james90 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Does crush affect toan? depends... did the fragile harmonics get crushed too? makes it sound a bit ♭ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyjackk Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 makes it sound a bit ♭ :LOL::LOL: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Got some Gotoh HAPs today. Might be a stupid question but I can't seem to adjust them? Tried locking/unlocking on the bottom of the tuners using the allen key but it never seems to budge, and also cant lower or heighten the posts. Am I just being an idiot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james90 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Got some Gotoh HAPs today. Might be a stupid question but I can't seem to adjust them? Tried locking/unlocking on the bottom of the tuners using the allen key but it never seems to budge, and also cant lower or heighten the posts. Am I just being an idiot? Try tightening with the allen key. This actually unlocks them, and then you can spin the post around to get the height correct It should have come with a little manual though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouCantEditSam Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Thinking about getting a set of Tronical tuners for a Strat/partscaster I'm putting together. Anyone on here that with any experience with them? Good? Bad? Great? Useless? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Try tightening with the allen key. This actually unlocks them, and then you can spin the post around to get the height correct It should have come with a little manual though I couldn't seem to tighten or loosen anything though? In either direction it just wouldn't budge, was bending the allen key as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaicen Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 They can be very very tight. Just give it more force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james90 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Niel http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/my-preamp-tubes-have-no-harmonics.1577553/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil. Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Thats why I don't use starved plate designs. Relevant to that though, I have a 12au7 and a 12ay7 to try in the two prototypes I have sitting at home. I'm gonna run them side by side and see which I prefer. Its too messy with a 12ax7 anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james90 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Thats why I don't use starved plate designs. Relevant to that though, I have a 12au7 and a 12ay7 to try in the two prototypes I have sitting at home. I'm gonna run them side by side and see which I prefer. Its too messy with a 12ax7 anyway too much gains? also, those of you familiar with how to restring a bass. Is it common for the holes in the machine heads not to accept standard sized gauges? I've just put a hybrid (45-105) set on my electromatic bass (which is what it came with), and the two bottom strings don't fit the way they should. Thinking I'll replace them next time, unless there's a way around it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil. Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Its a combination of being too gainy and too raspy. Even letting lower frequencies through, its not a particularly nice tone. Its like saying, well you can have a nice warm crunchy tone, or original gsk fail edition shouty loud with point-at-camera action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaicen Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Out of interest, what voltage are you running your tubes at, and how are you powering them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bs Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 They can be very very tight. Just give it more force. Saw this post without seeing any of the previous discussion...Not good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james90 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Saw this post without seeing any of the previous discussion...Not good... I should find a post to restore so that one shows as the first one on this page #manchild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bs Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 I wouldn't put any kind of discussion past this board to be honest, haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil. Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Out of interest, what voltage are you running your tubes at, and how are you powering them? Nixie SMPS putting out 120-140V. Can't remember exactly what I set it out but it's somewhere in that range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaicen Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Looks good, sort of limits you regarding the max current though, so guessing you couldn't expand to a three valve pre-amp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil. Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 well from my learnings, the current rating of the inductor has a lot to do with it. I don't understand the science of it, partly because i end up reading this stuff after a long day in work, but i've also found that lower rated inductors (I have a bunch of 0.1A ones) also seem to struggle at higher voltages. I'm currently using 1A ones, and although they're a bit bigger, they're not excessively big and they work great. I would guess that it probably would limit you at multiple tubes, but I'm going to be trying it with two submini tubes in due course. The submini tubes I have are rated for maximum current draw of 100ma each, where as the 12A#7 tubes, I believe, are 400ma each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil. Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 oh hai jaemsz. One print down, four to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerd herd Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Possibly a stupid question - I'm trying to make a MIDI file to control my Whammy DT with Cubase, so if I want it to change settings do I need to put the bypass program change number for the setting that's on (-1 oct) in the MIDI list editor at the same time as the active number for the next setting (+1 oct)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 They can be very very tight. Just give it more force. So, the Allen key snapped in the machine head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james90 Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Guess that advice doesn't work for everything. Were all of the machine heads like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 They're all pretty stuck, so surely it's something I'm missing? But I legitimately cannot turn them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaicen Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Did you lubricate? It's always a good idea before inserting your little tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Nah, but I was working up to it for a while so presumed it would just be fine, but now I've ended up in this slightly embarrassing situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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