Nick wrote:
If I remember I will bring it to Owston and you can have a play. Yes please with the drivers, still mean to make a amp. You never know, one day I may need more than one watt
Sounds good, tah.
While we're on the subject, anyone interested in how my franketstein cabinet sounds? (the one with 4 entirely mis-matched drivers)
- could drive it out the 1w valve thingy - that'll be loud.
Nick wrote:Well this little amp is meant to sound good driving a 4*12
Mine's a 4x10 cab. I'll make an adaptor to get an 8ohm load (it's currently wired for 2x 4ohm loads, as the head I'm using is stereo).
Paul, if you wanted a light valve amplifier, I'd strongly consider using a switch mode power supply: there's a lot of iron in a conventional power supply, and I expect replacing that would help with the weight issue.
I've spent some very enjoyable time today playing geetar through the Baby Blackstar, both Strat and SG, and it's been great fun
The natural compression of a hard driven valve amp is a joy to play with and to hear.
The EQ is excellent too, with a wide and usable sweep from bright American style amp tones through to the darker sounds of Marshall.
There's a bit of low end grunt missing, but that do you expect from an 8" tiddler (in guitaring terms) of a speaker?
Nick wrote:Well this little amp is meant to sound good driving a 4*12
Mine's a 4x10 cab. I'll make an adaptor to get an 8ohm load (it's currently wired for 2x 4ohm loads, as the head I'm using is stereo).
Paul, if you wanted a light valve amplifier, I'd strongly consider using a switch mode power supply: there's a lot of iron in a conventional power supply, and I expect replacing that would help with the weight issue.
The Stratmangler wrote:Dunno about you Nick, but I've put in a good few more hours playing since I bought the baby Blackstar.
The clean tones with a Strat are to die for.
Nice isnt it
Whenever an honest man discovers that he's mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or he will cease to be honest.
The Stratmangler wrote:Dunno about you Nick, but I've put in a good few more hours playing since I bought the baby Blackstar.
The clean tones with a Strat are to die for.
Nice isnt it
It's luvverly
My Strat's bridge pickup is another matter though...
It sounds fine when in conjunction with the middle, but on its own.....?
My cheap Chinease Telecaster look a likie (well approximation) copy has a great sound from the bridge pickup a sweet soft sound from the neck pickup and the combination does nothing for me.
Even though I have some expensive Seamore Duncan Alnico pickups this as a ready made axe is sounding so good that I dare not strip it to fit them. I shall reserve them for when I have time to make the axe which I have now left in the cellar to gather dust.
I find the Telecaster neck so much easier to play than the classical guitar neck I haven't got the classical out of it's case. My plumbes fingers though slightly oversized are having no problems adapting to the new experience of metal strings, I could even say I prefer them. The sound of the high E string alone without pickup or amplification is great.
The Stratmangler wrote:Dunno about you Nick, but I've put in a good few more hours playing since I bought the baby Blackstar.
The clean tones with a Strat are to die for.
Nice isnt it
It's luvverly
My Strat's bridge pickup is another matter though...
It sounds fine when in conjunction with the middle, but on its own.....?
Fairly sure the bridge pickup is wired directly to the switch (with no tone control) on Strats. With my Squier, I played with the wiring so that the neck and middle pickups share the first tone control, and the bridge one gets its own - I find them far too bright without that. Not so bad with distortion: the extra harmonics seem to bring about more crunch.
The Telecaster has the tone control across the output, so both pickups.
Can't say much about the neck strat sound with this amp as mine has a humbucker in that position.
Paul: often what doesn't sound like that good a tone from a guitar is just waiting for the right playing style to make it make sense, like I said before, much of the tone is in the fingers.
Whenever an honest man discovers that he's mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or he will cease to be honest.
chris661 wrote:Fairly sure the bridge pickup is wired directly to the switch (with no tone control) on Strats. With my Squier, I played with the wiring so that the neck and middle pickups share the first tone control, and the bridge one gets its own - I find them far too bright without that. Not so bad with distortion: the extra harmonics seem to bring about more crunch.
Worth a mess around IMO.
Chris
I'm going to try the wiring á la Eric Johnson Strat - the middle pickup has no connect to a tone control, but the bridge does.
If that don't work for me then I'll try sticking neck & middle on one tone control and the bridge on t'other.
it might be that a different pickup (or pickups) is what's required.