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Post by mentalray on Nov 12, 2006 2:56:57 GMT -7
I use the Air Brake together with an overdrive pedal (either Fulldrive II or Frantone Brooklyn) and my MAZ Jr. NR. My problem is, that the Air Brake reduces the volume of the overdrive pedal so much. Even if I turn the volume of the Fulldrive to the max, I don´t get the needed output. How do you handle such a problem? Thanks a lot!
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Nov 12, 2006 3:15:10 GMT -7
I use the Air Brake together with an overdrive pedal (either Fulldrive II or Frantone Brooklyn) and my MAZ Jr. NR. My problem is, that the Air Brake reduces the volume of the overdrive pedal so much. Even if I turn the volume of the Fulldrive to the max, I don´t get the needed output. How do you handle such a problem? Thanks a lot! Can you be more specific about how you have things set and what happens? You normally put an Airbrake on an amp to lower the volume - if that's not what you want, then why do you have the Airbrake in the circuit? Confused here...
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Post by mentalray on Nov 12, 2006 3:40:00 GMT -7
OK; to be a bit more specific... I use the Air Brake to reduce the volume of my amp without turning down master. So far so good. But for playing lead, I have to use a pedal to increase volume and overdrive. But the Air Brake reuduces the volume of the pedal too; so there is almost no difference between rhythm and lead volume... I mean it brings everything to almost the same level. The settings of my FD2 are volume = max, tone =10, overdrive 11, boost (don´t use it very often) = 9. The Pedal is set to FM-modus.
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Post by zdogma on Nov 12, 2006 6:08:39 GMT -7
Yeah, that happens.
You have to turn down the amp, and turn down the airbrake a click or so.
The amp is putting out max volume from the output tubes when it is in pre overdrive mode, and then you hit it with the OD it saturates the preamp, but the power amp is already at the max.
Its a similar principal to my ghia, which doesn't get any louder after 1 o clock on the dial, it just gets more preamp saturation. If I hit it with the FD2 after 1 oclock it gets a bit fuzzy sounding, but the volume won't increase. That effect is accentuated with the airbrake because it decreases the dynamics of the amp by reducing the power.
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Post by benttop (Steve) on Nov 12, 2006 10:23:50 GMT -7
zdogma is right. If you've turned the amp up to where you're getting power tube saturation, you're not going to get much more volume from a pedal. What I do is use the volume control on my guitar for levels. So when I take a solo, I roll the volume up on my guitar at the same time as stepping on the pedal - the pedal is only used for the tone change, the volume boost comes from my guitar volume. That takes a bit of getting used to, but once you get the feel for it you just can't go back.
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Post by mentalray on Nov 12, 2006 14:29:56 GMT -7
zdogma and benttop; thanks a lot; I will try that. By the way, I put master to 12 and volume to 1 o´clock.
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