08-25-2014, 02:20 AM
Thanks guys for the advice, but I need the headroom.
Yesterday I run the amp at high volume. I set the knobs on my vt-22 with Volume One at 11:00 (rocker switch on 0db), High at 03:00 (high switch on), Medium Freqs at 02:00 (300hz), Bass at 01:00 and Master Volume at maximum. With that settings i like the color, the tone very much.
It was loud, very loud, but in a good way. What i noticed is that the sound was distorted, maybe too much distorted. The only pedal i used was a Boss SD-1 set as a boost. If i turn up the gain on the pedal there was almost no difference in the sound coming from the amplifier. Is that normal (the pedal works perfectly on any other amp)? It was like if the amp can't put out more sound, more fuzzyness. I noticed that, also without the pedal on, sometimes the sound was bad, like the sound of something frying. That happens expecially when I hit hard the strings on the guitar.
So, does the amp need a recap job? Maybe a tubes change? Maybe both? I'm asking because I know that with the settings I use, the amp is supposed to sound overdriven, but in good way, with a lot of headroom, dynamics etc etc... Yesterday was no headroom (no real difference with the pedal engaged or not), no dynamics at all.
It's all original inside & outside, caps, tubes, cones, everything.
Thanks if you can help because here in Italy I think I'm the only one with that amp, so I can't visit some friend that have the same amp.
Sorry for my bad english.
Yesterday I run the amp at high volume. I set the knobs on my vt-22 with Volume One at 11:00 (rocker switch on 0db), High at 03:00 (high switch on), Medium Freqs at 02:00 (300hz), Bass at 01:00 and Master Volume at maximum. With that settings i like the color, the tone very much.
It was loud, very loud, but in a good way. What i noticed is that the sound was distorted, maybe too much distorted. The only pedal i used was a Boss SD-1 set as a boost. If i turn up the gain on the pedal there was almost no difference in the sound coming from the amplifier. Is that normal (the pedal works perfectly on any other amp)? It was like if the amp can't put out more sound, more fuzzyness. I noticed that, also without the pedal on, sometimes the sound was bad, like the sound of something frying. That happens expecially when I hit hard the strings on the guitar.
So, does the amp need a recap job? Maybe a tubes change? Maybe both? I'm asking because I know that with the settings I use, the amp is supposed to sound overdriven, but in good way, with a lot of headroom, dynamics etc etc... Yesterday was no headroom (no real difference with the pedal engaged or not), no dynamics at all.
It's all original inside & outside, caps, tubes, cones, everything.
Thanks if you can help because here in Italy I think I'm the only one with that amp, so I can't visit some friend that have the same amp.
Sorry for my bad english.