot and the ground lugs of one jack, making sure it's not touching anything else. I had to make "flying leads" from the jack as my rather bulky cap (pinched from a dead OD pedal) wouldn't fit inside the jack itself.
I guess if you used the right value of cap, it'd have a subtle effect so you wouldn't necessarily need a FX loop mix dial- it'd just attenuate the highs a little.
Doog wrote:"And every day after high school, the young Kurt would sit down with his soldering iron and oscilloscope, to work on what come to be known as the Boss DS-1, the world's first guitar distortion pedal."
Haha, I'm fairly certain it was an indirect Simpsons quote.
What I don't actually do in the video is mess with the EQ so the amp doesn't lose it's "cut". Even with the middle and treble nearly dimed, the amp sounds so much more musical without those crispy highs.
EDIT: just edited that badboy to include the above, oh yaarrrh; it's a slow day.
What I don't actually do in the video is mess with the EQ so the amp doesn't lose it's "cut". Even with the middle and treble nearly dimed, the amp sounds so much more musical without those crispy highs.
EDIT: just edited that badboy to include the above, oh yaarrrh; it's a slow day.