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Post by gtrnstuff on Mar 17, 2009 18:22:40 GMT -7
Picked up a used Galaxie yesterday. Seemed fine at the store, and at home, until a wierd sagging thing started, kind of pinched hi mids. While checking the bias with Weber bias rite heads, the rectifier gave up. OK, new fuse, rectifier, known good TAD 6L6. Everything sounds great for a while. Now the wierdness starts again. I was running it into a Marshall SE-100 attenuator, the GT licensed one. So I bypassed that. Still sounding a bit off. Time to try and return, take to a tech, or ship to Dr.Z?
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Post by gtrnstuff on Mar 18, 2009 9:57:13 GMT -7
Yeah, Todd Sharp here I come. Until then, I can't help but speculate:
The oddness is only on channel 1, especially with humbuckers. The tone sounds normal kicking in a fulldrive in comp cut, or in channel 2. So it may even be a designed voicing thing to get the sparkle in channel 1 when clean. When running channel 1 at 10:00 or more, some pickups may drive that channel and hit certain frequencies and overload things in an unexpected way.
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Post by gtrnstuff on Apr 30, 2009 8:52:44 GMT -7
Got it back from Nashville Amp Service (Todd Sharp). They found nothing wrong. It's still unlike any other amp I have. Vol 1 does great clean up to about 9:00, then the medium grind kicks in with lots of sag and sort of pinched mids. Vol 2 at 9:30 sounds really strong. Still wondering about it.
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Post by gtrnstuff on Apr 30, 2009 13:59:13 GMT -7
Well, after more knob twisting, I may have found what I was after. My default tone settings for clean and hi gain were: Vol 1 8:30 to 9:00 Vol 2 9:00 or 10:00 Presence 1:00 or so Bass 9:00 or 10:00 Treble 1:00 or 2:00 To blow past the pinched weird sound, just max out the treble control. I thought it had to be something in the preamp stages, since Vol 2 sounded so full and strong. Now I know how to make the Galaxie do the "kerrang" thing on Vol 1.
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