hansenolsen
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Hi, new guy here
I just recently bought a store demo Archon 100 from early 2014 (january?). It was shipped to me, and upon arrival I thought that I had to turn the amp up too high on the master of the lead channel to get a usable volume (3 o clock), and to get usable distortion I almost had to max out the gain. By comparison mye 6505+ and Victory Kraken would be on below nine o clock to get the same volume.
I changed the tubes, and that did improve things, so now I can have the master around noon, and the gain around four o clock to get an ok amount of gain. If I use a clean boost things do improve, but I did expect the amp to have more distortion on its own. I do have a suspicion that something isn't quite right. Can anyone chip in?
(The bias is correct btw)
I just recently bought a store demo Archon 100 from early 2014 (january?). It was shipped to me, and upon arrival I thought that I had to turn the amp up too high on the master of the lead channel to get a usable volume (3 o clock), and to get usable distortion I almost had to max out the gain. By comparison mye 6505+ and Victory Kraken would be on below nine o clock to get the same volume.
I changed the tubes, and that did improve things, so now I can have the master around noon, and the gain around four o clock to get an ok amount of gain. If I use a clean boost things do improve, but I did expect the amp to have more distortion on its own. I do have a suspicion that something isn't quite right. Can anyone chip in?
(The bias is correct btw)
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