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Ok, After wanting to check the amp out with no pedals and so forth at first to get a feel for just the amp, I plugged a few things in the loop and made a bit of a discovery... When I got the amp, the send and return volumes were both jacked up all the way. I had no idea that they affected anything if nothing was plugged into the loop, so I didn't mess with it. After reading the manual saying that the sweet spot for them is around 2:00 for each, I turned them down to 2:00. The amp sounds better... but now it's EVEN quieter. Anyway, I threw the normal loop pedals in there TC Dreamscape>Flashback>Arena> MXR 10 band EQ. All the pedals work well in the loop and sound great.
The real fun began when I turned on the EQ and started trying to dial in a more Marshall like tone. The gain channel sounded killer with a bit of EQ.
Also, after more playing with the EQ and bright switch, I had the gain channel sounding better than ever last night even without the EQ. I am starting to absolutely LOVE this amp.
There's still one thing that I find a bit disconcerting. Last night, gain channel volume at 12:00, at home, wife 2 rooms away, I literally cranked the output up to 2:00... and got away with it. I still can't figure out why this amp isn't louder. YES I understand pot taper differences etc., but I still can't quite grasp this. I kicked on the EQ once and had accidentally bumped the output volume slider up about 6dB. Hit one chord and almost went through the wall. Now THERE is the volume I was expecting... Big amp power! ... but when I put the EQ back to unity on the in and out sliders, it really wasn't that loud. Unplugging everything from the loop and going straight in out front is identical volume, so it's not being reduced by something I"m plugging in.
I think the one thing that might be helping the tone, is that one day last week I got 15 minutes with the volumes cranked, trying to break in the V30s a bit. Even just a few minutes seems to have the cab sounding a bit better.
The volume.... puzzling. I'm not saying it's not getting loud for home playing, but this is a 50 watt amp. I know this means nothing, but my old Classic 30 on 4 with 1x12 was louder than this amp is at 2:00 with a big 2x12. I could NEVER EVER EVER turn my C30 up to even 3 with the wife home (using pedals for OD sent just above unity level). I know how that volume came on all at once, and this was is SUPER smooth... Still puzzled about this though. Next time the wife leaves, I'm going to actually take turns with it and my Mark V 25, clean and OD channels, same speaker cab, and see if the H is even as loud as the Boogie is.
If I can pull a term from my audiophile days, this amp is more transparent than any amp I've played. Several of my good OD/Dist pedals sound better through this clean channel than I've ever heard them sound. Clean and gain channels both are SUPER revealing. The differences between guitars are MUCH more clear, as are the differences in pickups, pickup switch position... everything is super clear even with gain. This really does remind me of the differences when I started moving up to higher end stereo equipment back in the day.
This really is a "high end" amp.
The real fun began when I turned on the EQ and started trying to dial in a more Marshall like tone. The gain channel sounded killer with a bit of EQ.
Also, after more playing with the EQ and bright switch, I had the gain channel sounding better than ever last night even without the EQ. I am starting to absolutely LOVE this amp.
There's still one thing that I find a bit disconcerting. Last night, gain channel volume at 12:00, at home, wife 2 rooms away, I literally cranked the output up to 2:00... and got away with it. I still can't figure out why this amp isn't louder. YES I understand pot taper differences etc., but I still can't quite grasp this. I kicked on the EQ once and had accidentally bumped the output volume slider up about 6dB. Hit one chord and almost went through the wall. Now THERE is the volume I was expecting... Big amp power! ... but when I put the EQ back to unity on the in and out sliders, it really wasn't that loud. Unplugging everything from the loop and going straight in out front is identical volume, so it's not being reduced by something I"m plugging in.
I think the one thing that might be helping the tone, is that one day last week I got 15 minutes with the volumes cranked, trying to break in the V30s a bit. Even just a few minutes seems to have the cab sounding a bit better.
The volume.... puzzling. I'm not saying it's not getting loud for home playing, but this is a 50 watt amp. I know this means nothing, but my old Classic 30 on 4 with 1x12 was louder than this amp is at 2:00 with a big 2x12. I could NEVER EVER EVER turn my C30 up to even 3 with the wife home (using pedals for OD sent just above unity level). I know how that volume came on all at once, and this was is SUPER smooth... Still puzzled about this though. Next time the wife leaves, I'm going to actually take turns with it and my Mark V 25, clean and OD channels, same speaker cab, and see if the H is even as loud as the Boogie is.
If I can pull a term from my audiophile days, this amp is more transparent than any amp I've played. Several of my good OD/Dist pedals sound better through this clean channel than I've ever heard them sound. Clean and gain channels both are SUPER revealing. The differences between guitars are MUCH more clear, as are the differences in pickups, pickup switch position... everything is super clear even with gain. This really does remind me of the differences when I started moving up to higher end stereo equipment back in the day.
This really is a "high end" amp.
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