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Quote from: Tassieviking on April 10, 2024, 03:54:51 PMI think the best way to go forward would be to inject a clean signal and check the test-points with an oscilloscope.Thanks!
Being a SMD build it gets a bit harder to check and replace components.
Quote from: JonnyDeth on March 31, 2024, 09:14:42 AMQuote from: RookieRecurve on March 31, 2024, 08:39:55 AMI see these pop up often around me, but not for that price! There's one I saw for $100 with only one of the two channels working. I thought about buying it to try and fix it, then flip it. It would be too loud for me, but they are pretty amazing amps. The ease of access to incredible schematics makes these a great buy.
I saw a guy on youtube that flips gear for a living and he nabbed one for $40! He said it was his very first amp so he made a video with it then sent it on it's way to someone who had bought it.
I am a shred and sweep player so it's a little harsh in the bass due to the very high, even order harmonics added by semiconductors, but in combining the dirty channel with my modeler and an overdrive pedal I actually designed around this amplifier's dirty channel used to overdrive the modeler, I get perfectly useable lead tones. I also have a Zoom G5 on the way to replace the one I have that some crazy b*t** smashed, and those with the 12AX7 in them turn damn near any amp into a thoroughbred.
That coupled with this and I have a brutal metal amp but really, an every genre amp. It's so friggin loud I could never actually use this much volume and in a live setting, I would definitely be using earplugs.
It's all about gain stage cascades and teaming the right devices. Solid-States have some universal problems shared by 99% of them, but Crate is highly underrated and players with really high standards would rather spend 3 grand on known gear combinations than experiment and get something built for $500 that is every bit as good as the 3 G's arrangement. The Zoom G5 is an example within itself because when you run the processor without the tube engaged, it's very digital and quite truly sounds cheap, but when you switch the tube in and crank it's gain, it makes every single patch you design for modeling whatever amp, pedal and speaker combination sound amazing. The harshness, "swooshing" etc. to your bass is completely filtered out of the signal by the tube's limited bandwidth. The 12AX7 is said to have a maximum of 20Khz for audio, but typical is actually 10 Khz. The semiconductors will add ridiculous harmonic bandwidth like 40 Khz to a 100 Hz bass note!
This trait is why solid-states continue to be the whipping boy of the industry and because digital circuits are still using solid-state semiconductors, 90% of those units aren't designed to compensate so the war wages on! I shutter at the sight of digital modelers and FX I see selling for $1500 and I can hear all those extremely high, even order harmonics still coming out of them and trashing the signal, but not every player is sweeping and shredding for it to matter.
The technology guarantees people will always spend big money on tube amps, and even I'm still guilty of that.
Quote from: g1 on April 08, 2024, 08:04:14 PMI think there may be some confusion now about the 'distorted sound'.Yes, I am getting the proper DS-1 distorted sound as expected from that pedal.
You are getting the proper sound of the Boss pedal using the FX return?