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Post by jhen86 (jordan) on Oct 10, 2020 7:07:45 GMT -7
This is really more of an RXJR thing but I figured it would be more timely and applicable here. Been tweaking outside of my “normal” settings on my RXJR lately, trying to coax max headroom out.
Now the following assumes Doc used the same post PI master volume scenario on both amps, which i I think he did. The MV on the RXJR doesn’t seem to do much between noon and full on. Has its most noticeable attenuation in the bottom half of the rotation. But I recently discovered a cool trick.
Typically we run our master low and volume/gain high to encourage breakup. Ive recently found dialing the master back to Noon on the RX loses very little apparent volume but cleans up the tone just a touch. Almost like it’s just taking the edge off the signal that’s slam into the power section and keeping it clean a bit longer.
If anyone out there is trying to get max headroom out of the zwreck jr, I’d encourage you to try dialing the master back a touch and see if that cleans things up a bit for you.
I can already hear the comments, “But it sounds so much better dirty!” And I’d agree. But just wanted to report an interesting finding I’ve had. Thought it may be helpful to someone.
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Post by redtele on Oct 10, 2020 23:56:27 GMT -7
Hey jhen86 this matches up with my findings too.
The master volume on the Zwreck affects the character and feel of the amp as much as adding volume and gain, and it's been my experience that much past noon doesn't massively increase the volume but instead just adds to the saturation.
This is what I use for playing big riffs on my telecaster, as raising the master volume thickens things up without increasing the overall volume too much.
In my quest for more clean headroom I lowered the gain and raised the master, but it seemed to almost be as distorted but just had a slightly different tone and not much cleaner, as I imagine I was now distorting the power amp instead of the pre amp, so the overall amount of gain was almost the same, just now coming from different a different place in the amp.
If you adjusted the controls with your eyes only, you would think that turning down the master would lose you lots of volume, but if you really listen then as you say, what actually happens is that maybe a touch of volume is lost, but mostly the change will be in the clean-up.
This is not a night and day change, but another small step to help dial in your amp and really learn how it works and responds, and I am getting forever closer to mastering this seemingly simple amp.
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