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Post by Brian on Jun 4, 2014 9:10:23 GMT -7
Is there a way to have the Wreck not break up so soon? I love the tone, but it starts it's natural overdrive too soon for me. Is there some tube swapping I can do to make it have more clean headroom???
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Post by BradPaisleyFan (Pat) on Jun 4, 2014 11:40:19 GMT -7
Maybe if you swap some 12ax7's for 5751's I think would do it but I don't know how the amp would respond to it.
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Post by telejas on Jun 4, 2014 19:37:20 GMT -7
I hate to say it, but I think it's just the nature of the beast. It sure wouldn't hurt to try some different tubes though?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2014 21:13:09 GMT -7
I've been curious about a 12ax7/5751 swap myself. It's hard to imagine it not sounding good.
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Post by muZician on Jun 4, 2014 22:28:10 GMT -7
I think that swapping preamp tubes will not help much, maybe a little bit. The break up is a combination of preamp tube and power tube saturation. Just for my curiosity, Brian: how loud do you play? I use my Zwreck often clean, very clean and it's very loud without breaking up (volume at 10, with a tele)
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Post by Brian on Jun 5, 2014 5:46:11 GMT -7
10-11 on the volume....but with the volume rolled on and some decent pick attack...the amp overdrives. Then when I hit my dirt pedal it gets totally saturated....too much so. I have backed the gain off the dirt pedals (unity), but I can't seem to find a sweet spot with them on. Maybe some more time will change my mind. This amp seems to be made for the guy who just plugs into a tuner and gets drive form the amp. I can see this being a great blues amp...but I haven't connected with it yet.
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Post by stratovarius on Jun 5, 2014 10:25:43 GMT -7
...but with the volume rolled on and some decent pick attack...the amp overdrives... This amp seems to be made for the guy who just plugs into a tuner and gets drive form the amp. I can see this being a great blues amp... That's exactly what it is and it isn't an amp I would care to fight to make do something different from that. Amps having the Trainwreck heritage are made to live in that clean-to-dirty zone.
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Post by muZician on Jun 5, 2014 10:56:30 GMT -7
...but with the volume rolled on and some decent pick attack...the amp overdrives... This amp seems to be made for the guy who just plugs into a tuner and gets drive form the amp. I can see this being a great blues amp... That's exactly what it is and it isn't an amp I would care to fight to make do something different from that. Amps having the Trainwreck heritage are made to live in that clean-to-dirty zone. I agree but since I love the Zwreck even clean I often play it with volume at max 10 (maybe between 9 and 10) with my Tele and without any pedal in between (better said using a true bypass switch which eliminates the pedals from the input loop). It doesn't break up. Maybe with hotter pickups it would...When I need to saturate the Zwreck I use the Wampler Paisley drive (when I have to be quiet) or I turn the Zwreck up to 12 or 1 and use the Airbrake to reduce power. Rolling down the volume, it still cleans up well (OK not completely).
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