SHPD: Harley Benton California
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:15 am
We've been over this sort of thing before on here; it's an amp-emulating preamp, inspired by some other box (Tech21) that costs a stack more but has the option to cut out the speaker emulation, which is permanently "on" with these Joyo-made Harley Benton TrueTone series boxes. Mine was a bro-deal from Gabriel who was having a clear-out to buy a multi-FX.
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As I wasn't going to be able to try it for a couple of days, I lent it to a friend, who told me it didn't "have enough bite" for his application. Last night I took it to the rehearsal rooms and used it with their Blackstar Series One 50W head. It transformed the experience. I took some twiddling to find the balance I wanted between the Level, Voice and Gain controls -Voice has significant impact on volume/distortion rather than being EQ, though I haven't had the time to establish whether it affects the EQ as well. It's replaced the Fuzz Face clone, which I use for controllable dirt (rather than all-out fuzz), on the pedalboard, giving me more flexibility and 3-band EQ while being a fair bit less noisy and giving me my bass back. We'll see how it goes with the Marshall JTM60 combo tomorrow night.
The Musikding forum has a thread with gut shots and noise reduction mod suggestions, such as:
Stock pic:
As I wasn't going to be able to try it for a couple of days, I lent it to a friend, who told me it didn't "have enough bite" for his application. Last night I took it to the rehearsal rooms and used it with their Blackstar Series One 50W head. It transformed the experience. I took some twiddling to find the balance I wanted between the Level, Voice and Gain controls -Voice has significant impact on volume/distortion rather than being EQ, though I haven't had the time to establish whether it affects the EQ as well. It's replaced the Fuzz Face clone, which I use for controllable dirt (rather than all-out fuzz), on the pedalboard, giving me more flexibility and 3-band EQ while being a fair bit less noisy and giving me my bass back. We'll see how it goes with the Marshall JTM60 combo tomorrow night.
The Musikding forum has a thread with gut shots and noise reduction mod suggestions, such as:
(clean the PCB with an old toothbrush and IPA, swap the stock op-amps for TLC2264s) but I'll not worry about that for now.Snyder80 wrote:Mit ner alten Zahnbürste und Isopropanolalkohol (Apotheke) die Platine reinigen und dann bei Zeiten je einen TLC2262/4 einbauen. Der IC "oben" unter dem Mid-Regler kann theorethisch bleiben oder für bessere SN-Ratio auf TL074 (15 nV anstatt 42nV bei TL064) geändert werden. Denn der Mid-Boost kann ca. 12dB ausmachen. Am besten wäre aber auch hier ein TLC2264.
