Soundclip of my Metro-modded 1959SLP
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Soundclip of my Metro-modded 1959SLP
Yup, I bit the bullet. Just got my reissue back from George. The amp has been modified to the 12xxx series early '68 Super Lead circiut with Zoso caps and Mercury output tranny . The amp has a PPI master in it. It sounds good. But it is humming alot. It's definitely sweeter on the top end, not as raspy. Here's a quick clip, I couldn't resist. But my chops are rusty and I'm recording onto a laptop now, not my old setup, which was quieter.
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Re: Soundclip of my Metro-modded 1959SLP
That definitely shouldnt be and its probably an easy fix. George has a trick for tracking down hum. Do you work on your own amps? Im only asking because it sounds like you had George do the work.Crunchboy wrote:The amp has a PPI master in it. It sounds good. But it is humming alot.
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I think the trick he uses is to pull each preamp tube one at a time from V1 to V3 to pin down where the hum is starting. For instance, with all the tubes in and hum going strong you pukll V1 and if it stops dead right there then thats where its originating. Actually if the hum increases with the volume knobs (with nothing plugged into the inputs) then you can narrow it down to V1. Then its a matter of checking the lead dress and grounds around the tube youve narrowed it down to assuming its not the tube itself. For that matter have you tried swapping a new tube around?
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Gosh George, I'm sorry. I tracked the hum down to my guitar. I think the grounding is not great (I've changed pickups several times). My brother brought over his Les Paul today and the hum was reduced to normal/acceptable. He thought the amp definitely sounded better than before. We enjoyed some awesome Rock tonesVelvetGeorge wrote:Yeah, I can't have that hum hanging over me. Something must have happened in shipping. Can we swap some tubes and see if anything changes? The bias may have been knocked as well.
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Well, it definitely doesn't sound worse. It seems a little sweeter/more musical/less harsh on the very top end. But you could kind of dial that out of the reissue. After I boost up with my eq pedal, I'm not sure I could easily pick out which is which in a blind test. Bottom line, George rocks but I could easily live with the stock reissue, especially for the VH thing.bmf5150 wrote:todd,does it sound better to you?thats all that matters!
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